Colors

Album: Black Pumas (2019)
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  • I woke up to the morning sky first
    Baby blue, just like we rehearsed
    When I get up off this ground, I shake leaves back down
    To the brown, brown, brown, brown 'til I'm clean
    Then I walked where I'd be shaded by the trees
    By a meadow of green
    For about a mile
    I'm headed to town, town, town in style

    With all my favorite colors (yes, sir)
    All my favorite colors (right on)
    My sisters and my brothers see 'em like no other
    All my favorite colors

    It's a-good day to be, a good day for me
    A good day to see my favorite colors, colors
    My sisters and my brothers, they see 'em like no other
    All my favorite colors

    Now take me to the other side
    Where the baby blues birds fly
    In grey clouds, or white walls
    Or blue skies we gon' fly, feel alright
    Now we gon' ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, yeah
    Each time like ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, yeah
    And at least I can say I anticipate
    A homecome parade as we renegade in the morning light

    With all my favorite colors (yes sir)
    All my favorite colors (yes ma'am)
    My sisters and my brothers see 'em like no other
    All my favorite colors

    All my favorite colors (right)
    All my favorite colors (yes ma'am)
    My sisters and my brothers see 'em like no other
    All my favorite colors

    It's good day to be, a good day for me
    A good day to see my favorite colors, colors
    My sisters and my brothers, they see 'em like no other
    All my favorite colors Writer/s: Eric Stephon Burton
    Publisher: ME GUSTA MUSIC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Charles Smith Sr. from Knoxville, TennesseeBlack Pumas, please keep putting out music like Colors! This is a beautiful meaningful song! I just can't stop listening to it.
  • Kim Watkins from Hollywood Hills, CaDuring the riots in the summer of 2020 I was so confused and down on humanity on the Fourth of July that I spent on my balcony by myself, I turned to YouTube And this studio recording was suggested and I played it and it made me cry that such a beautiful song with such a unique guitar intro rhythm and voice and back up and all the other musicians... well it was able to bring the spirit Of real people, still existing, back to me. I appreciate this song like no other. If I were a judge for the Grammys it would have been the winner by a landslide.
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