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Colours of Her Mind
Album: The World Seems Happy...
A love song about an Aussie girl I met in Europe and although the love story never went further than a colourful European fantasy, this song has travelled with me all over the world and is the most requested song I’ve ever written.
A story of how the bright clothes she wore would match her moods. I secretly believed that this was also how she wanted me to feel… a romantic and mysterious way of encouraging me to connect with her. A quirky daydream that inspired a song I love to sing.
During my worldwide busking adventures, I could guarantee myself a meal every time I sang this song. A wealthy Frenchmen heard me singing it on the street and invited me into his friends café in Normandie but insisted I sing it for him again and again. I sang the same song for 16 hours that day as he, me and the song slowly got memorably smashed.
Colours of Her Mind :: Lyrics
Words and music by Johnnie McCarthy (1990) Copyright
Have you seen her dressed in red
The bright colour goes to my head
And I wonder
What she's trying to say
Have you seen her on the street
The crystal cool look
She gives each time we meet
Says nothing, of how she feels today
CHORUS The colours of her mind it seems
They reflect her mood
And her thoughts of me
She uses them to control my life
It's her rainbow love
And she lets it shine over me
Have you seen her act and mime
She can fake it oh anytime
But she wont believe, that beauty is in vein
Have you seen her dress in grey
Sad and silvery she loves it that way
For happiness, is a game that she wont play
CHORUS
Have you seen her on my mind
You surely will because
She's there all the time
Driving my calmer thoughts away
Have you seen her dressed in blue
To match her eyes and her feelings true
Well that's how she wants me to feel when I'm with her
Yeah that's how she wants me to be when I'm with her
CHORUS x 2
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