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The Verve Pipe — Colorful
Album: Underneath
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Released: 2001
Length: 4:22
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the show is over - close the storybook
there will be no encore
and all the random hands that i have shook
well, they're reaching for the door
i watch the backs as they leave single-file
you stood stubborn, cheering all the while

i know i can be colorful
i know i can be grey
i know this loser's living fortunate
cause i know you will love me either way

most were being good for goodness sake
but you wouldn't pantomine
you are more beautiful when you awake
than most are in a lifetime
through the haze that is my memory
you stayed for drama though you paid for a comedy

i know i can be colorful
i know i can be grey
i know this loser's living fortunate
cause i know you will love me either way

look ahead as far as you can see
we live in drama but we'll die in a comedy

i know i can be colorful (when you live in black and white)
i know i can be grey (my colors fade away)
i know this loser's living fortunate
cause i know you will love me either way

i know i can be colorful (when you live in black and white)
i know i can be grey (my colors fade away)
i know this loser's living fortunate
and i know you will love me
yes i know you will love me
i know you will love me either way
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Good song. It'd be better if the tempo were picked up a bit. 
Posted 11 years ago by scraig    [ Reply ]
Nice set Bill; hey Cynaera, my Gerbil is looking seriously drab and in need of a polish.

That was polish and not Polish, right?

Posted 12 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
Upbeat! Melodious!
Posted 12 years ago by salzburg4321    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
This one just caught me by the wrist and dragged me to someplace really warm and sunny. Think I'll stay here for awhile. Too much winter can make a person ugly inside.
 

{#Bananajam}  Rock on!


Posted 12 years ago by DeAun    [ Reply ]
This one just caught me by the wrist and dragged me to someplace really warm and sunny. Think I'll stay here for awhile. Too much winter can make a person ugly inside.
Posted 13 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
Hadn't this, or anything from these guys in a while.  I like this.
Posted 13 years ago by scarletdancer    [ Reply ]

THANK YOU!!!


Posted 13 years ago by raewah    [ Reply ]
Love this.
Posted 13 years ago by zipper    [ Reply ]
remnants of Eli

Posted 13 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
Love this.  And "Underneath" is a really great song, too.  These guys get mistaken for The Verve, but they're infinitely different (and, IMO, better.) Grooving on this song.  Thanks, whoever provided it!  Could we get "Underneath" too? I'd be your best friend. I'd wax your skis. I'd polish your gerbil.
Posted 13 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
Play more stuff like this on RP- :)
Posted 13 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
 drews wrote:
Sounds like somebody trying to sing like Michael Stipe (badly)
 
I think you may be tricked into expecting Stipe because of that tremolo in the backing guitars, which is similar to one of REM's songs whose name escapes me right now.  I don't hear any actual Bad Stipe in the vocals.  (Someone will surely say that term is redundant.)

Posted 14 years ago by nate917    [ Reply ]
ironic that the name of this song is "colorful"
Posted 14 years ago by daveesh    [ Reply ]
Two thumbs up for my hometown boys.
Posted 14 years ago by spunkyboy62    [ Reply ]
Nice to hear some playing time for one of my favorite nineties bands which I think still hold up strongly today.
Posted 14 years ago by auburntigerrich    [ Reply ]
I loved this band in highschool, or rather that one song, "Freshmen." After he went solo, he played a show in Grand Rapids, MI (his hometown, I believe). I felt kind of bad for him, because I think most of the crowd was there just to hear that song. We all sang along. This is a little more polished (read: over-produced) than other offerings. 6
Posted 15 years ago by smilestoomuch    [ Reply ]
Sounds like somebody trying to sing like Michael Stipe (badly)
Posted 15 years ago by drews    [ Reply ]
hey, I like this
Posted 15 years ago by crazy    [ Reply ]
hey bill, if you're reading not relevant to this song but I'm in the kitchen making xmas cookies and would love to hear some grinch songs either the classic or updated jim carey
Posted 15 years ago by crazy    [ Reply ]
 Ellehcim wrote:


