Heartland

What is "Colours" about?

Revenge always comes back, and in the end, one person or another will be carried away, buried deep underground, with a coffin covered in their military or national colours.

Dark wrote:Revenge always comes back, and in the end, one person or another will be carried away, buried deep underground, with a coffin covered in their military or national colours.

That's beautiful man. You've made me right emotional. Sniff.

It could also be about an aboriginal tracker - hearing the approaching English approaching his village. Yet, he knows in time, the last laugh will be on them.

why do you think the song is about revenge?
for me it just states that you are responible for your deeds and that everything you do gets back to you in some way,
revenge is comprised in that.
causality

Céleste wrote:why do you think the song is about revenge?
for me it just states that you are responible for your deeds and that everything you do gets back to you in some way,
revenge is comprised in that.
causality

Isn't that revenge in some way too?

Like: You did something to me, and I will damn well get you...

yeah,somehow,but its also that you got to take the onsequences of your deeds in general!
for instance; if i dont go to work,i ll get fired someday.
action- reaction
thats it, can be applied in every case

karma -a perfectly acceptable form of "revenge" is simply watching people get their just desserts.

give 'em enough rope...as the saying goes.

"You reap what you sow" = Just you wait, you'll get yours...

the usual theme - us & them. Biker's colours,gang colours, national colours, true colours.

JAMES RAY wrote:the usual theme - us & them. Biker's colours,gang colours, national colours, true colours.

...white collars, prank callers... etc...

IZ.

Excuse the thread necro (I always figure it's better than starting a new thread)... but I happened to be jamming along to Thin Lizzy's "Emerald" today, and the line jumped out at me:

"Down from the glen came the marching men
With their shields and their swords"

Now, the concept of "marching men" is hardly particularly unusual, of course, but still... I'd not be at all surprised if Von had borrowed from the song, given his known penchant for metal - and for me part of the appeal of the Sisters is all the little borrowings and allusions. (I think Eldritch referred to them as "lyrical time-bombs" or similar in an interview once, although I've no idea where I'm remembering that from..)

I always figured he'd had the misfortune of slipping down the wrong Leeds side-street in a Manchester United scarf and bumped into a bunch of Marching Men, ie Leeds fans. Maybe too literal a reading of the lyric but it fits very conveniently.

Planet Dave wrote: ↑28 Feb 2023, 17:17 I always figured he'd had the misfortune of slipping down the wrong Leeds side-street in a Manchester United scarf and bumped into a bunch of Marching Men, ie Leeds fans. Maybe too literal a reading of the lyric but it fits very conveniently.

I also took it to be dirty Leeds marching on together.