'Colorblind' by Gavin Adcock – Lyrics & Meaning

Gavin Adcock fans haven't experienced a dry spell since the artist crashed onto the scene a little over a year ago. It feels like the rowdy, young country star dropped a song a month ahead of his 2025 full-length album, Own Worst Enemy, and, still, into the New Year, the tunes have kept on coming.

Now, closely following the winter releases of 'Perfect Man' and 'Winner at Losing', comes his latest single, 'Colorblind'.

The fresh track is among Adcock's more intimate offerings, the heartbroken soliloquy showcasing the softer side of this raucous hitmaker.

At the start, 'Colorblind' is all subtle acoustics, the song carried on inconsequential strums and a steady, plucky riff. This remains the heart of the song throughout. Then, a flourish of electric strings and a swell of pedal steel briefly peppers the mix before the tune erupts come the chorus.

With the hook, the song take off on a full-band odyssey of anthemic drums and arena-ready power chords, before dying back into the gentle melody that began this voyage. Faithfully, though, each chorus produces the same explosion, mirroring the passion in Adcock's words.

"My days feel about as dark,
As that coffee that starts my morning
It ain’t rained a drop,
But somehow it’s still storming"

'Colorblind' finds Adcock going through it. At the top of the song, he sings of a despair that has recently fallen over him, a feeling that has made his days seem dark and stormy.

In the next verse, listeners get insight into what has caused this anguish when he sings: "Used to be dirty blonde streaks / Resting on my chest / And every night I’d find her hand in mine in the middle of a sunset."

It appears that a love has been lost. A relationship that once filled the singer's life with color is now over and Adcock is left seeing life in shades of gray.

"Now all I see,
Is a shade of what it was
And her memory
Is fading because
When she packed her bags,
She took the green grass,
And the blue out of the sky
Ever since she left
I’ve been colorblind"

He's heartbroken and his life is no longer as vibrant and spirited as it once was when his partner was around. He goes on to contemplate the current state of his ex-lover, knowing very well that they are in better shape than he is right now.

"Wherever she is now," he sings. "Bet it’s got a vibrant glow of heaven / I wish I could hit rewind / Turn back time / To when her eyes would light up mine"

All in all, life doesn't look the same when the people we love are no longer around. Whether from a parting of ways or an outright loss, an absence can drain the vividity from our days.

My days feel about as dark,
As that coffee that starts my morning
It ain’t rained a drop,
But somehow it’s still storming

Used to be dirty blonde streaks
Resting on my chest
And every night I’d find her hand in mine in the middle of a sunset

Now all I see,
Is a shade of what it was
And her memory
Is fading because
When she packed her bags,
She took the green grass,
And the blue out of the sky
Ever since she left
I’ve been colorblind

Wherever she is now,
Bet it’s got a vibrant glow of heaven
I wish I could hit rewind,
Turn back time,
To when her eyes would light up mine

Now all I see,
Is a shade of what it was
And her memory
Is fading because
When she packed her bags,
She took the green grass,
And the blue out of the sky
Ever since she left
I’ve been Colorblind

It ain’t like a damn thing’s changed,
But it just don’t look the same

Now all I see,
Is a shade of what it was
And her memory
Is fading because
When she packed her bags,
She took the green grass,
And the blue out of the sky
Ever since she left
I’ve been Colorblind
Colorblind

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