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Counting Crows - Colorblind
Saturday, August 9, 2003
When I hear this song, I don’t know why, but I just cry. I only need to hear the first notes and my eyes fill up with tears. Maybe it’s because it reminds me of Cruel Intentions, one of my favourite movies; maybe it’s because, in the end, I am someone who’s more often sad than happy, I have this big chunk of sadness in me which will never go away. That thing that makes me to cry even when I don’t need to, that thing that makes me think so much and makes me see things this way... Who knows? My mum often tells me how she used to be a very melancholic girl when she was my age; maybe I got it from her. Mmh. What I always ask myself, am I unique in my own way, or is there someone else in this world who sees things exactly like me? How different are we really from each other? All of us in this world... There must be a girl, somewhere, who’s thinking the same things I think... Or not? I always ask myself these questions that have no answer and they won’t ever have an answer, how sad is it.
Well, anyway, I’ve been in my usual “weird” mood in the past couple of days, don’t really know why. Everything seems so blurry again, and it’s weird how London seems so far away in time right now, I mean, how my year in London seems to be ages away, years instead of months... And I know it’ll become only more blurry as time goes by, and I know it’s never going to be true because it was too special, but I feel like, one day, it’s going to be lost forever. All the feelings, the things I’ve done, the mistakes, the successes, and just all the ordinary things, they might just disappear one day, I might forget... I know it won’t happen, I know, but the only thought of it is scary, that things last for such a short time and we just forget about them, and time passes and we don’t even know what we did anymore.
I like to write like this, freely, without really connecting things together, just putting words down as they come out from my little, crazy head. Sometimes I wish I was a good writer, someone who can write properly, and make people feel what I feel and really understand what I mean... Can you learn to write like that? I don’t think so, I think it’s something you are born with, the ability to share feelings with people, through writing or anything else...
So, I am leaving the house tomorrow (I am writing this before going to sleep and I will post it tomorrow). It’s always hard to leave places you love, isn’t it? Even if something better is coming up, and for me there are loads of good things coming up, so good oh yes so good... But it’s sad to leave this room, because I really do love it. Well, anyway, I probably won’t be able to post much for the next 10 days... It sounds like my little week in Croatia is going to be so nice, going around and sleeping on beaches, something I’ve never done in my life! I can be such a little spoiled brat... :)
Anyway, I wish you all two really good weeks! I’ll be back in Paris on the 22nd, and then I’ll start packing again... Exciting and boring at the same time, lol! But well, in the end this Summer went faster than what I thought, and I even tanned a bit! Kekeke.
I’m gonna fight them off, a seven nation army couldn’t hold me back... (well, yeah, I don’t really know if he says that in the song, but fuck it, I felt like writing it down, I love this song, reminds me of one afternoon, the Duck & Dive in ULU, Freddie & James...)
[edit] Hey, think of me on the 16th! Please? It's my birthday, we're gonna party like it's my birthday! Well, yeah... Right, whatever. [/edit]
Posted by Vanina | 12:42 | Comments (26)
26 Comment(s)
PatrickFromGermany said:
hello, if anyone here reads this and i hope,, i think just like u, i love this song, everytime i hear it i have to start crying, its reminding me from my parents divorce and all my life, i hope i can contact yours anyhow/anyways anytime, i love this song, know i searched for the notes on piano on internet and found this site, i am ready... i am... greets patrick

mb said:
is this song played in the movie when they are having sex?

elisah said:
hi, colorblind is amazing! once, i had a relationship with the most wonderful boy imaginable, but for some dark reason, we broke up.. Colorblind was our song, and everytime i hear it, i feel that love for him again and again... why did i let him go?? however, i don't quite understand the meaning of the lyrics: i am colorblind: what does he mean with that? The part of: i'm covered in skin, noone gets to come in, ... is sth i understand better, but plz could someone help me?

Chris said:
Great movie, Great song! I'm with you guys....you hear it and you're just like "Damn.....this hits"

briana said:
I love colorblind. It's a great song. And Happt late birthday, by the way. I'm posting this as of 2004. Even though it was written over a year ago.

