Last Revised October 13th

Colors Lyrics And Song Previews

Colors

Initially teased on September 12th in a Today at Apple promo and then in a preview of Colors’ deluxe vinyl edition, a “slime visualizer” for Colors’ title track was released on October 12th.

I’ll find you and go right through walls we made

I see you, I need you every day

It’s nothing, it’s your life

I don’t know why, can’t get what I want

But I keep, I keep trying

Found our way through the lost years

Now the day brings it all here

‘All the colors, see the colors

Feel the colors,’ she says

See it in your eyes

‘All the colors, see the colors

Feel the colors

Tell me, do you feel alive?’

I’ve got all the love you need

I’ve got all the love you need

Keep it with you

I don’t have the time to wait

I don’t have the time to way

I need to see you

Got it all under control

Got it all under control

You can’t hear me

Now it only hurts to know

Now it would only hurt to know

When you don’t need me

You don’t need me

Found our way

Now the day brings it all here

‘All the colors, see the colors

Feel the colors,’ she says

‘See it in your eyes

All the colors, see the colors

Feel the colors

Tell me, do you feel alive?’

Seventh Heaven

Described by Q as a “lost ’80s pop classic,” Rolling Stone calls ‘Seventh Heaven’ “a chiming anthem about falling in love.”

I want to see you with the pharaoh’s curse

The apple flower doggerel, the batteries burst

And I’m out in the city in the typical noise

With the suntan ellipse and the filigree of energy

What you want and what you need

Now I’m down on my knees with a pocket full of widows

You can do it down here what you never did there

When you feel so untethered from the broken veneer

Don’t tell nobody I’m here

Don’t tell nobody I’m here



Now I’m far from the world

In your seventh heaven

Now I’m far from the world

In your seventh heaven

Now you got to let me know

Or you got to let me go

I’m gonna take it with me

I’m gonna take it down

A second language, a burden of hope

I’ve seen it all come clean like a guillotine rose

A photograph, a low life laugh

We’ll shoot for the empire, land in the dust pile

I want to wake up in the shadow of a fever pitch

With the gold glass heart sending messages

I hear the voice over the phone, she pauses

Says ‘I’ll never, never, never go’

Oh can I stay here with you?

Oh can I stay here with you?



Now I’m dead to the world

In your seventh heaven

Now I’m dead to the world

In your seventh heaven

Now you gotta let me know

Or you got to let me go

Yea you got to let me know

Or you got to let me go

I’m gonna take it with me

Someday there might be something better

You can change your mind but you can’t forget her

Someday there might be something better

You can change your mind but you can’t forget her

So let it rise to the highest high in the satellite sky

So let it rise to the highest high in the satellite sky

Up to the seventh heaven

To your seventh heaven

So let it rise, rise, rise to the highest height in the satellite sky

Now I’m starting to fall

From your seventh heaven

Now you gotta let me know

Or you got to let me go

Love a love a love a love

I’m So Free

I’m on a tangent

Textbook ephemeral

Facts are confusing me

I’m so free now

I’m on a one-man waiting list

I’m bored again

I buried all my memories

I’m so free now

I see the silhouette of everything

I thought I ever knew

Turning into voodoo

I’m so free now

A panic cycle, sentimental

Feel it out until you know

It wasn’t meant for you

I’m so free now

I’m so free now

I’m so free now

And the way that I walk

Is up to me now

And if I breathe now

I could scream now

You can hear me

From Topeka to Belize now

I’m gonna freeze out

These enemies out

They never see what I got

No need to bend my knees down

Heaven forbid

Time is running out

Nothing new under the sun

Better get down

I’m so free

Free from me

Free from you

Who am I supposed to be

In the middle of the day

With no good connection?

