Colours of Your Love
Conchita Wurst Lyrics

Conchita Wurst’s song "Colours of Your Love" is a powerful love song that talks about the transformative power of love. The song opens up with the line, “I built a castle round my heart, I wear my courage like a mask.” This line metaphorically signifies the singer's difficulty in opening up to someone and how they’ve gone through lengths to protect themselves from getting hurt. Despite that, they see something in their lover that makes them want to take down their walls, as they say, “I see reflections in your eyes, in the colours of your love.”

The chorus, "And my heart is like a battlefield, you made me surrender, and you light me up like gasoline, your love is like friendly fire," highlights the poet's vulnerability and the transformative power of love. They admit that their heart is like a battlefield, representing the struggle they have gone through in finding love. However, their lover has made them surrender and acknowledge their feelings, igniting a spark within them, represented by the metaphor of lighting up like gasoline. The idea of friendly fire seems like an oxymoron, but it expresses how love can be both warm and exhilarating like fire while also dangerous and unpredictable like friendly fire in a war zone.

In the second verse, the lyrics convey the idea of how love has transformed the singer's life, and focuses on the idea of shedding one's inhibitions and fears. They’ve left their shadows behind and decided to embrace the colors of love. The line "With every heartbeat, I'm losing my shadow" is another powerful metaphor for the process of self-discovery that love can bring. The song ends with the chorus one more time, "And my heart is like a battlefield, you made me surrender, and you light me up like gasoline, I'm dying your friendly fire," signifying that the singer is willing to take risks and face the unknown because of love's transformative power.