Anger!
Anger!  He smiles towering in shiny metallic purple armor.
Queen Jealousy envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown stares at the grassy ground.
Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted, they quietly understand.
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready, but wonder why the fight is on.

    But they're all bold as love.    Yes they're all  bold as love
    Yeah!  They're all bold as love.  Just ask the Axis...

My red is so confident he flashes portraits of war, and visions of euphoria.
Orange is young, full of daring, but very unsteady for the first go round.
My yellow in this case is not so mellow, in fact I'm trying to say, it's frightened like me.
And all these emotions of mine keep pulling me from giving my love to a rainbow like you,   but I'm uh...

    But they're all bold as love.    Yes they're all  bold as love
    Yeah!  They're all bold as love.  Just ask the Axis...He knows ev'ry thing
Jimi Hendrix: 1942-1970

The first time I heard Bold as Love, Phish was encoring with it in New Haven in December 1995. On my setlist, I wrote "Something really, really, really, really good." I had no idea what it was, and it would be another two years before I would really get into it. Sam showed me the lyrics on paper and I freaked.
 

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