Lyric discussion by bobrivers 

Cover art for All My Colours lyrics by Echo and the Bunnymen

From book Turquoise Days, The weird world of E&TB (by Chris Adams). In an interview for MTV Online in 1995: MTV: What does 'Zimbo' mean? IAN: It's an anagram of 'mozib', an old African word MTV: What does 'mozib' mean? IAN: 'Zimbo'.

Again the same book. "Zimbo is about the loss of someone and the fact that people hold on to things that have already gone" - Ian McCulloch, 1981

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