Get Lyrical: The Lost Colors' "Blame"

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This week’s focus on Get Lyrical is a female-fronted, Christian-oriented band that writes anthemic power pop ballads with a positive message. No, we’re not talking about Paramore. We’re talking about the Wichita-based Lost Colors. But don’t dismiss them as a clone just yet, because on tracks like Blame the rockers prove that they have plenty to offer besides obvious comparisons to Hayley Williams and Co.

The song opens with the line, “You lie there motionless and empty as the sky crashes down/The stars continue to fall down like heavy rain, bringing your dreams to the ground.” Not the most uplifting imagery to come from a Christian rock group. And the song doesn’t get any cheerier in the second verse, as frontwoman Ellie Gorman sings about past regrets and the “shadows of your mind.” But the Lost Colors have a plan”by presenting this bleak perspective in the track’s early lines, they make the advice they dispense in the chorus seem all the more valuable: “When life drags you down, don’t you give up on yourself/Stop the blame.”

The band says the track speaks of taking responsibility of one’s actions rather than blaming others for their mistakes. And with the powerful guitars that back up the song’s forceful chorus, you can’t help but listen to that suggestion. Luckily, that doesn’t mean the group isn’t sympathetic, admitting “I know that it’s easy to blame everyone for our own lack of motivation/I know that it’s easy to blame everyone than fixing our own situations.” Uplifting rock that shares a message without being preachy? We can get into that! Check out “Blame” below.

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