Actually, 'The Freshmen' was done by the Verve Pipe. I think you are thinking of Bitter-Sweet Symphony by the Verve. At least, that's the song I always associate with them
 

Ummmm....this is Verve Pipe.
Posted 15 years ago by holborne    [ Reply ]
squidish wrote:
I'm imagining Dana Carvey doing his pop singer, "Your're my layyy-duh..." while earnestly banging on a piano...
Choppin' brocolliiiiii!
Posted 15 years ago by quatsch    [ Reply ]
sfearll wrote:
this is nice... I like it!
Me too, good choice!
Posted 15 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
this is nice... I like it!
Posted 16 years ago by sfearll    [ Reply ]
canadianbug wrote:
gorgeous! beats 'the freshmen' or whatever it was called. and that was catchy!
Actually, 'The Freshmen' was done by the Verve Pipe. I think you are thinking of Bitter-Sweet Symphony by the Verve. At least, that's the song I always associate with them
Posted 16 years ago by Ellehcim    [ Reply ]
wow, lot of negative comments for a pretty decent song.
Posted 16 years ago by bluematrix    [ Reply ]
Whoh! I thought this was Carbon Leaf! I feel so 'tupid
Posted 16 years ago by morgsy67    [ Reply ]
to my ear this is not exactly music. Maybe a combination of fragments/layers of music, at most.
Posted 16 years ago by andionita    [ Reply ]
musikalia wrote:
Wow, this is awful!
yep, my first impression was
Posted 16 years ago by trollboy    [ Reply ]
Too nada-surf-carbon-leafish for me.
Posted 16 years ago by meloman    [ Reply ]
I'm imagining Dana Carvey doing his pop singer, "Your're my layyy-duh..." while earnestly banging on a piano...
Posted 16 years ago by squidish    [ Reply ]
Posted 16 years ago by daveesh    [ Reply ]
This is okay, thats why I rated it a 4, but not much better.
Posted 16 years ago by deadalus451    [ Reply ]
Wow, this is awful!
Posted 17 years ago by musikalia    [ Reply ]
jennywho wrote:
Oh my god... I used to go see these guys at the small clubs in East Lansing before they signed with RCA. They were AMAZING. Imagine this song with lots of interesting harmonies, and you're getting close to what they sounded like pre-RCA. It's been mostly downhill since then. I highly recommend their album, "Pop Smear." Ok - cheesy name - but GREAT music.
Actually some decent music has come out of East Lansing, but they made the biggest splash. Saw them at the Aud several times. Go Green!
Posted 17 years ago by burnthebridge    [ Reply ]
Are they saying "I live on canned beef"?
Posted 17 years ago by Jack_Jefferson    [ Reply ]
gorgeous! beats 'the freshmen' or whatever it was called. and that was catchy!
Posted 17 years ago by canadianbug    [ Reply ]
Great power pop from a band I've never heard of!
Posted 17 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
Hinkamp wrote:
one of the cheesiest moments at the end of the movie "Rock Star" but it still got to me becuase of the emotion in this song...
I love that movie. I hadn't heard the original before I had seen Rock Star. They fooled me. I thought it was an original for the movie and was really impressed.
Posted 17 years ago by wally42    [ Reply ]
Oh my god... I used to go see these guys at the small clubs in East Lansing before they signed with RCA. They were AMAZING. Imagine this song with lots of interesting harmonies, and you're getting close to what they sounded like pre-RCA. It's been mostly downhill since then. I highly recommend their album, "Pop Smear." Ok - cheesy name - but GREAT music.
Posted 17 years ago by jennywho    [ Reply ]
one of the cheesiest moments at the end of the movie "Rock Star" but it still got to me becuase of the emotion in this song...
Posted 17 years ago by Hinkamp    [ Reply ]
Diggin the Verve Pipe on a first listen Thursday wet afternoon - brightens up.
Posted 17 years ago by Mack    [ Reply ]
I thought it was SEAL as well! Pyro wrote:
Reminds me of Seal!
Posted 17 years ago by K-BILLY    [ Reply ]
Pyro wrote:
Reminds me of Seal!
Posted 17 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
