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Blue on Black by Five Finger Death Punch: Lyrics Meaning and Interpretation

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Do you like listening to rock music? If yes then you must have heard of the American band Five Finger Death Punch. This article is based on one of their songs Blue on Black” lyrics meaning. FFDP or Five Figure Death Punch, also called 5FDP, came into being in 2005. It is a band from Las Vegas, Nevada. At first, the group was formed with Ivan Moody, Zoltan Bathory, Caleb Andrew Bingham, Matt Snell, and Jeremy Spencer. Later Darrel Roberts replaced Bingham who was again replaced in 2009 by Jason Hook. Chris Kael replaced Matt Snell after he left the band. Some issues made Spencer leave the band and later Charlie Engen joined the group. In 2020, Andy James replaced Jason Hook as the band’s leading guitarist.

Zoltan founded the band and kept the band’s name deriving it from martial arts cinema. They released their entirely self-produced first album in 2007 named The Way of the Fist. The album peaked at 199 on the Billboard 200 chart and became gold-certified by RIAA in 2011.

FFDP’s second album got released in 2009 named War is The Answer. The album peaked at number 7 on the Billboard 200 charts and earned a platinum certification from RIAA. Their third album released in 2011 named American Capitalist also earned platinum status. Five Figure Death Punch became one of the most successful heavy metal rock bands of their time having earned gold and platinum certifications for most of their albums. These include The Wong Side of Heaven and The Righteous Side of Hell released in 2013, Volume 2 of the same album released in 2013. The album group also includes Got Your Six released in 2015, and Justice For None in 2018.

In 2020, the FFDP band released their eighth album named F8 with lead single “Inside Out” and second single “A Little Bit Off”. These two songs topped the chart of the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs. The band is all set to release their ninth studio album Afterlife in 2022.

At present, the members of the band consist of

· Zoltan Bathory is the lead guitarist and founder of the band.

· Ivan Moody is the lead vocalist and keyboard player.

· Chris Kael takes care of bass and backing vocals in the band.

· Charlie Engen the drummer.

· Andy James is also the guitarist and backing vocalist.

The FFDP band follows the genre of heavy metal, hard rock, thrash metal, and so on. The sounds and their music is catchy, flashy, and energetic bass and drums. Before gaining knowledge about the Blue on Black” song lyrics meaning, let’s take a glance at the meaning of the title of the song.

What is the meaning of the title of the song?

Blue on Black” is originally a song by Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, an American blues-rock band. The song was first released as a part of their album Trouble Is in 1998. The song won the Best Rock Track of the Year and their album won Album of The Year in the 1999 Billboard Music Awards. Shepherd reworked on producing another version of the song with Five Finger Death Punch in 2019 along with Queen’s Brian May and Brantley Gilbert. According to Shepherd, the original name of the song was kept by his wife Tia who took the colors of his shirt to name the song.

The collaboration brought together classic rock, hard rock, and country music together in a unified bond. The song became a part of FFDP’s album And Justice For None which was released in 2018. In 2019 the band again produced a cover of the song along with Prospect Park Records and Eleven Seven Music. All the proceedings from the collaboration were donated to the Gary Sinise Foundation in honor of the American veterans, defenders, and their families in need. The cover of “Blue on Black” by Five Finger Death Punch has become one of the most streamed songs on the band’s album.

The reason that the band stated behind covering the song “Blue on Black” is that the song is Ivan Moody’s favorite. Another reason they stated was that the group loved performing this song live. The idea behind the song ”Blue on Black lyrics meaning seems to portray a relationship, probably showing the singer is sad while being alone.

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[Verse 1]- What does it mean?

Night falls and I’m alone

Skin, yeah, chilled me to the bone

You turned and you ran, oh, yeah

Oh, slipped right from my hands

The first verse of the song shows the singer’s sadness of being alone. He says that his lover left him all alone and ran away. But from those lines, one cannot think of why the lover ran away and left him alone.

[Chorus]- What does it mean?

Yeah

Blue on black—tears on a river

Push on a shove—it don’t mean much

Joker on jack—match on a fire

Cold on ice—a dead man’s touch

Whisper on a scream—never change a thing

Doesn’t bring you back

It’s like blue on black

The chorus presents a lot of metaphors like ‘push on a shove’, ‘joker on a jack’, and so on. The singer provides these metaphors to show that whatever things his lover has said to him, probably offending ones, can’t be taken back. Those words of her are like mixing the color blue with black where black is the most prominent one. The singer futher explains by saying that a few teardrops are meaningless in front of a whole river.

Here, the chorus can also be interpreted differently. The singer may also be lamenting and providing all those metaphors to explain his wrongdoings.

[Verse 2]- What does it mean?

Blind, oh, but now I see

Truth, lies, and in between

Wrong can’t be undone—oh, no

Well, it slipped from the tip of your tongue

With the second verse, the singer intends to say that whatever wrong the lover has done or probably he himself has done, cannot be taken back. Whatever words she has told him, those which slipped from her tongue, cannot be taken back.

[Chorus]- What does it mean?

Yeah

Blue on black—tears on a river

Push on a shove—it don’t mean much

Joker on jack—match on a fire

Cold on ice—a dead man’s touch

Whisper on a scream—never change a thing

Doesn’t bring you back

It’s blue on black

Blue on black—tears on a river

Push on a shove—it don’t mean much

Joker on jack—match on a fire

Cold on ice—a dead man’s touch

Whisper on a scream—never change a thing

Doesn’t bring you back

It’s blue on black

In the chorus, the singer repeats the metaphors to express his loneliness. Whatever bad things he/she has done do not have a recovery. Anything good thing he does will not bring his lover back.

Then the chorus repeats twice and in the end, there’s an outro to the song.

[Outro]- What does it mean?

Yeah, blue on black

Yeah, it’s blue on black

Yeah, blue on black

The outro of the song is a repetition of the phrase ‘oh blue on black’ that shows the sadness of the singer. He expresses his lament till the end of the song as whatever he does now cannot bring his beloved to him. He cannot bring back his lover now and is left all alone.

Conclusion

Blue on Black” song lyrics meaning can be interpreted in two ways. Either the singer has done something wrong that has led to their breakup, or, the lover has done something wrong. The lyrics show that blue color can never show itself if mixed with the overpowering black color. The unique music of the song makes “Blue on Black” lyrics meaning more emotional and deep.

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