I’m so free now

They try to keep me down

With affliction

Alpha male fell asleep in the engine

I’m so free now

A horizontal aspiration

In the basement

With a digital lust for life

I’m so free now

I coin the phrase of the realm

Let it roll into the street

Like a token of sweet nothing

I’m so free now

I’m so free now

I’m so free now

And the way that I walk

Is up to me now

And if I breathe now

I could scream now

You can hear me

From Topeka to Belize now

I’m gonna freeze out

These enemies out

They never see what I got

No need to bend my knees down

Heaven forbid

Time is running out

Nothing new under the sun

Better get down

I’m so free

I’m so free now

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Hey nobody’s going to keep me down

Nobody’s going to keep me down

Nobody’s going to keep me down

Gonna do, gonna do, gonna do what we want

I don’t want to go

I don’t want to go

I don’t want to go down

Gonna do, gonna do, gonna do what we want

I’m so free

I’m so free now

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Dear Life

“Leave it to Beck to craft a sunny, upbeat pop song that doubles as a scream into the void,” Marc Hogan writes of ‘Dear Life’ for Pitchfork. Described by The New York Times as “a late-Beatles-esque existential cry,” Q calls it a “lush Beatles-like psychedelia spiked with an existential cry-for-help for a lyric.”

You sang your swan song to the dogs

As they made mincemeat of the dreams you hung your hopes on

So if you counted out what your sins cost

While money talks to your conscience

Working like a fool for love

Dear Life, I’m holding on

Dear Life, I’m holding on

How long must I wait before the thrill is gone?

You drove your Rolls into the swamp

Stole away like a thief reeling from the sticker shock

Of the price they put upon your soul

You’d buy it back from the burning ashes

Of the devil you know

Dear Life, I’m holding on

Dear Life, I’m holding on

How long must I wait before the thrill is gone?

Dear Life, come and pick me up

Dear Life, I think the button is stuck

Dear Life, I think it’s gone too far

Dear Life, please lower the bar lower than the stars

Dear Life, I’m holding on

Dear Life, I’m holding on

How long must I wait before the thrill is gone?

No Distraction

Described by Rolling Stone as “a dance-y, Talking Heads-like stomp,” Q calls ‘No Distraction’ a “a self-help cry in the face of 21st century overload.” Gary Calamar world premiered “No Distraction” on the September 3rd episode of his KCRW show.

It’s not the words I want to tell you

It’s not the tension that I feel

It’s not the face that I’m showing you today

That betrays the way, the way I want to feel

What I need, what I need, what I need right now

Is right here, right in front of me

What I need, what I need, what I need right now

Is right here, right in front of me

A million times, a million thoughts

I really don’t know what I want

But then I see you, now I’m almost lost

And everything that I know went wrong

And if it means that it’s done and I’m a fool

But I don’t want to forget what we’ve been through

Just to save us both from what we knew

Losing our way, sometimes, it’s cruel

No distraction, no distraction

Can I, can I be with you?

No distraction, no distraction

Can I, can I be with you?

Pull you to the left, pull you the right

Pull you in all directions

Pull you to the left, pull you the right

Pull you in all directions

It’s not the objects that I hold in my possession

It’s not the worldly things that shine

Sometimes the worst will come and bring us back together

Well, hold me up and get me through the night

What I need, what I need, what I need right now

Is all right, right in front of me?

What I need, what I need, what I need right now

Is you – you, only you and me

A million times, a million thoughts

And I really don’t know what I want

But then I see you, then I’m almost lost

In everything that I know went wrong

And if it means that it’s done and I’m a fool

When I want to forget what we’ve been through

Just to save us both from what we knew

Losing our way, sometimes it’s cruel

No distraction, no distraction

Can I, can I be with you?

No distraction, no distraction

Can I, can I be with you?

Pull you to the left, pull you the right

Pull you in all directions

Pull you to the left, pull you the right

Pull you in all directions

I’m losing time

I’m losing time

There’s so many ways

To live or love or die

I’m losing time

I’m losing time

I’ve wanted to know

Are you still on the line?

Wasting time trying to prove things

Instead of proving my love

I’m losing, I’m losing my mind

A million times, a million thoughts

And now I really know what I want

But then I see you, I’m almost lost

In everything that I know went wrong

If it means that it’s done and I’m a fool

Don’t want to forget what we’ve been through

Just to save us both from what we knew

Losing our way, sometimes it’s cruel

No distraction, no distraction

Can I, can I be with you?

No distraction, no distraction

Can I, can I be with you?

