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How Do You Depict Color?

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lyrics1 minjan 11, 2026
A woman standing in a black sea under a charcoal sky, no reflection, a faint silver rim of light on her outline
The same woman in a crimson dress in a blood-red sea under a red sky, a red glow at her chest
Black

Black as night
Black as my soul
No reflection left in the mirror
Just a shape I don’t control

Black is the color of darkness
When you’ve nowhere to go

Black as silence
Black as void
Black is the color
When you have nowhere to go

Black is the color of darkness
Where warmth goes to grow cold
Crowded with ghosts and maybes
And words you've never used

Black as night
Black as my soul
Black as silence
Black as void

Black...
Is where I made a home

Black is the color...
I disappear in

Before I lose control

Black as night
Black as my soul

A woman standing in a black sea under a charcoal sky, no reflection, a faint silver rim of light on her outline
Red

Red as blood
Red as my pulse
Every truth I never say
Burns just under my skull

Red is the color of love
When it cuts too deep

Red is the color of danger
When your heart won’t sleep

Red as fire
Red as sin
Red is the color
That runs underneath my skin

Red is the color of love
When it’s begging to stay

Red is the color of danger
When you don’t walk away

Red is the color of moments
You know won’t last

Red is the color…
where I fall in love

Red is the color
I bleed
The same woman in a crimson dress in a blood-red sea under a red sky, a red glow at her chest
✦   endwritten by Auny · first published jan 11, 2026