Trocadero is a band based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that consists of Nico Audy-Rowland, Martha Williams, Jeff Williams and Brandon Erdos. Other guest musicians include Philadelphia Telepants, Sandy Casey, Susan Hsia, and Karen Langlie. They are most famous for creating the theme to the popular machinima series Red vs Blue, "Blood Gulch Blues," as well as other music for the series such as "A Girl Named Tex". Music for one of Rooster Teeth's other series, The Strangerhood, including the theme song "Crazy Zoo," is being provided by Trocadero's Audy-Rowland in collaboration with Jeff Williams, forming a band called The Uggos.
The band is known for its diverse styles of music. Its signature element is the polyphonic blending of the voices of Nico and Wendy (now Nico and Martha). Instruments used by the band include drums, several kinds of keyboards, vocals, piano, violin, viola, guitars, and banjos. The song genres are even more diverse; the band's first CD includes tracks that are strongly influenced by the blues, disco, spirituals, western narrative, and many types of rock. In addition, one of the songs, "Oh Five!", is a brief Hawaiian intermission piece.
A second CD is currently in works and is set to be released in 2007. The song "Alien Champion", which plays during the end credits of the Red vs Blue season 3 DVD, will be included on the CD.
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Colors
Trocadero Lyrics
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Yellow sun, reflected in your eye
Red flows through, the passion in your art
Cobalt blue, the wisdom in your heart
Issho no toki wa
iro nante kankei nai
issho no toki wa
Corazon feathers
Do se no naka otogu
When we're together
subete wa bokura no mono
Dark is for, the killer that's inside
Light surrounds, the goodness that you hide
Purple hearts, are tugging at our sleeve
We stole fire, now there's nothing left to thieve
When we're together
Colors don't matter much to us
When we're together
8-bits is enough for us
Corazon feathers
Flying inside the copper line
When we're together
They are yours and they are mine
The song "Colors" by Trocadero is a beautiful representation of how colors and our surroundings affect our human emotions and actions. The song opens up with the color cyan, which is described as the sparkle in the sky. This color represents hope, stability, and creativity. The next color highlighted is yellow, signifying the sun and how it reflects in our eyes, depicting confidence and happiness. Red is the third color represented in the song, which flows with passion in one's art, bringing forth emotions of love, desire, and power. Lastly, the color cobalt blue is described as wisdom in our hearts, representing calmness, intelligence, and good judgment.
The chorus emphasizes that when we are together, colors do not matter much to us. Instead, what is prioritized is the connection between two people. This connection is intimate and exclusive to sharing experiences, emotions, and memories. The lyrics use '8-bits' to represent the simplicity of the connection; it is all that we need to form something great.
The song suggests that darker colors are associated with negative emotions, such as guilt, anger, and chaos. The darker colors also represent the inner darkness within us. Light colors symbolize good and purity, but our masks of goodness can hide our true intentions. The lyric "We stole fire, now there's nothing left to thieve" means that we all have our desires, but when we get them, it sometimes results in an empty feeling.
Line by Line Meaning
Cyan is, the sparkle in the sky
Cyan represents the glittering sparkle of the sky.
Yellow sun, reflected in your eye
Yellow portrays the reflection of the sun in the eyes of the person.
Red flows through, the passion in your art
Red signifies the passion that flows through the art of the person.
Cobalt blue, the wisdom in your heart
Cobalt blue represents the wisdom that resides within the person's heart.
Issho no toki wa
At the time we spend together
iro nante kankei nai
Colors don't really matter
hachi-bitto de juubun
Eight-bit colors are perfectly fine
Corazon feathers
Feathers of the heart
Do se no naka otogu
Dancing inside the copper line
When we're together
When we spend time together
subete wa bokura no mono
Everything belongs to us
Dark is for, the killer that's inside
Dark represents the person's inner demon: the nature of killer inside them.
Light surrounds, the goodness that you hide
Light signifies the presence of goodness that the person may hide internally.
Purple hearts, are tugging at our sleeve
Purple portrays the emotions, like love, that want to come out and be expressed.
We stole fire, now there's nothing left to thieve
We have already taken the flame and consumed it, leaving nothing more to be stolen.
