Soaking through
Comes and holds itself against the wall
Soaking through
Comes and holds itself against the wall

Hold your colours against the wall,
When they take everything away,
Hold your colours against the wall

Soaking through

Hold your colours against the wall,
When they take everything away,
Hold your colours against the wall

Soaking through

Ahhh, she looked into your eyes,
And saw what laid beneath,
Don't try to save yourself,
The circle is complete,
We're reaching out and to tell you,
Nothing else can touch me

Soaking through

Hold your colours against the wall,
When they take everything away,
Hold your colours against the wall

Soaking through

Ahhh, she looked into your eyes,
And saw what laid beneath,
Don't try to save yourself,
The circle is complete

Fading gently,
Soaking through,

We're reaching out and to take you,
Nothing else can touch me

Soaking through

Hold your colours against the wall,
When they take everything away,
Hold your colours against the wall

Soaking through

Hold your colours against the wall,
When they take everything away,
Hold your colours against the wall



Lyrics submitted by smooth_ann

Track duration: 07:14

"Hold Your Colour" as written by Robert Swire Thompson

Lyrics © CHRYSALIS MUSIC GROUP

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    My Interpretation:The meaning is pretty simple for me. its about how fast the time goes, and here's some arguments:

    1. hold your colours against the wall like on egyptian wall paintings that go through history.
    2. when they take everything away - time goes by and you lose everything no matter what.
    3. in bipolar remix - Don't leave it to waste, Time is slipping away, No time to play, time is just shining through space. - pretty obvious in this one
    4. The ship has been destroyed, This is just the water, Soaking through: How the time makes the ship sink in the water, how ancient cities sink in the sand.

    Not everything matches but, i find these pretty significant to "my" meaning
    Flag Skynetuson April 30, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:twisting the knife? huh..always thought it was present the night or something..
    Flag RaV3Ti77D3athon September 20, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:In my opinion, when he says
    "twisted the knife
    (opened your eyes)

    It sounds more like

    "I twisted the knife
    (which opened your eyes)"
    Flag Lalax3on February 21, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:I used this song for my piece that i was doing on ne of my canvases and it inspired me as i painted. My favorite.
    Flag [s]aint.on September 18, 2010   Link
  • 0
    My Opinion:This song is personally one of my favorite Pendulum songs. The movement of the rhythm and the music behind it creates such an amazing visual for me, I could just listen to it on repeat forever.
    Flag sixteenmistakeson August 22, 2010   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:I never really thought of pendulum's songs to have real meanings, more over that they drew inspiration from external sources, and out comes the song. This one may have a meaning stitches in it, but who the hell cares? it's not like it's probably been said in another song, i prefer to just listen to the beat, cause this song kicks ass.
    Flagged Wexon February 22, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:You sure it's "looked into your eyes". It sounded more like "looked into your lies"
    Flag Gldyonsongmeaningson November 01, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:It's good that a song means different things to different people.

    My wife left me with the 3 kids 18 months ago. I felt like I fkn lost everything, my manhood, my ability to support my family, my freedom, my dreams for the future, the person who I thought loved me. I felt like she and her new man, 'they' had taken everything away. My 'colour' was my pride, and doing everything I could for my kids... thats all I had man, and thats what I showed, held my head up, showed no weakness. My pride, my strength (my colours) thats what held me up (against the wall), kept me off my fkn knees.

    What was soaking through was hurt man, and despair, but somehow holding my colours against the wall, showing my good, kept that down. And you know, the knife is still being twisted, she's a hard bitch, but its opened my eyes to her, and does afresh everytime she twists. Opened my eyes to the person I can be too, she was killing me when we were together... I never saw that, do now though...

    I've seen a few girls since being single, but fell for one... she's in my heart so much, and she has been the only person who has seen inside me, who's touched me... "she looked into my eyes n saw what lay beneath" - that line is so true for my angel... My circle's not complete....yet...

    Thats what that song has meant to me... I dunno what the boys were getting at when they wrote it, but early on, when it was really tough for me, Hold Your Colour, cranked up, was like my athem of defiance and hope, thanks fellas...
    Flag mosher09on June 07, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:"soaking through
    colours that held us up against the wall"

    I think this means knowledge being understood and being put up to your viewing personal viewing.

    Goes with: "she looked into your eyes and saw what lay beneath
    don't try to save yourself - the circle is complete" pretty well
    Flag Xalgaron February 04, 2009   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:I agree with mostly everything that people are saying. But I think that "she looked into your eyes and saw what lay beneath, don't try to save yourself - the circle is complete" is talking about fate.
    I think the girl saw him for who he truly was, and their true colors connected into one. This created the complete circle, or, the two people being discussed completed each others personalities because they were meant for each other.
    Flag MirandaTragedyon January 12, 2009   Link

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