'The Moon Is Blue' is taken from Colourbox's 1985 self-titled album. Listen to that in full here:
Direction and motion design by Michael Speed
Original sleeve design: 23 Envelope
Future Islands covered this track for 4AD's Bills & Aches & Blues compilation, listen here:
Lyrics:
Feel these hands that
Shake this world
Then try to understand
When the light shines down
And the time goes slowly
When my mind's in the dusk
Scorched and dying
There's a pain in my hand
Inscribed to the sad and lonely
Now I feel so cold and alone
Thinking how long
Now if you had told me
She'll be coming back
And if you had told me
The clock was gonna fall
And if you had shown me
Some affection
I would have believed you
Don't tell me the moon is blue
(Now you've let me go)
Coz tonight it's over
(Now you've let me go)
Now the pain is in the dust
(Now you've let me go)
And you can't find your blue moon
(Now you've let me go)
Now it's over, oh
Tonight it's over
The pain was a shot
One, that couldn't be both ways
And tore my world apart
I could have healed that wound so deep
But you wouldn't understand
Don't tell me the moon is blue
(Now you've let me go)
Coz tonight it's over
(Now you've let me go)
Now the pain's in the dust
(Now you've let me go)
And you can't find your blue moon
(Now you've let me go)
Now it's over, oh
Tonight it's over, ooh
Tonight it's over, oh
Over
Tonight it's over, ooh
Ooh
Tonight it's over
Oh oh over
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