Blue is a song composed by Yoko Kanno, and recorded by the Seatbelts. It is sung by Mai Yamane and is also the opening title track to the album of the same name. It is one of the few songs from Cowboy Bebop to be sung entirely in English by Yamane. It was also included on the Cowboy Bebop Boxed Set, CD 3.
The song features as Spike collapses to the ground unconscious after killing Vicious. It replaced The Real Folk Blues as the ending song.[1]
Description[]
The song opens with a chorus sung by Soichiro Otsuka and Gabriela Robin (in Latin), who returns in the bridge of the song singing exactly the same chorus, while the remainder of the song is a slowly progressing rock tune in the key of G# Major.
Lyrics[]
Lesu messiah ut; tu mea di cantus
Lesu messiah ut; tu mea di cantus
Lesu messiah ut; tu mea di cantus
Lesu messiah ut; tu mea di cantus
Never seen a bluer sky
Yeah, I can feel it reaching out
And moving closer
There's something about blue
Asked myself what it's all for
You know, the funny thing about it
I couldn't answer
No, I couldn't answer
Things have turned a deeper shade of blue
And images that might be real
Maybe illusion
Keep flashing off and on
Free
Wanna be free
Gonna be free
And move among the stars
You know, they really aren't so far
Feels so free
Gotta know free
Please
Don't wake me from the dream
It's really everything it seemed
I'm so free
No black and white in the blue
Everything is clearer now
Life is just a dream, you know
That's never-ending
I'm ascending