[Intro] [fingerpicked acoustic guitar alone] [female alto, smoky low register, dry close-miked] [English lyrics, restrained, conversational, never breathy] [Verse 1] There's a color at the bottom of the drawer folded like a thing I never say I bought it in a season I was braver then I hung it up and looked the other way [Verse 2] Grey keeps a promise it never made me that nobody looks and nobody leaves so I wore that promise like a borrowed coat with the collar up around my sleeves [Pre-Chorus] [warm electric piano enters underneath] But a color is a sentence and I've been quiet long enough [Chorus] [upright bass and brushed drums enter, restrained] So put the purple on the one that doesn't blend warm enough to hold you cold enough to stand it was never made for hiding it was never made for crowds put the purple on and say the thing out loud [Verse 3] [band stays in, low and steady] Kings drowned a whole sea to get this shade now it's four coins and a hanger and a shrug the cheap part was always the fabric the expensive part is standing up [Chorus] put the purple on the one that doesn't blend warm enough to hold you cold enough to stand it was never made for hiding it was never made for crowds put the purple on and say the thing out loud [Bridge] [arrangement thins to guitar and voice] Corner of a Wednesday, half past rain someone passed me in the same dark shade we didn't stop, we didn't trade a name just a nod, like a password no one made [Final Chorus] [full arrangement returns, fuller not louder, lifts to major] So put the purple on let the whole street learn it the ones who wear it looking are the ones who earn it it was never made for hiding it was never made for crowds put the purple on and say the thing out loud [Outro] [guitar alone, last chord left ringing] say the thing out loud [End]
