At the end of 2009 I had the chance to write the lyrics to the music. This basically meant that I had to “find” the melody and to adapt the lyrics to it. I loved the experience, all the more so because I had to sing it, as well. The composer is based in Russia, and alas, the fruits of this collaboration are yet to ripen. But the lyrics are already written, and I thought it would make no harm posting the text here.
Love Is the Colour of You
And so I fly away again.
I get up early and take the plane
And it will take me far away,
To the land of summer and no rain.
I love the colours of distant lands,
The purple mountains and yellow sands,
But there is just one precious colour
That I cannot find…
It is the colour of you
When I see you in my dreams.
Baby, I know it’s you
But I’m yet to find you here.
I catch your rare shades
In the glow of sunrise.
Baby, you must be there,
For I can see your eyes,
For I can feel your skin,
For you’re already in,
Deeper than anything.
And I have been drawing and drawing
You in my notebooks, forever drawing,
So that you get closer and closer,
So that I can hold you, and hold you.
Love is the colour of you
That nobody knows but me.
Everything that I do
Carries your shade in it.
I see it through the smoke,
I feel it in the rain,
But maybe with the snow
Here will you come and stay.
Baby, I know you will come true.
There’ll be a day when I wear the colour of you.
© Julia Shuvalova 2009
Image credit: MILAN