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Cher

Red

Release date: 2013

From Closer To the Truth (Deluxe Version)
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About This Track

'Red' by Cher is a track from 'Closer To the Truth (Deluxe Version)' and was released in 2013. The lyrics centre on overwhelming perception and emotional collapse, repeatedly returning to the image of everything turning “red”. Elsewhere, the song evokes panic and aftermath, with sirens in the head and warnings in the air, then moves through images of being lost at sea, surrounded by sharks, and unable to be rescued. It is a vivid, claustrophobic portrait of danger and helplessness.

"Red" is a track by Cher, from the album Closer To the Truth (Deluxe Version), released 2013. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Cher

Cher

Lyrics

Red

[Chorus]

All I see is red, now

Just can't dream nothing else

All I see is red, now

I'm drowning, no one can help

[Verse 1]

Sirens through my head, everything you said

Floating lost at sea with sharks around our bed

Wish I heard the call when it was the end

Warnings filled the air, but it was too late to pretend

We were living in black and white

Under the grayest sky

Since we've been over, it won't stop

[Chorus]

All I see is red, now

Just can't dream nothing else

All I see is red, now

I'm drowning, no one can help

[Post-Chorus]

It's all around me

Red from my heart, red like my blood

Red from my lips when you told me you were done

Red, now

All I see is red, now

[Verse 2]

Used to be that you were every color of my life

A rainbow shining through the rain, cuttin' like a knife

'Cause you were my obsession every night and every day

So when we fell apart, the blue was more than I could take

We were living in black and white

Under the grayest sky

Since we've been over, it won't stop

[Bridge]

All I see is red, red

All I see is red, red

[Post-Bridge]

It's all around me

Red from my heart, red like my blood

Red from my lips when you told me you were done

Red, now

All I see is red, now

[AdLibs]

Red from my heart, red like my blood

Red from my lips when you told me you were done

Red from my heart, red like my blood

Red from my lips when you told me you were done

[Outro]

Red, now

Just can't dream nothing else

All I see is red, now

I'm drowning, no one can help

It's all around me

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Track details

From Closer To the Truth (Deluxe Version)

2013
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    Production & Engineering

    Writer
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    Producer
    JD Walker, Jeff Fenster, Josh Crosby
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    Chris “TEK” O’Ryan, Josh Gudwin, Kuk Harrell
    Vocals
    Cher
    Assistant Engineer
    Miguel Lara
    Background Vocals
    Josie Aiello, Kuk Harrell
    Mixing Engineer
    John Hanes, Șerban Ghenea
    Vocal Producer
    Kuk Harrell
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