2. Grace Kelly
Do I attract you? (1)
Do I repulse you with my queasy
smile? (2)
Am I too dirty? (3)
Am I too flirty? (4)
Am I too dirty? (3)
Am I too flirty? (4)
I could be wholesome (6) I could be
3. Grace Kelly
I could be brown (16) I could be blue
(17) I could be violet sky (18) I could
be hurtful (19) I could be purple (20) I
could be anything you like (21) Gotta
be green (22) Gotta be mean
(23) Gotta be everything more
(24) Why don’t you like me? (25) Why
don’t you like me? (26) Why don’t you
walk out the door(27)
How can I help it (28) How can I help
it (29) How can I help what you think?
(30)
4. Grace Kelly
Hello my baby (31) Hello my baby (32) Putting my life on the
brink (33) Why don’t you like me (34) Why don’t you like me
(35) Why don’t you like yourself? (36) Should I bend over? (37)
Should I look older just to be put on the shelf? (38) I try to be
like Grace Kelly (39) But all her looks were too sad (40) So I try
a little Freddie (41) I’ve gone identity mad! (42) I could be
brown (43) I could be blue (44) I could be violet sky (45) I
could be hurtful (46) I could be purple (47) I could be anything
you like (48)
5. Grace Kelly
anything you like (49) Gotta be green (50) Gotta be mean (51) Gotta
be everything more (52) Why don’t you like me? (53) Why don’t you
like me? (54) Why don’t you walk out the door! (55) Say what you
want to satisfy yourself (56) But you only want what everybody else
says you should want (57) I could be brown (58) I could be blue (59) I
could be violet sky (60) I could be hurtful (61) I could be purple (62) I
could be anything you like (63) Gotta be green (64) Gotta be mean
(65) Gotta be everything more (66) Why don’t you like me? (67) Why
don’t you like me? (68) Why don’t you walk out the door! (69)
9. Grace Kelly
Chorus/Refrain
I could be brown (58) I could be blue (59) I
could be violet sky (60) I could be hurtful
(61) I could be purple (62) I could be
anything you like (63) Gotta be green
(64) Gotta be mean (65) Gotta be
everything more (66) Why don’t you like
me? (67) Why don’t you like me? (68) Why
don’t you walk out the door! (69)
This line is repeated 3 times and the lines change after
every time they appear.
13. Grace Kelly
Idiom
I could be brown (43) I
could be blue (44) I could
be violet sky (45) I could
be hurtful (46) I could be
purple (47)
When he says I can be brown… he doesn’t actually
mean that he is going to turn a certain color. So
therefore he is using an idiom. He is saying
something that is not meant to be taken literally.
14. Grace Kelly
Symbolism
I could be brown (43) I could
be blue (44) I could be violet
sky (45) I could be hurtful
(46) I could be purple (47)
By saying that he can be brown… he is showing that
he is willing to change for her. He’s not actually changing color.
15. Grace Kelly
Metaphor
I could be brown (16) I could be
blue (17) I could be violet sky (18) I
could be hurtful (19) I could be
purple (20) I could be anything you
like (21) Gotta be green (22) Gotta
be mean (23)
He is comparing himself to a rainbow.
16. Grace Kelly
Hyperbole
I’ve gone identity mad! (15)
This is a hyperbole because he is not actually going to
mad it is an exaggeration and he is comparing his
ability to change for her to a mad person.
18. Grace Kelly
Sight
Do I repulse you with my queasy smile? (2)
By say he has a queasy smile it gives you a picture of
how he would look when he smiles.
19. Grace Kelly
Sight
But all her looks were too sad (40)
Whenever you say that her looks were sad it puts an
image in you’re mind of how she looks.
20. Grace Kelly
Sight
So I try a little Freddie (41)
You can see him trying to seduce her by trying
to act like Freddie.