Pull you to the left, pull you the right

Push you in all directions

Pull you to the left, pull you the right

Push you in all directions

Dreams (Colors Mix)

The single version of “Dreams” (mixed by Serban Ghenea) was released in June 2015. Coverage from that release is here. The unreleased mix that appears on the album (mixed by Beck and Greg Kurstin) is 18 seconds shorter. Both can be streamed below:

Come on out of your dreams

And wake up from your reverie

The time is here, don’t go to sleep

Streets are running on the brink

They say that we’ve got nothing

But a dollar for a life of sin

‘Cause there’s trouble on the way

Oh there’s trouble on the way

Get a dog and pony for a judgment day

Here we are running circles

Around and round and round and round

When nothing’s right, just close your eyes

Close your eyes and you’re gone

Dreams

She’s making me high

She’s making me high

Dreams

She’s making me high

I want to get me free

Nothing gonna get me in my world

Now can these broken wings free me

About a light year from reality

If you want to fall in a dream

You can put the weight right on to me

Here we are running circles

Around and round and round and round

When nothing’s right, just close your eyes

Close your eyes and you’re gone

Dreams

She’s making me high

She’s making me high

Dreams

She’s making me high

I want to get me free

Nothing gonna get me in my world

Nothing gonna get me in my world

Ahh stop fucking with my dreams

Ahh stop fucking with my dreams

Ahh here we are running circles

Around and round and round and round

When nothing’s right, just close your eyes

Close your eyes and you’re gone

Dreams

She’s making me high

She’s making me high

Dreams

All day and all night

I want to get me free

Nothing gonna get me in my world

I want to get me free

Nothing gonna get me in my world

Wow

Released in June 2016, coverage from that time is here. “Wow” was also released with a Mexican Institute of Sound remix (not on Colors).

Giddy up!

Wanna move into a fool’s gold room

Swimming pools full of animal jewels

All the rules that you choose to use to get loose

With the luminous moves

Bored of these limits

Let me get, let me get it like wow

It’s like right now

It’s my life, your life

Live it once, can’t live it twice

So nice, so nice

Smooth like a tidal wave

Take you on a getaway

My friends, your friends

Living every day like it’s just about to end

Now we’re pissing in the wind ’cause it’s so pinefresh

Right now, yea I want to get it like…

Wow

It’s like right now

It’s like wow

It’s like…

Giddy up

It’s your life

Falling like a hot knife

Call your wife

Secular times, these times

My demons on the cellphone to your demons

Nothing’s even right or wrong

It’s irrelevant, elephant in the room (goes boom)

Standing on your lawn doing jujitsu

Girl in a bikini with the Lamborghini shih tzu

It’s your life

You gotta try to get it right

Look around, don’t forget where you came from

It’s just another perfect night

We’re gonna take it around the world

We’re gonna take it around the world

Ride these wild horses

Ride these wild horses

We’re gonna take it around the world

Wow

Giddy up

Wow what a beautiful day

Up All Night

When you get the rhythm and words all make you cold

When you break it down and this world is all you know

Hands up, you’re working it round, now get yourself together

When you call the dominoes fall, it’s time to go

Now I’m feeling so far away

I see the colors and all the kids going home

Night is crawling up to the day

Hear the noise ringing

The sirens all singing:

I just wanna stay up all night with you

Just wanna stay up all night with you

There’s nothing I wouldn’t rather do

Just wanna stay up all night with you

Keep on moving

Don’t wait for nothing now

Keep on moving

Don’t wait for nothing now

Keep on moving

Don’t wait, don’t wait for nothing now

I’ll keep on moving

Don’t wait for nothing now, nothing now

One two what you doing?

I’ve been jumping through some hoops

Want to get my body loose

Want to tell you, tell you what to do

I’ve been running on a wheel

Like an animal struggling

Looking for the diamond

I’m trying, I’m fighting

Right into the rhythm now

Just want to stay up all night with you

Stay up all night

Just want to stay up all night with you

There’s nothing that I wouldn’t rather do

Then stay up all night

Just want to stay up all night with you

Put it up in the air

If you don’t really care

Let them know that you’re there

If you got the time to take it up there

Hands up in the air

Living out on a prayer

Let them know that you’re there

If you got the time to take it up there

Up all night with you

With you

With you

Square One

Square One extends themes of the album’s previous song, “Up All Night” (specifically the line “I’ve been running the lights in the city” from “I’ve been running on a wheel” in the prior song).

