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Anger, he smiles,
Towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground
Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted,
They quietly understand
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready,
But wonder why the fight is on
But they're all bold as love, yeah, they're all bold as love
Yeah, they're all bold as love
Just ask the axis
My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war,
And ribbons of euphoria
Orange is young, full of daring,
But very unsteady for the first go round
My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact I'm trying to say it's frightened like me
And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from, eh,
Giving my life to a rainbow like you
But, I'm bold as love, yeah, I'm bold as love
Yeah, yeah
Well I'm bold, bold as love (hear me talking, girl)
I'm bold as love
Just ask the axis (he knows everything)
Yeah,
Yeah,
Yeah!
Towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground
Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted,
They quietly understand
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready,
But wonder why the fight is on
But they're all bold as love, yeah, they're all bold as love
Yeah, they're all bold as love
Just ask the axis
My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war,
And ribbons of euphoria
Orange is young, full of daring,
But very unsteady for the first go round
My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact I'm trying to say it's frightened like me
And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from, eh,
Giving my life to a rainbow like you
But, I'm bold as love, yeah, I'm bold as love
Yeah, yeah
Well I'm bold, bold as love (hear me talking, girl)
I'm bold as love
Just ask the axis (he knows everything)
Yeah,
Yeah,
Yeah!
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Like the Doors' Crystal Ship, this song touches on many references and has multiple meanings.
What I think he was referring to in this song is the whole spectrum of human emotion, or to say his emotions. He substitutes his emotions for all colors and the colors can also represent a rainbow; the rainbow represents the "beauty" of emotions and expressing yourself. But, he also sees each emotion as a character, and each of these "characters" are symbolic to the variety of his emotions within himself as an artist. Then, he refers to each character as bold, more specifically, bold as love. From which, he isolates each emotion saying they are all unique and bold.
To me, the song is pretty self explanitory -- especially when you consider that "axis" doesn't necessarily have to mean the earth's axis. In context with the song, the axis of reflection symmetry fits perfectly. And as far as the line, "Bold as love" anyone who's been in love can attest to just how bold love actually is. It's an emotion that's contantly wavering. It's a vast mix of feelings jammed into one - yet spread out infinitely. It's a true paradox.
Even being in love for so long, you still experience anger, jealously, desperation, fear, loathing, longing, etc. To equate emotions with the color of a rainbow is fitting -- I don't think it has anything to do with acid. In fact, I think that's a downside to having used drugs: everyone thinks everything you do is drug related.
As far as the acid things goes: Jimi was heavy on acid, as many hippies were at the time. His music is obviously heavily influenced by LSD but that doesn't mean you have to listen to it on acid to enjoy it. Seeing the colors... that's a normal thing with acid. You don't have to be listening to music to see pretty colors. Drop and go out into the woods, camping. You'll see. :3
In fact Im trying to say its frigthened like me. By all means it could be a song about his feels on war and that he could never love war. By no means does it have to be a song about a relationship though to be fair a lot of his music brings up a relationship feeling. Don’t take drungs into acount when talking about music because in the end the singer isn’t going to want his fans to go do drugs just to listen to the music.