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Love Is Blue is a song whose music was composed by André Popp, and whose lyrics were written by Pierre Cour, in 1967. Brian Blackburn later wrote English-language lyrics for it. First performed in French by Greek singer Vicky Leandros (appearing as Vicky) as the Luxembourgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967, it has since been recorded by many other musicians, most notably French orchestra leader Paul Mauriat, whose familiar instrumental version became the only number-one hit by a French artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 in America.
"Love Is Blue" describes the pleasure and pain of love in terms of colours (blue and grey) and elements (water and wind). The English lyrics ("Blue, blue, my world is blue …") focus on colors only (blue, grey, red, green, and black), using them to describe elements of lost love. The English version by Vicky Leandros also appeared as "Colors of Love" in some locations including the UK.
And "Love Is Blue" is noted as one of the most-covered and biggest-selling Eurovision Songs ever, and remains a widely familiar melody due in part to its continued recurrence in pop-culture mediums.
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The Lyrics of Love Is Blue:
Blue, blue, my world is blue,
Blue is my world now I am without you.
Grey, grey, my life is grey,
Cold is my heart since you went away.
Red, red, my eyes are red,
Crying for you alone in my bed.
Green, green, my jealous heart,
I doubted you and now we are apart.
When we met, how the bright sun shone,
Then love died, now the rainbow is gone.
Black, black, the nights I have known,
Longing for you so lost and alone.
Gone, gone, the love we knew,
Blue is my world now I am without you.