Not heard anything from the vervepipe for years... got into them when we got married in las vegas, one of their albums seemed to be on constant rotation on the radio station we listened too.. happy memories BTW they are not as good as the Verve who hail from Wigan, where i am writing this email from. IF you get the chance listen to Richard Ashcrofts new album,a real gem.
Posted 17 years ago by Bri_boy    [ Reply ]
First Verve Pipe song I can remember liking. Thanks, RP.
Posted 17 years ago by SCprof    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of Seal!
Posted 17 years ago by Pyro    [ Reply ]
Adore his voice
Posted 18 years ago by Jacksonstat    [ Reply ]
pedro wrote:
I'm still mad at them for stealing The Verve's name. It's like a band calling themselves "The Beatles Pipe"
That's funny because when this station turned me on to the Verve, I went out and bought Urban Hymns in the used cd bin and right behind it was Verve Pipe-Villians. I was in such a rush that I thought "Hey, another The Verve album" so I bought it too. I was pretty p.o.ed when I found out that it was a different band. Now I listen to the verve pipe all the time and although I think the verve is very good, The Verve Pipe just totally blows them away. At least Villians does. IMHO of course.
Posted 18 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
pedro wrote:
I'm still mad at them for stealing The Verve's name. It's like a band calling themselves "The Beatles Pipe"
if you want to be mad at someone, maybe you should be mad at The Verve for THEIR unoriginality. They initially named themselves Verve, which was already owned by an American Jazz Label. "The" was added after they lost a lawsuit claim against them. And their "one hit wonder" status lacks originality too, stealing the riff for "Bittersweet Symphony" from the Rolling Stones "The Last Time." And stealing is no exaggeration either: they lost a lawsuit for that song as well, since they didn't have permission to sample, relinquishing all royalties for the song. At least the Verve Pipe had hits that they actually wrote.
Posted 18 years ago by sesomswim    [ Reply ]
newwavegurly wrote:
Wow, thanks for the info! I knew the song sounded familiar, but I also knew that it wasn't this version that I had heard before. (and I actually really liked the version Mark Wahlberg did in the movie)
Me too!!
Posted 18 years ago by Bizzarefall    [ Reply ]
cbonai wrote:
These guys still around anymore? Forgot how much I liked them.
Brian released a solo album last year, I think, or maybe the year before. I saw him at a street festival in his hometown of Grand Rapids, MI. He did a bunch of Verve Pipe stuff with a guest band. It was so cool to hear the whole crowd sing "Freshman" with him YEARS after it was a hit. He's really great solo, too.
Posted 18 years ago by smilestoomuch    [ Reply ]
I'm still mad at them for stealing The Verve's name. It's like a band calling themselves "The Beatles Pipe"
Posted 18 years ago by pedro    [ Reply ]
Caught Brian Vander Ark performing a solo acoustic show and it was simply sublime. I didn't know Verve Pipe except for a couple of songs, including "Freshmen" - which in its acoustic beauty brought the audience to tears. Highly recommend seeing this show.
Posted 18 years ago by LaurieBlue    [ Reply ]
tinkerbelly wrote:
this song has nothing redeeming or interesting to it.
This comment has nothing redeeming or interesting to it. ;>
Posted 18 years ago by psycholynx    [ Reply ]
this song has nothing redeeming or interesting to it.
Posted 18 years ago by tinkerbelly    [ Reply ]
These guys still around anymore? Forgot how much I liked them.
Posted 18 years ago by cbonai    [ Reply ]
I really do enjoy me some Verve Pipe.
Posted 18 years ago by ploafmaster    [ Reply ]
Staaaaaaaaand Uuuuup and Shoooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuut !!!!!!!
Posted 19 years ago by psycholynx    [ Reply ]
They don't meet their class (yet), but they awfully much remind me of Genesis/Phil Collins Quite good.
