Colors (song)

"This article is about the Crossfade song. For the song by Donovan Leitch, see "Colours". For other uses, see Color (disambiguation)."

Single infobox
Name = Colors


Artist = Crossfade
from Album = Crossfade
Released = 2005
Format = CD
Genre = Post-grunge
Length = 3:18
Label = Columbia Records
Writer =
Last single = "So Far Away"
(2005)
This single = "Colors"
(2005)
Next single = "Invincible"
(2006)

"Colors" is a 2005 single by Crossfade from their self-titled album.

Music Video

The music video for Colors depicts a relationship between a man and a woman, the latter of whom lives with her parents. Throughout the video, primarily in the reptitions of the chorus, the video switches to scenes of the band playing atop the apartment complex in which the woman lives.

The video begins with a slow close up of the woman's face. She stares blankly into the camera, possibly in either deep thought or a simple reverie. Following a scene of the band playing on the roof, the woman is shown yet again sitting in a kitchen as her parents set the table for what is presumably dinner. All is well until the phone rings and it is picked up by the father. The father, though smiling at first, soon frowns and looks down accusingly at his daughter. The daughter takes the phone, walks a small distance away, and begins to converse with her boyfriend. In the background, her parents are seen quietly arguing, most likely over the aforementioned boyfriend. Her boyfriend, upon hearing her parents fervently discusing, says good-bye and hangs up the phone. The girl, depressed, simply hangs up the phone, argues with her parents for a brief moment, then leaves the apartment to meet her boyfriend, giving him a warm embrace.

The man then presents the girl with a necklace, a silver medallion upon a metallic string. Elated, the girl allows him to place it on her neck, granting him a kiss in return.

The scene switches to the woman within her apartment, saying hello to her father. Her father, apparently enraged by the very existence of the necklace, reprimands her, seemingly demanding where she got it, from whom, why, and the general variety of questions most often associated with overprotective father figures. Not wanting to fight, the woman simply takes off the necklace and smiles sweetly at her still angry father.

Another scene change shows the viewer the woman answering the door at her apartment. They are wearing different clothes, so it is presumable that a decent amount of time as passed. It is her boyfriend. Upon noticing the lack of a necklace, he begins to inquire where it is. She explains, and he seems annoyed by it. He is tired that they must hide and conceal their relationship simply because her parents do not approve. He begins to fight with her as well, going so far as to bring the woman to tears. She tearfully closes the door and leans against it, holding the necklace in her hands.

We return to the image of the woman's face. She appears to have a revelation, as she moves to the side as if on a mission of sorts. She climbs to the top of the complex, memories of the constant fights between her boyfriend and parents flitting through her head. Upon reaching the very edge of the building, located just above a dumpster, she holds the necklace out over the edge and drops it. Her dropping of the necklace represents her self-given freedom from her parents, in that destroying the necklace, she is destroying a level of control they have placed upon her. It is also symbolic of her newfound freedom from her boyfriend, though whether or not he actually did anything worthy of reprimand is debatable.

Throughout the video, clips of the band playing atop the roof are shown. Though occupying the same roof, the woman never meets with the band or vice versa.

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