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Words & Music by Victoria Banks & Tedd Swormstedt
The sun shines through my window on your side of the bed
Across that empty pillow where you used to lay your head
There’s not a cloud up in that sky, but it’s not the same one I used to see
Your picture’s in the hallway at the bottom of the stairs
With a handful o forget me nots and one tied in your hair
And it used to make me smile, but now it looks different to me
‘Cause there was the ocean in your eyes
There was the midnight on your lips
There was the sweet indigo heat inside the flame that was your kiss
There was the sapphire on your finger and the promises I used to think were true
yeah, but this is a brand new shade of blue
There’s no Crayola crayon, there’s no Home Depot chip
No Sherwin Williams can is gonna have a match for this
The kind of broken that I feel it’s cold as ice and cuts like steel
No there’s no way finding that in any color wheel
‘Cause there was the ocean in your eyes
There was the midnight on your lips
There was the sweet indigo heat inside the flame that was your kiss
There was the sapphire on your finger and the promises I used to think were true
yeah, but this is a brand new shade of blue
A deeper darker kind of hue
A kind of hurt I can’t see through
That’s my world without you
‘Cause there was the ocean in your eyes
There was the midnight on your lips
There was the sweet indigo heat inside the flame that was your kiss
There was the sapphire on your finger and the promises I used to think were true
yeah, but this is a brand new shade of blue
2022 John Lennon Song Contest – Finalist – Shade of Blue