I’ve been watching the wheels turning

But I’m learning to enjoy the ride on the road to nowhere

I hope we get there soon ’cause it’s a place we’ve been before

Knocking on purgatory’s door to find a place in the sun

A chameleon changing colors on demand

‘Cause this is life and it’s alright

Taking detours in your mind

You’ll be fine if you try

To keep your eyes on the consolation prize

When you lower your expectations

And you’ve run out of patience

It’s all a part of the plan when you’re lost in the world

And you’re going down hard for the girl

I’ve been running the lights in the city

Saying ‘who can I be running from?’

My demons told my skeletons ‘he won’t get very far’

And when I got to the dark side of the moon

All the trouble I thought I knew, it left me out in the cold

Spinning out of control on a broken carousel

Now tell me this is life and it’s alright

Chasing windmills in your mind

You’ll be fine if you try

To keep your eyes on the consolation prize

On the road to tomorrow

Gonna have to beg, steal, or borrow

It’s all a part of the plan when you’re dead to the world

And you’re going down hard for the girl

For the girl

For the girl

For the girl

For the girl

See you on the other side of love all alone

Sooner or later at the end of the world

See you on the other side of love all alone

Sooner or later at the end of the world

‘Cause this is life and it’s alright

Taking detours in your mind

You’ll be fine if you try

To keep your eyes on the consolation prize

On the road to Valhalla

Karma riding shotgun with drama

It’s all a part of the plan when you’re lost in the world

And you’re going down hard for the girl

Fix Me

Colors’ closing track reprises a theme established early in the album on “I’m So Free” and is one of six songs on the album to refer to the night. It world premiered on KCRW on Labor Day weekend.

You might fix me

You might crush me

Take a little piece of me

Start a new history

And trace it back to me

Someday you might see

That I want you

I want you

I want you

Oh I want you

I don’t mind if the sea washes over the city tonight

Tonight

The ground is hollow

The dark skies follow

And you don’t know where you’ve gone

Branches on the trees have arms

The moon is a false alarm

Nothing’s gonna do you harm

Except yourself

I want you

I want you

I want you

Yea I want you

I don’t mind if the sea washes over the city tonight

Tonight

I’m set free

Colors Tracklist

– CD and Digital Editions

Track Writer Producer Mix Length 1. “Colors” Beck -Beck

-Greg Kurstin Serban Ghenea 4:21 2. “Seventh Heaven” Beck -Beck

-Greg Kurstin Serban Ghenea 5:00 3. “I’m So Free” Beck -Beck

-Greg Kurstin Serban Ghenea 4:07 4. “Dear Life” -Beck

-Greg Kurstin -Beck

-Greg Kurstin Serban Ghenea 3:44 5. “No Distraction” Beck -Beck

-Greg Kurstin Serban Ghenea 4:32 6. “Dreams”

(Colors mix) -Beck

-Andrew Wyatt

-Greg Kurstin -Beck

-Greg Kurstin -Beck

-Greg Kurstin 4:56 7. “Wow” -Beck

–Cole M. Greif-Neill -Beck

–Cole M.G.N. Serban Ghenea 3:40 8. “Up All Night” -Beck

-Greg Kurstin -Beck

-Greg Kurstin -Beck

-Greg Kurstin 3:10 9. “Square One” Beck -Beck

-Greg Kurstin Serban Ghenea 2:55 10. “Fix Me” Beck Beck Serban Ghenea 3:13 45 : 22

Deluxe Edition Bonus Track Track Writer Producer Mix Length 11. “Dreams” -Beck

-Andrew Wyatt -Greg Kurstin -Beck

-Greg Kurstin Serban Ghenea 5:14

Colors Tracklist

– Single LP Vinyl And Cassette Editions

Side A

1. Colors

2. Seventh Heaven

3. I’m So Free

4. Dear Life

5. No Distraction

Side B

6. Dreams (Colors Mix)

7. Wow

8. Up All Night

9. Square One

10. Fix Me

Colors Tracklist

– Double LP Vinyl Editions

Side A

1. Colors

2. Seventh Heaven

3. I’m So Free

Side B

1. Dear Life

2. No Distraction

Side C

1. Dreams (Colors Mix)

2. Wow

3. Up All Night

Side D

1. Square One

2. Fix Me

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