These Colours Don’t Run

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“These Colours Don’t Run” is another politically charged song by the British band Architects. In a 2015 Noisey interview, Tom Searle shared that this song is a general… Read More

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These Colours Don’t Run Lyrics

[Intro]
These streets aren't paved with gold
Don't believe everything that you're told
Deception hides in all you see
Corruption hangs in the air that you breathe

[Verse]
And in the land of the free
You know nothing comes for free
Fourth drive in paradise
Vapid souls check the market price
Lifetime slave living in a suburban grave
If there was a God, was a God
You would be the death of him

[Chorus]
These colours don't run
Like colour from the face
Eyes roll back, chemical despair
It's true what they say, life isn't fair

[Post-Chorus]
So repeat this line, "Everything, everything is fine"
So repeat this line, "Everything, everything is fine"
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[Chorus]
These colours don't run
Like colour from the face
Eyes roll back, chemical despair
It's true what they say, life isn't fair

[Verse]
And in the land of the free
You know nothing comes for free

[Bridge]
I'm strugglin' to find any poetry in this
Someone beat me to the line "Ignorance is bliss"
So I guess I'll just say it how it is
You had it all, you fucking pigs
Oh

[Outro]
These streets aren't paved with gold
Don't believe everything that you're told
Deception hides in all you see
Corruption hangs in the air you breathe

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“These Colours Don’t Run” is another politically charged song by the British band Architects.
In a 2015 Noisey interview, Tom Searle shared that this song is a general statement on hypocrisy and was written about the destruction of America due to human intervention, stating that:

America is a driving force behind a lot of the bad things in the world [and that] their corporations and businesses are fried and they’ve gone and destroyed other places in the world. And England is complicit to everything America does.