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COLORS BY HALSEY IS LITERALLY SO NESS CODED FROM MY NESS AND MAD TWIN BROTHER AU!!

Colors by Halsey ~ Song Analysis

Background info: Ness and Mad had a rough childhood with an abusive father. Their mother left them when they were little.

Your little brother never tells you but he loves you so (Refering to Mad never telling Ness he loves him so their relationship is more strained than Ness would like and makes him think that Mad may not love him)

You said your mother only smiled on her TV show (Their mother loved her little boys and showed them all the love in the world and put on a little happy facade until she left them because she couldn't deal with their father)

You're only happy when your sorry head is filled with dope (Ness has smoked since he was a teen because he couldn't deal with the guilt and trauma)

I hope you make it to the day you're 28 years old (Ness struggled as a young adult because he didn't know to function as one, no one taught him how to be one)

You're dripping like a saturated sunrise (Even despite everything Ness tries to bring happiness to the people he loves and cherishes every moment with them)

You're spilling like an overflowing sink (Can refer to Ness spilling his guts out for people to see, choosing to be vulnerable in front of them. Or Mad overflowing with negative emotions from trauma and letting them spill without thinking)

You're ripped at every edge but you're a masterpiece (Ness still loves Mad and his father even though they put him through so much shit. He loves so much without receiving any in return)

And now you're tearing through the pages and the ink (Trying to find the real Ness under all that fake facade he puts up)

Everything is blue

His pills, his hands, his jeans

And now I'm covered in the colors

Pulled apart at the seams

And it's blue

And it's blue (The sadness Ness feels but still making others feel worth something and happy)

Everything is grey

His hair, his smoke, his dreams (Ness giving up on his dreams of being an actor because no matter what he does he'll just be in his brother's shadow, a serial killer's twin brother. His grey hair is from the substance abuse and smoke that makes him look more aged than Mad)

And now he's so devoid of color

He don't know what it means

And he's blue

And he's blue (Despite loving Mad it drains him. It's hard to love someone who doesn't show any appreciation for you. Ness feels empty with every interation he has with his brother)

You were a vision in the morning

When the light came through (Ness perhaps experiencing hallucinations from substance abuse. His mother most likely)

I know I've only felt religion when I've lied with you (Ness used to pray everyday that his mother would take him and his brother away from their father. His mother was religious and taught Ness some of her beliefs)

You said you'll never be forgiven 'til your boys are too (Ness may have forgiven his mother for leaving but will never forgive his father for hurting them)

And I'm still waking every morning but it's not with you (Ness still misses their cuddle pile that included his mother and Mad. He dreams of her but when he awakes he's always disappointed)

You're dripping like a saturated sunrise

You're spilling like an overflowing sink

You're ripped at every edge but you're a masterpiece

And now you're tearing through the pages and the ink

Everything is blue

His pills, his hands, his jeans

And now I'm covered in the colors

Pulled apart at the seams

And it's blue

And it's blue

Everything is grey

His hair, his smoke, his dreams

And now he's so devoid of color

He don't know what it means

And he's blue

And he's blue

You were red and you liked me 'cause I was blue

But you touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky

And you decided purple just wasn't for you (Mad loving the attention Ness gives him but when Ness starts trying to form a real connection with him he becomes distant and annoyed by Ness, deeming him as a nuisance)

Everything is blue

His pills, his hands, his jeans

And now I'm covered in the colors

Pulled apart at the seams

And it's blue

And it's blue

Everything is grey

His hair, his smoke, his dreams

And now he's so devoid of color

He don't know what it means

And he's blue

And he's blue

Everything is blue

Everything is blue

Everything is blue

Everything is blue

You can always try to tell me I’m wrong, but Colors by Halsey will always sound like Percabeth to me

Like tell me this progression isn’t Percy Jackson and the Olympians fading into Heroes of Olympus