Colour My Life background. Paul Heard is playing bass guitar and Mike Pickering on the keyboards, not their normal instruments to play and also a drummer percussionist and two lively backing singers co-ordinating dance moves with their arms. The artwork of the single combines the lines used in the limited release to become four colourful "flowers" that consist of differently coloured red, blue, green and purple circles which is very much in-keeping with the big red flower illustration that is on the parent's album's artwork. Colour My Life "Colour My Life" is the second single from British band M People from their first
Flowers Are Red in a corner. Finally, the now terrified little boy gives in and tells the teacher that "flowers are red, and green leaves are green." When he goes to a different school, a new teacher encourages her students to use all sorts of colors, only to find the student only coloring his flowers red and green; when the new teacher asks the boy why, he meekly responds by quoting his previous teacher—"flowers are red, and green leaves are green." In the live concert versions, Chapin extended the song's ending to: "There still must be a way to have our children say..."