D said:
Someone PLEASE explain the lyrics of the song!

annabel said:
all you people are amazing. all these comments touch me in freaky ways and immactulately describe exactly my feelings. i find it hard to belive and it only makes me feel even deeper about the song. its strange...dont you think we are all strange? it is just a song - by the ledgends counting crows who made it, but it simply gets to us and jerks the tears from our eyes, jerks our hearts out of place for a moment. while we dwell but seem to like the feeling of simply getting a good cry out of our system...perfect.

Becca said:
I cannot find a site where you can listen to the entire song either.....If anyone knows please post.

Tha Don U2K said:
Well let me be the first to give my short info about me: male/22/hollywood ca/real name: shawn vegas, alias: u2k. now, colorblind is my one of my fav songs of all times. And yes, i do cry when i listen to it, only because GOD is with me, and something about that song is righteous. So if anyone else do infact cries over that song, do not worry , i tell you that THis is the Power of GOD, GOD is righteous in all his ways....

Ricardo Soto P. said:
I just dont know, but this song is absolutly deep, altough the lyric`s so simple but it says ALLLLL. simply is my favorite song and it send me alone in my life

kristen said:
music is probably one of the most important things in the world to me. "Colorblind" is like one of those songs that brings everything out of you when you're listening to it. It reminds me of this time imperfect by afi. i don't know what i would do without these type of songs. i have many ways of expressing myself through writing and art and all but sometimes i just need songs to express things for me, so i can just know that what i'm feeling is real. the song colorblind does remind me of cruel intentions but that's not what i think about when i listen to it. and to the first posting, i think that everyone thinks that way sometime in their life. ya know, that they don't know if anyone's feeling the same way they are. as much as i would like my feelings to be really original, i've found that they're not. i don't think i see things black and white. in fact i think my views alternate a lot, but hearing that makes me feel that someday im going to be so miserable that i will be colorblind, and nothing will matter. once i thought that if i didn't have this guy i was in love with but we broke up several times, i would eventually end up going crazy someday. but i got over him. he caused me a lot of trouble. but i've realized he's not my identity, and i dont want him to be. my sadness about him went on for an extremely long time. now i am just plain sad. but it doesnt matter, as long as i have what i need, which is music.

natalia said:
well i can really relate to all you people.. i fell in love over the summer..and he broke my heart..and i have never been the same..this song makes me think about all the times we've shared..and how in love i really was. but come to find out.. i was the only one. i sit in my room and cry myself to sleep everynight. this is may..and we broke up in august. i'll never get over it.. this song carries me through all the memories and that one night..the one night i lost it all..all my dignity, and all my self belief down the drain. we were listening to this song when it happened..and oh god, did it ever feel right. thanks.

kate said:
Music has a way of reaching us all in a way we never thought imaginable. As far as wondering if there's anyone else out there, the fact that there are this many responses to that post should in fact say it all. Ya know that part in Armageddon? "You think there's anybody else in the world doin this very same thing at this very same moment" "I hope so otherwise what the hell are we trying to save?" There's always SOMEONE out there who may not know exactly what you feel, but who had had the same damn feeling before no matter how much you don't want to believe it. There's always someone somewhere. There's a reason for everything. Certainly a reason why so many people have found the song "colorblind." I must say: kudos to the artist. This piece has stirred the soul of an unfathomable number.

claire said:
hmm.. that last comment? but neway I absolutely love colorblind. like someone else said its just one of those songs u hear it and your heart breaks like this song is about u. And cruel intentions is like the best movie ever! i love the song bittersweet symphony at the end of the movie. It gives me chills!

heleni said:
i just came across your cite and read it..i was just wondering,,,what happend in england?ibecause you sound sad about the whole thing and it reminds me of a quote i once read:happiness isn't something you experience,it s something you remember.. kisses

Alan said:
I guess it says something of the song if people add comments so late after the initial posting. It was for the beginning of my day somewhere at the back of my mind. I couldn't quite identify it by lunch time, and by late evening I found myself searching for it on the internet. After listening to it, once, then once more, and then I don't know how many more times, I, like everyone else it seems, began to cry. Now I really wanted to, it'd been some time since I'd let go, and you know how you always feel better after crying... There are some work's (be they paintings, movies or music) manage to burry deep within you, to the emotions that you keep neatly packaged and out of the way. These are sub-surface emotions and concerns, there in the back of your mind. Sometimes for a long time. Well, these works bring them to the surface and tear the neat wrapping off; and whatever it was that has been there, niggling at the back of you, is exposed to you new but still familiar. These work's don't give you something new to feel, they channel the things you are most concerned with at the time.

