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Track: Man Of Colours
Artist: ICEHOUSE
Album: Man Of Colours

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Name: ICEHOUSE
Spotify Genres: synthpop
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Australian band, originally formed in 1977 as [a424148] and sounding very much like Roxy Music, the band started by playing covers of the latter together with T-Rex, David Bowie and the like... The first album [i]Icehouse[/i] was released under the moniker of Flowers. On signing to Chrysalis Records in 1981, the band changed their name to the more familiar Icehouse (named after the first album) due to potential legal issues with another band also named Flowers.

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Release: Icehouse - Man Of Colours
Year: 1987
Genres: Electronic, Rock
Styles: Soft Rock, Synth-pop

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LYRICS

There's a noise upstairs in the attic
it's the shuffle of worn out shoes
and the scent of the oil and brushes
drifts down like a pale perfume

and he says, I...
I am a man,
a simple man,
...a man of colours,
and I can see
see through the years,
years of a man,
...a man of colours;


and the old man rubs his failing eyes
and takes a moment to watch the view
from a window nobody knows is there
he can see the empty street below

[chorus]

he says,
I keep my life in this paintbox
I keep your face in these picture frames
and when I speak to this faded canvas it tells me
I have no need for words anyway...;

[chorus]

and he says, I...
I am a man,
a simple man,
...a man of colours,
and I can see
see through the tears,
tears of a man,
...a man of colours;