BLUE

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“BLUE” is the tenth and final song featured on Billie Eilish’s third studio album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT. This song is a reworked version of two of Eilish’s previously… Read More

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BLUE Lyrics

[Part I: TRUE BLUE]

[Intro]
Mm, mm, mm

[Chorus]
I try to live in black and white, but I'm so blue
I'd like to mean it when I say I'm over you
But that's still not true (Blue)
And I'm still so blue, oh

[Verse]
I thought we were the same
Birds of a feather, now I'm ashamed
I told you a lie, désolée, mon amour
I'm tryin' my best, don't know what's in store
Open up the door (Blue)
In the back of my mind, I'm still overseas
A bird in a cage, thought you were made for me

[Chorus]
I try (I'm not what) to live in black and white, but I'm so blue (But I'm not what you need)
I'd like (Not what you need) to mean it when I say I'm over you
But that's still not true, true
And I'm still so bluе (And it's not true)
I'm true blue, truе blue
I'm true blue

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[Outro]
(Blue) Mm, mm, mm

[Part II: BORN BLUE]

[Intro]
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah

[Verse 1]
You were born bluer than a butterfly
Beautiful and so deprived of oxygen
Colder than your father's eyes
He never learned to sympathize with anyone

[Chorus]
I don't blame you
But I can't change you
Don't hate you (Don't hate you)
But we can't save you (But we can't save you)

[Verse 2]
You were born reachin' for your mother's hands
Victim of your father's plans to rule the world
Too afraid to step outside
Paranoid and petrified of what you've heard

[Bridge]
But they could say the same 'bout me
I sleep 'bout three hours each night
Means only twenty-one a week now, now
And I could say the same 'bout you
Born blameless, grew up famous too
Just a baby born blue now, now

[Chorus]
I don't blame you
But I can't change you
Don't hate you
But we can't save you

[Bridge]
(Same 'bout me)
(I sleep 'bout three hours each night)
(Means only twenty-one a week now)
(Same 'bout me)
(I sleep 'bout three hours each night)
(Means only twenty-one a week now)
(Same 'bout me)
(I sleep 'bout three hours each night)
(Means only twenty-one a week now)
(Same 'bout me)
(I sleep 'bout three hours each night)
(Means only twenty-one a week now)
Ooh-ooh
It's over now
It's over now
It's over now
(Ah-ah-ah, ah)

[Outro]
But when can I hear the next one?

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About

“BLUE” is the tenth and final song featured on Billie Eilish’s third studio album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT.

This song is a reworked version of two of Eilish’s previously unreleased songs. The first song is “True Blue”, which Eilish and her brother, producer, and co-collaborator Finneas O'Connell recorded when they were fourteen and eighteen respectively. The full version of the demo was later leaked in February 2022, inspiring Eilish to work on it again. The other song is “Born Blue”, which was going to be featured as track six on Eilish’s 2021 album Happier Than Ever, but Eilish “just couldn’t figure it out.”

The first half of the song, which is the reworked “True Blue,” takes the melodies and chorus, while adding a verse that reminisces each track from the album. The second half, which is the reworked “Born Blue,” covers somebody who grew up in a cold-shouldered family and their personality now that they’ve grown up.

At the end of the song, Eilish says, “But when can I hear the next one?” It is rumored but unconfirmed fan-theory that HIT ME HARD AND SOFT is going to be a double album, one revolving around the color blue, the other red. This theory is called the “Ilomilo Theory” because of the colors of the characters in the 2010 video game Ilomilo and how Eilish has a song of the same title.