~geo~ said:
Hey guys! Well, I'd just like to say-I'm 13, saw this movie at 12, and FELL IN LOVE. What a romantic story! So sad though... I swear-any girl who sees that movie has to die right there on the spot. I mean really, Ryan is just amazing in it! Crazy, crazy, crazy. Just blows your mind doesn't it? Haha-I called my friend after watching it and told her how it changed me so. She laughed at me. I had no clue I was so left out for my age. Maybe-I thought, she was just more mature than the rest? Of course. She even owned the movie. Although I'm very young, I am mature-and I know that for a fact. And I have some advice: This movie is really not good for your mind. Although it is a very touching story of love, passion, and sex-it is not good to dwell on. Think of all the life you could be living instead of trying to surround yourself with the song: Colorblind, and the movie. I mean for months at least-I cried myself to sleep. Not knowing that this is only a movie. An imaginary tale in which these gorgeous people fall in love, and in the end it is forever broken. I forced myself to believe that I was in love~truly~with Ryan, and that someday I might even have a change with him. Yeah right-you think. But it's true. And I know each one of you that has written up there ^ in this column is living that life. A life of image. A life that is not real-but is just dwelling on the past, and things that have happened to you. You want this story to almost-involve you. Which-believe me it won't. Love to each and everyone of you. Remember-God is real. You know that. What you don't know is that other things are put in this place to distract you from Him. ~geo~

Emma said:
Colorblind is a song that creeps up behind me and then when i hear the opening bars hits me deep in my stomach. It is such a beautiful, moving song that makes me want to cry and sream at the same time. It freezes me to that one moment, making there and then the only thing that matters and i just stop and stare into space.......sounds a bit weird, but thats how i'd describe it. Anyway, I cant believe how similar my thoughts are to some of those above. I literally could have written most of them myself, crazy business. Well I quite usually cry, a tiny thing can start it and then i just cant stop and i dont really know why im crying, but i am. But yes, it seems as though somebody in the world somewhere is thinking the same thing as you, or has done at least. To believe in that is really quite comforting you know. But this "comment" is far too long already, so, "final thought": Counting Crows' Colorblind is magic.

johnny said:
it makes me sad because i wanna have a girlfriedn that weill love me and i will love her with all my heart and never want anyhting to happen to her. i wanan marry her and have a family and grow old together and die together. thats why this song makes me sad. cuz i want that more thna anything in the world.

Noelle said:
Colorblind...I know why that song speaks to me. Because it's what I want to be, but can't. It sings to my wishes and desires, and at that moment, I just can't escape what's inside.

Hannah said:
I love that song. and I can so relate to you. I was thinking 2 if anyone out there cryed at this song an get really upset every time they here it.

Lindsay said:
I know what you mean about colorblind, I often listen to it before I go to bed and cry myself to sleep. I seem to be sad all the time lately and have no clue as to why. I have an somewhat easy life, but I seem to be miserable all the time. So I guess the answer to your question is yes, there are people in the world who feel like you. You are not alone.

Crystal said:
Hey!! This song rules! The first time I heard it at my friends house on Cruel Intentions I was ballin' out tears. But ever since then everytime I go over to her house, I run up stairs and say"I 've gotta hear that song".

ghislaine said:
First of all, sorry for my english 'cause I'm french, and I don't speak fluently english...but... I understand what you explain and what you fell inside yourself when you hear this song 'cause for me it's the same thing... I just close my eyes and somes details remind me...I fell so...melancholic, but so cool inside !! Which beautiful song isn't it ? Just close your eyes and, chutttttt it's coming ...

amnada said:
I know how you feel about the song..i listen to it everynight, and i cry. I dont know why i put myself through it but i dont know..it just one of those songs

Kyoko said:
I was reading the first paragraph of your entry, thinking about how much you thought like me, and then you say: "...is there someone else in the world who sees things exactly like me?" Very amusing. Happy birthday, by the way.

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