Rainbow

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“Rainbow,” a song that dodie originally shared on YouTube back in June 2018, is a song about the shame that is put upon people who are a part of LGBTQ+ and shares that they… Read More

Dec. 11, 20201 viewer46.1K views

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Rainbow Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I was brought up in a line
But I seem to walk in circles
It's getting hard to navigate
When every map was never made for me
And I thought it would feel good
To understand why I was different
But my title just talks over me
I never even asked to be this way

[Chorus]
But to say that I'm a rainbow
To tell me that I'm bright
When I'm so used to feeling wrong
Well, it makes me feel alright

[Verse 2]
I didn't think it fair
I was not to be trusted
How can I be proud of
What a million people shout at me I'm not?
So please step inside my soul
I'd love to watch you gasp
You'd understand in minutes
And I'd like to think you'd miss it
'Cause so would I

[Chorus]
So say that I'm a rainbow
And tell me that I'm bright
When I'm so used to feeling wrong
Well, it makes me feel alright
Oh, so say that I'm a rainbow
And tell me that I'm bright
When I'm so used to feeling wrong
Well, it makes me feel alright

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About

“Rainbow,” a song that dodie originally shared on YouTube back in June 2018, is a song about the shame that is put upon people who are a part of LGBTQ+ and shares that they shouldn’t feel shameful of who they are.

The song was posted during Pride Month at the time in support of LGBTQ+ people, whom she identifies with as well.

On December 11, 2020, the official version of “Rainbow” was released as a single for dodie’s debut album, Build A Problem, and as the first of a series of songs on the album that were all connected by a 13 piece string section.

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What have the artists said about the song?

I wrote this two or three years ago. I’d come out as bi, and I still wasn’t feeling entirely sure about myself. I still don’t. It was tough because the world was telling me that it was absolutely fine, and yet I still felt such an internal struggle with it. It’s a very sweet song, but there’s a sadness to it.

—via Apple Music

What did dodie say about "Rainbow"?

In the description of its video, Dodie shared:

This is a song I wrote around the shame LGBTQ+ people go through, and therefore the importance of “pride” and the rainbow and flags etc and just how needed and helpful it all is to combat that feeling.

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