Contributed by Riley K. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Keram Keramovich
Cyan is the sparkle in the sky
(Iota is Cyan)
Yellow sun, reflected in your eye
(Eta is gold (Yellow) it makes sense they're together)
Red flows through the passion in your art
(Sigma's orange, and ambitious)
Cobalt blue, the wisdom in your heart
(Alpha, Church, duh)
Dark is for the killer that's inside
(Omega is Dark (black)
Light surrounds the goodness that you hide
(This is the one I'm confused about)
Purple hearts are tugging at our sleeve
(Theta, he was blue and purple, fragment of Trust)
We stole fire, now there's nothing left to thieve
(Sigma again. Besides being orange, Prometheus created humans, and Sigma is the fragment of Creativity and Ambition)
Goregoth the destroyer
Cyan is the Sparkle In the sky
(Tucker, a reference to the running joke that nobody knows if his armor is aqua, teal or cyan)
Yellow Sun reflected in your eyes
(Sister, a reference to her falling from the sky in a ship. Could also reference Grif and the running joke of them thinking he's yellow, but I think it's Sister)
Red flows through the passion in your art
(Likely Sarge, as his passion is killing blues and he is very loyal to red team, thus the "Red flows through the passion")
Cobalt Blue, the wisdom in your heart
(Church, a reference to how he is widely considered the most rational of the Reds and Blues)
Dark is for the killer that's inside
Light surrounds the goodness that you hide
(Tex for both. She is very ambitious and enjoys killing, however she has a hidden soft side, Church being the "light" referencing his ghost(or technically holographic form), surrounding her dark side and trying to keep it with him)
Purple hearts, are tugging at our sleeve
(References both Doc and Caboose. Doc is purple, and is constantly trying to be accepted by the teams, the "tugging at our sleeves", referencing Caboose due to him being shot in the foot, so he would get a purple heart, as well as the fact that he acts like a stupid child, desperate for attention explaining the "tugging at our sleeves")
We stole fire, now there's nothing left to thieve.
(I'm a bit confused about this one, but it could reference Wyoming due to him and Gamma making up the prophecy to gain control of the aliens)
Deflated Church
Does anyone know what is being said in the middle sort of section? I've looked up the lyrics but I can't find what the language or the meaning is. The lyrics are
"issho no toki wa
iro nante kankei nai
issho no toki wa
hachi-bitto de juubun
Corazon feathers
Dousen no naka wo tobu"
If you could help that would be great
Zach Boyd
Church: Cobalt
Tucker: Cyan
Caboose: Blue
Tex: Black
Sister: Yellow
Jenkins: Green
Sarge: Red
Simmons: Maroon
Grif: Orange (Yellow)
Donut: Pink (Lightish Red)
Lopez: Brown
Doc: Purple
Carolina: Cyan
Washington: Grey
North Dakota: Purple
South Dakota: Violet
Wyoming: White
New York: Light Orange
Maine: White
Florida: Blue
Connecticut: Brown
Johnny Djiurkopff
Amazing how a series that was supposed to be a one off comedy machinima managed to inspire such beautiful music
Bowen Orcutt
1:59 Choke up a little every time I hear that part. There's a lot of thematic weight about the whole show in this song if you look deeper than what the lyrics literally mean. To me, the "we stole fire" part, if you tie that phrase into it's original mythological meaning, ties into their finding out the truth in season 8, and "now there's nothing left to fear" represents their decision afterwards to nut up and fight anyway. Someone should really make AMVs of these songs to montages of scenes that tie to the lyrics. If I made one to this, the "purple hearts" line would either be a screenshot of Church getting blown up or Griff getting run over. :P
『 nice teal 』
This band is WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too underrated. I've been listening to Roses Are Red for years now and only just now discovered that they released a 2nd album. And all I have to say is: So Fucking Good.
Keram Keramovich
Cyan is the sparkle in the sky
(Iota is Cyan)
Yellow sun, reflected in your eye
(Eta is gold (Yellow) it makes sense they're together)
Red flows through the passion in your art
(Sigma's orange, and ambitious)
Cobalt blue, the wisdom in your heart
(Alpha, Church, duh)
Dark is for the killer that's inside
(Omega is Dark (black)
Light surrounds the goodness that you hide
(This is the one I'm confused about)
Purple hearts are tugging at our sleeve
(Theta, he was blue and purple, fragment of Trust)
We stole fire, now there's nothing left to thieve
(Sigma again. Besides being orange, Prometheus created humans, and Sigma is the fragment of Creativity and Ambition)
Navneet Krishnan
+Jad Al Khatib Light could be epsilon? Or it could be tex (the light of church's life, ultimately good hearted with a cold exterior).
Khalid Brown
this is a much better comparison than trying to fit it the the humans
Keram Keramovich
+Zumapwnz Oh, I didn't know that, thanks for that. Still, it's fun to analyze and find, ah, "coincidences"
Base 330 Films
It's not related, but it's a fun comparison.
Cameron Wallace
Alpha wasn't blue. Epsilon was. Whenever alpha was shown in "ghost form" he was shown as white. So, Alpha could be the "light."
Dryocampa
"Dark is for the killer that's inside/Lights around the goodness that you hide"
If this song is describing the characters by colour does this mean Tex was actually a caring person deep, deep, deep inside :0