Colour Never Hurt
from Desync (Deluxe Edition) by James Paddock
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"Colour Never Hurt"
Perhaps the most overtly political track on the entire album, here I comment on the state of race politics, particularly in America.
Across the world we have governments that pledge to protect everyone, but continue to give preferential treatment to the already-privileged, and happily leave the less-so to die. This song targets those in power who refuse to do anything about this humanitarian schism and would rather allow it to proliferate amongst us, so they can continue to profit off of our anger and stay in seats of absolute power. Such is their level of power now that they can transparently violate more and more of our human rights and appear to face no consequences.
The lyric "Colour never hurt no one" carries a socio-political double meaning due to its use of a double negative: on the one hand, colour is a huge means of representation for the LGBTQIA+ community, a group that is consistently threatened by careful political erasure and societal division, despite being at its core a way for people to harmlessly identify themselves and their relationships each other; on the other, much more sinister hand, skin colour has ultimately led millions of people to be hurt - as well as marginalised, segregated, and killed - and so colour has, in this respect, hurt uncountable numbers of people.
The subversion of the final chorus is intended as a reference to the George Floyd situation - one of many instances in which those of colour have been simply left to die.
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Perhaps the most overtly political track on the entire album, here I comment on the state of race politics, particularly in America.
Across the world we have governments that pledge to protect everyone, but continue to give preferential treatment to the already-privileged, and happily leave the less-so to die. This song targets those in power who refuse to do anything about this humanitarian schism and would rather allow it to proliferate amongst us, so they can continue to profit off of our anger and stay in seats of absolute power. Such is their level of power now that they can transparently violate more and more of our human rights and appear to face no consequences.
The lyric "Colour never hurt no one" carries a socio-political double meaning due to its use of a double negative: on the one hand, colour is a huge means of representation for the LGBTQIA+ community, a group that is consistently threatened by careful political erasure and societal division, despite being at its core a way for people to harmlessly identify themselves and their relationships each other; on the other, much more sinister hand, skin colour has ultimately led millions of people to be hurt - as well as marginalised, segregated, and killed - and so colour has, in this respect, hurt uncountable numbers of people.
The subversion of the final chorus is intended as a reference to the George Floyd situation - one of many instances in which those of colour have been simply left to die.
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lyrics
Dirty-handed soul on high
Watching as your people cry
Laying low as you ignite
One more token line for the “right”
Show us your face before you go
(Face before you go)
True colours bleed tonight
All over you
Is there no way to spill the truth?
(No way to spill the truth?)
True colours fade tonight
Black melts away to white, yeah yeah
Wash your hands of this disgrace
Still the blood drips down your face
Red ink running as you write
One more line right through our rights
So many rights
Show us your face before you go
(Face before you go)
True colours bleed tonight
All over you
Is there no way to spill the truth?
(No way to spill the truth?)
True colours fade tonight
Black melts away to white
A little dash of bolder tones
Couldn’t pain the world
Colour never hurt no one
Watch us while we paint the world, yeah
The life you live is lustreless
Tar yourself with a dead brush
How in the hell is there the time
To be drunk on hatred’s wine?
(Yeah)
Show us his face before you go
(Face before you go)
True colours bled tonight
All over you
Is there no way to spill the truth?
(No way to spill the truth?)
True colours died tonight
Black knelt before the white
Watching as your people cry
Laying low as you ignite
One more token line for the “right”
Show us your face before you go
(Face before you go)
True colours bleed tonight
All over you
Is there no way to spill the truth?
(No way to spill the truth?)
True colours fade tonight
Black melts away to white, yeah yeah
Wash your hands of this disgrace
Still the blood drips down your face
Red ink running as you write
One more line right through our rights
So many rights
Show us your face before you go
(Face before you go)
True colours bleed tonight
All over you
Is there no way to spill the truth?
(No way to spill the truth?)
True colours fade tonight
Black melts away to white
A little dash of bolder tones
Couldn’t pain the world
Colour never hurt no one
Watch us while we paint the world, yeah
The life you live is lustreless
Tar yourself with a dead brush
How in the hell is there the time
To be drunk on hatred’s wine?
(Yeah)
Show us his face before you go
(Face before you go)
True colours bled tonight
All over you
Is there no way to spill the truth?
(No way to spill the truth?)
True colours died tonight
Black knelt before the white
credits
from Desync (Deluxe Edition),
released September 9, 2022
Additional personnel:
Kevin Martins - additional guitar
Additional personnel:
Kevin Martins - additional guitar
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James Paddock England, UK
Composer, singer, artist, and video game developer.
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