Posted 19 years ago by Tux    [ Reply ]
Oh, man! Now I miss VP... What next? More , please.
Posted 19 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
Thanks Bill, been waiting for this for a while and you delivered. Now the rest of the day doesn't appear to be so daunting.
Posted 19 years ago by B1gwave_Dave    [ Reply ]
biwwy bwagg and luka bloom?
Posted 19 years ago by colt4x5    [ Reply ]
havent listened to much of this album,, this song is not bad though,, saw these guys many times when going to school at michigan state,, they were cool back then.
Posted 20 years ago by lukinman    [ Reply ]
Mot wrote:
Well this song pretty much has it all. They're not Freshmen any more.
Thankfully! That song was a self-important bore.
Posted 20 years ago by redeyespy    [ Reply ]
nothing very interesting going on here. i would expect to hear this on the local "soft rock" stations. extraordinarily average.
Posted 20 years ago by Platypus    [ Reply ]
Very nice. I don't know if I'd heard of these guys before, but this was good.
Posted 20 years ago by camarkim    [ Reply ]
Well this song pretty much has it all. They're not Freshmen any more.
Posted 20 years ago by Mot    [ Reply ]
Brad_Eleven wrote:
This Just In From the Guilty Pleasures Dept: This is the song that the actor formerly known as Marky Mark sang at the end of Rock Star, the amazing treatment of what could have been nothing more than a myopic fantasy wherein an obsessive fan of a heavy metal band gets to take over for the lead singer, who he's been imitating for most of his adoles--er, adult life. The version in the film is performed in a coffeehouse, very stripped down, as I recall.
Yes, very stripped down and very powerful -- especially in the context of the movie. And I agree with you that the movie is indeed amazing. Highly recommended!
Posted 20 years ago by hobbitt    [ Reply ]
Brad_Eleven wrote:
This Just In From the Guilty Pleasures Dept: This is the song that the actor formerly known as Marky Mark sang at the end of Rock Star, the amazing treatment of what could have been nothing more than a myopic fantasy wherein an obsessive fan of a heavy metal band gets to take over for the lead singer, who he's been imitating for most of his adoles--er, adult life. The version in the film is performed in a coffeehouse, very stripped down, as I recall. Links from the Internet Movie Database follow. The film: (click here) Song Q&A: (click here) (click here) Even more trivia about the Verve Pipe and the film: (click here)
Wow, thanks for the info! I knew the song sounded familiar, but I also knew that it wasn't this version that I had heard before. (and I actually really liked the version Mark Wahlberg did in the movie)
Posted 20 years ago by newwavegurly    [ Reply ]
Yeah i never heard this one before either - nice!
Posted 20 years ago by spacetramp    [ Reply ]
This Just In From the Guilty Pleasures Dept: This is the song that the actor formerly known as Marky Mark sang at the end of Rock Star, the amazing treatment of what could have been nothing more than a myopic fantasy wherein an obsessive fan of a heavy metal band gets to take over for the lead singer, who he's been imitating for most of his adoles--er, adult life. The version in the film is performed in a coffeehouse, very stripped down, as I recall. Links from the Internet Movie Database follow. The film: (click here) Song Q&A: (click here) (click here) Even more trivia about the Verve Pipe and the film: (click here)
Posted 20 years ago by Brad_Eleven    [ Reply ]
I had never heard this one before, it's simply outstanding.
Posted 20 years ago by Byte_Me    [ Reply ]
they are a very underrated band indeed. the lead singer sounds at times, like Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
Posted 20 years ago by Drunkenlilacwine    [ Reply ]
Colorful is really very very beautiful. You could just melt away!
Posted 20 years ago by rugrat    [ Reply ]
I love Verve Pipe, and this is their best song to date!
Posted 20 years ago by stripes    [ Reply ]