"My friends and I used to sing that part as "I'm blue, if I was green I would die." we were in elementary so we thought the person's favorite color was blue and they hated the color green, so if they were green, they wouldn't like it. Then, the vocals were distorted using a device called "vocoder" and so it sounds strange and mysterious, but there’s no secret message there.Īnyway, my favourite comment comes from Ranna (Boondocks, IA), who says: Well, reality is often less exciting, and the truth is that the chorus says exactly that, "Da Ba Dee, Da Ba Die". Some popular interpretations are: "I’m blue and I’m in need of a guy / in Auberdeen I would die / and I believe I will die". If you listen carefully to it, it is not easy to know what it says, so there has been lots of opinions about what is "the secret message" contained in that cryptic sentence. When you are depressed, even the trees and the sky looks sad and depressing.īut the most interesting thing here is the chorus, the magic line " Da Ba Dee, Da Ba Die". He feels so sad that all his life and everything around him looks depressing.
So the most obvious meaning for this song is the life of a man who is depressed. The music style called " blues" is a sad kind of music.
" The blues" means depression, so you can say " I've got the blues" ( I'm depressed) or " That gives me the blues" ( that makes me feel sad). IT’S STANDING OUTSIDE= He refers to his car (a corvette), which is parked outside.įirst of all, let’s say that in English blue is the colour of sadness, so the expression " I’m blue" means " I’m sad, I’m depressed". Notice that in these examples we’re using the double negative (ain’t / nobody), which is incorrect in standard English but quite common in slang (very colloquial English).ĭA BA DEE= We’ve already talked about this line in the section about the general meaning of the song. I ain’t got nobody= I haven’t got anybody. Or maybe this really means "his self", which is "his inner essence".ĪIN’T (coll.)= The negative form of the verbs "to be" and "to have": There guys, money doesn’t bring happiness.ĮVERYTHING IS BLUE FOR HIM= From his point of view (in his opinion) everything is sad.ĪND HIS SELF= In some English dialects they use "his-self" instead of "himself". Listen up= A more emphatic way to say "Listen".īLUE HIS HOUSE= A shortened sentence which means "his house is blue".ĬORVETTE= An expensive brand of car ( you can see the picture here), so this depressed man is rich. YO! (slang)= A cry used as a greeting or to attract someone's attention. About a little guy that lives in a blue worldīlue are the streets and all the trees are tooīlue are the people here that walk aroundīlue like my corvette, it's standing outsideīlue are the words I say and what I thinkīlue are the feelings that live inside me
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