I Don't Dream in Color Anymore

I Don't Dream in Color Anymore Mix 3

 

This is a song about how, ever since I caught Covid, I haven't dreamed in color. All my dreams are dark brown, the color of what I see behind my closed eyelids, as if I'm dreaming about having my eyes closed. I guess I actually see stuff, but it's all the same soupy mess of dark-brown-ness. I wonder if my dreams'll ever get normal again. Anyway, that's what this song's about. I think the thing this song's about could also be a metaphor for depression and stuff. A depressed person walks through life as if in a colorless dream.

This song also sounds (at least to me) a lot like this fun little concept I came up with a while back. What would it be like to make an album that sounds like what Linkin Park would sound like if they did a country album? Y'know how Linkin Park experimented with lots of different stuff? Like, here's a metal + rap album...here's another album that sounds different from that...here's a pop album (their last album). I always wondered if - if Chester lived - if Linkin Park woulda ever experimented with doing a country album. Maybe this song sounds like what that would sound like. Well, maybe if I was actually talented, it would sound like that, but this is my best attempt so far.

Oh yeah, the scratchy nature of the vocals has to do with the fact that I still have Covid.

The lyrics are:

I don't dream in color anymore

My dreams don't have no rainbows in store

My dreams are dark and brown

Giving me some big frowns

I don't dream in color anymore

I don't dream in color anymore

I don't dream in color anymore

I don't dream in color

I don't dream in color

I don't dream in color anymore

Ever since I got the Covid bug

My dreams feel like a bad trip on drugs

My dreams are filled with gloom

And they are dark as a tomb

I don't dream in color anymore

I don't dream in color anymore

I don't dream in color anymore

My dreams are stupid now

And I do not know just how

My dreams will get regular again

I caught the stupid Covid bug, and I'll say

My dreams have gotten stupid and they're dark grey

I wish I could dream in color - that would be

Nice - cuz would be like some normality / sugar and spice

Covid took the colors away from

My dreams, and now they're looking way dumb

They feel like I am on a bad trip

Down and down, am I on a sinking ship?

I don't dream in color anymore

I don't dream in color anymore

My dreams are stupid now

And I do not know just how

My dreams will get regular again