Musicians Collaboration Studio
Virtual Music Studio => Finished Works => Topic started by: Donna on November 15, 2009, 04:56:58 PM
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OK, good people, some of you might have heard Val's dynamic rock version of this song. Here's Billy's gentle acoustic version. It has a definite folk-blues-gospel feel to it.
Hope you enjoy. :)
Donna
Music/Arrangement/Instruments: Billy Playle
Vocals: Billy Playle
Lyrics: Donna Devine
What Colour Is Love?
(v1 )
There's the grey fog of grief
Of the grim disbelief
When you've lost once again
What was dear to your heart
Or the steel-blue of pain
When the tears want to start
But...
Chorus
In the dark shades of night
When sleep has long gone
And thoughts overwhelm me
As the hours grind along
Can anyone tell me
What colour is love?
(v2)
There's the umber of sadness
Deep-space black of madness
Or white gold left behind
By stars that have died
Or the purple of violence
That so many will hide
Chorus
In the dark shades of night
When sleep has long gone
And thoughts overwhelm me
As the hours grind along
Can anyone tell me
What colour is love?
Bridge
Perhaps it's the mixed box of crayons
A lonely child holds in its hand
As it carefully fills in the contours
Of a family in fairytale land
(v3)
There's the beige of old-fashioned
Or the wine-red of passion
When blood starts to pound
And emotions run deep
Or the pearl-silver silence
As you watch a child sleep
But...
Chorus
In the dark shades of night
When sleep has long gone
And thoughts overwhelm me
As the hours grind along
Can anyone tell me
What colour is love?
Outro
Does love have a colour?
Or a sound we can sing?
And if love has a colour
Is it in Everything?
�2009 Donna Devine
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Simply beautiful Billy and so different from the last version. It just goes to show how lyrics can be spun in so many different ways.
You must be so proud of this Donna
Great stuff
Ian
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Donna and Billy,
What a sensitive beautiful arrangement.
Once again Billy you've showed your mastery over various musical genres. The musical treatment complements Donna's lyric perfectly.
Amazing!
Cheers
Andy
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Ian and Andy, thanks so much for giving this a listen and for commenting. :) Yes, I'm really proud of this song. I love how Billy has captured precisely the feeling and emotion that I'd envisaged.
Donna
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Donna/Billy:
Lovely, well done as usual.
Paul
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I think I heard the metal version of this song a while back - and did not like it at all. But this ballad version is GREAT! I really love it - both lyrics and performance.
Regards,
Steffen
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Paul, I appreciate you listening and commenting. :)
Steffen, I thought you'd like this. ;)
No, the other version was rock, definitely not heavy metal. ;) You might be confusing it with two other songs (H-M) I have up.
Donna
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I think then the other version must have been hard rock of the kind that I don't like. :P ;)
Just personal taste, nothing to do with the quality of the song. You know I'm a milksop! ;)
Regards,
Steffen