Such a beautiful color you wear upon your skin
And a perfect shade of purple on a flower permanent
And I’m constantly reminded of a past that never bloomed
As I set behind these bars only silence fills the room
I’ve never been down this road before
As the days go by I only miss you more
I thought one day we would touch the sky
Never grow up and never going to die
I never knew what you meant to me
Until I tried drowning out your memory
But it burns red like it’s not over
It only hurts when I’m sober
Such a beautiful color I wear upon my skin
And a perfect shade of purple on a flower permanent
And I’m constantly reminded of how I should have changed
And now I can’t stop thinking about the love that slipped away
It slipped away
I’ve never been down this road before
As the days go by I only miss you more
I thought one day we would touch the sky
Never grow up and never going to die
I never knew what you meant to me
Until I tried drowning out your memory
But it burns red like it’s not over
It only hurts when I’m sober
Your all that I ever wanted
Your all that I ever needed
And now I’m spending a lifetime
Drowning without you
I’m starting over and over again
Such a beautiful color you wear upon your skin
And a perfect shade of purple on a flower permanent
I’ve never been down this road before
As the days go by I only miss you more
I thought one day we would touch the sky
Never grow up and never going to die
I never knew what you meant to me
Until I tried drowning out your memory
But it burns red like it’s not over
It only hurts when I’m sober
I’ve never been down this road before
As the days go by I only miss you more
I thought one day we would touch the sky
Never grow up and never going to die
I never knew what you meant to me
Until I tried drowning out your memory
But it burns red like it’s not over
It only hurts when I’m sober
It only hurts when it’s over
And a perfect shade of purple on a flower permanent
And I’m constantly reminded of a past that never bloomed
As I set behind these bars only silence fills the room
As the days go by I only miss you more
I thought one day we would touch the sky
Never grow up and never going to die
I never knew what you meant to me
Until I tried drowning out your memory
But it burns red like it’s not over
It only hurts when I’m sober
And a perfect shade of purple on a flower permanent
And I’m constantly reminded of how I should have changed
And now I can’t stop thinking about the love that slipped away
It slipped away
As the days go by I only miss you more
I thought one day we would touch the sky
Never grow up and never going to die
I never knew what you meant to me
Until I tried drowning out your memory
But it burns red like it’s not over
It only hurts when I’m sober
Your all that I ever needed
And now I’m spending a lifetime
Drowning without you
I’m starting over and over again
And a perfect shade of purple on a flower permanent
As the days go by I only miss you more
I thought one day we would touch the sky
Never grow up and never going to die
I never knew what you meant to me
Until I tried drowning out your memory
But it burns red like it’s not over
It only hurts when I’m sober
As the days go by I only miss you more
I thought one day we would touch the sky
Never grow up and never going to die
I never knew what you meant to me
Until I tried drowning out your memory
But it burns red like it’s not over
It only hurts when I’m sober
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Nice song!
The song itself is about a man that has lost the love of his life to the way he treated them when they were together. be it a metaphorical prison he has put himself in due to their breakup, or a literal jail cell that he has ended up in because of his regrettable actions toward them, he'll never get a chance to be with them ever again, because he blew his chances with them and has to live with it. It eventually takes trying to lose himself in narcotics like alcohol to truly realize that this person meant the world to him, as his pain can only fade when he cannot feel anything at all anyway.
To me, however, this song takes a similar, but ultimately more personal meaning. A woman I sadly never got a chance to be romantically involved with, yet was on the edge of that line for a number of times for a number of years, once told me her favorite color was Purple. I gave my heart to a person that did not want it, and that pain manifested in the tone of this song. Like the singer states in the song, I never truly realized how strong my infatuation, my love, my desire for this woman was until I sat alone in my bar drinking myself till I could not feel anything physically or emotionally, pouring those feelings into the bottom of a bottle. Instead of thinking to myself that I should have changed to better a relationship slowly turning sour, I kept reminding myself that if I had changed, maybe my feelings would have been reciprocated, as those who are denied their love typically think.