"What Does Blue Mean To You?" lyrics - CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT

What does blue mean to you?
And what can yellow do for you?
And how do two patches of orange
On a dark and dreary quilt change your life?
Feed your need
Your hunger for color

When will green come into view?
A sunlit and shimmering pasture wet with dew
An emerald far in the distance
That we've been galloping to
Barefoot and bloody
Winded and tired and sweaty

A black buzzard follows us
Gleefully smelling our dawning detritus
We hide in a cornfield caressing
Converging, concealing ourselves with gold
To burnish our bristling souls
Two kernels that cannot be sold

[Bass solo]

What does red mean to you
When all that you've hoped for is dead?
When there's so much unfixable pain
And your only dream is a velvet ribbon
A ribbon the color of blood
Blood, blood, blood
Of blood
Of blood

[Outro:]
Glowing embers long after a fire has gone out
Glowing embers, the heat remains and burns