Colors, Part I

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I've had a "colors" playlist sitting around on my computer forever so I decided I should finally get around to attacking it and picking out the best songs to post. After a few days of listening, I think the list is pretty much ready. Obviously, a theme like this has way too many tracks to post all at once, so I'll do it in a few installments. I'm not sure how many yet but this first one will get the less specific titles out of the way, as in titles containing just the word "color" and as an added bonus, I've thrown in a few "rainbow" songs as well. Sample/download the chosen ones below the cuts.

• Carissa's Wierd - The Color That Your Eyes Changed With the Color of Your Hair

Seal this envelope with a heart that's been beaten black, beaten blue, beaten all over again.

• Cat Power - Colors and the Kids

It must be the colors and the kids that keep me alive 'cause the music is boring me to death.

• Death Cab for Cutie - A Lack of Color

If you feel discouraged when there's a lack of color here, please don't worry, lover. It's really bursting at the seams from absorbing everything, the spectrum's A to Z.

• The Dresden Dolls - Colorblind

You only see in black and white, so go on back to your own kind and I'll go back to mine.

• Elliott Smith - Color Bars

You're just some dude with a stilted attitude that you learned from TV. You'll undo but I'll be connecting everything.

• Lisa Germano - ... Of Love and Colors

You gave it up. You lost your reason. You never saw you are unique. You spread your wings and cut 'em off. You're only hurting.

• Tilly and the Wall - Coughing Colors

When your bones are broke and you're all alone and the fog's so thick you can't see up close, just know that I will end up strangled, too.

• The Dresden Dolls - Rainbow Connection (written by Paul Williams & Kenny Ascher)

Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me.

• The Elected - Beautiful Rainbow

If the sky filled up with clouds of doom and the whole world was ending soon, well, I just couldn't get scared 'cause I'd have my rainbow.

• Nerina Pallot - Rainbow

Give me some of yours then; if you don't, I'm going to thieve it. If you thought I was a good girl, you'd better not believe it.

• Tilly and the Wall - Rainbows in the Dark

I called out danger, my friends and some strangers. They stumbled and wavered but caught me a savior. They slipped me the blood and the whole of the body but I didn't feel their change.