Yellow and Rose
Shifting Colors: Embracing Change and Transformation
Lyrics
Yellow and rose, yellow and rose, yellow and rose.
Repetition of "Yellow and rose" suggests a prominent theme or metaphor in the song.
Oh boy, Botany Bay, watching the water go by.
Reference to Botany Bay, observing the flow of life or time.
Here's your home so far away,
Home is distant, emphasizing separation or longing.
Here is a tear for your eye.
Expressing empathy or sadness, offering a tear for someone's sorrow.
Here is a vast and unknown land,
Describing an unfamiliar, expansive land with strangers on the shore.
Here are the strangers on the sand.
-Oh, seeds of the universe ever endeavor to grow.
Philosophical reflection on the growth and transformation of life represented by "seeds of the universe" turning "yellow and rose."
Tiny pieces of everything, into the water they go.
-Everything changes for the strangers on the shore.
-They are blue and green no more,
-They are yellow and rose.
-Down under got the south side,
Portraying the unique and eccentric nature of the Earth, likened to a "groovy crazy planet."
This groovy crazy planet.
-Watching from the outside,
-It's as smooth as a gravy sandwich.
-People play music night for day,
Illustrating the diversity of people and their creative expressions.
One caught the sun in a sekere.
-Oh, seeds of the universe ever endeavor to grow.
Reiteration of the transformative process, emphasizing change from "blue and green" to "yellow and rose."
Tiny pieces of everything, into the water they go.
-Everything changes for the strangers on the shore.
-They are blue and green no more,
-They are yellow and rose.
-Remember when we thought we were in California?
Nostalgic reference to California, the eye of the hurricane, and a warning about returning to old patterns.
We thought it was the eye of the hurricane.
-Old gypsy woman she tried to warn you,
-"You'll be back this way again,
-Hungry for the rain,
-It's written in your hand, plain."
-Oh, seeds of the universe ever endeavor to grow.
Continuation of the theme of change and transformation in the universe and individuals.
Tiny pieces of everything, into the water they go.
-Everything changes for the strangers on the shore.
-They are blue and green no more,
-They are yellow and rose.
-Yellow and rose, yellow and rose, yellow and rose.
Repetition of "Yellow and rose" reinforces the central motif and possibly the cyclical nature of life.
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