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
