“Beautiful Colors” is the third ending theme song by OneRepublic for the anime series, Kaiju No. 8, as well as the lead single to their upcoming seventh studio album, following Artificial Paradise (2024).
Frontman Ryan Tedder shares about the song:
It’s about seeing something inside someone else t...
[Verse 1]
All of the voices tell you lies
While you're in the shadows building castles in the sky
Feels like you won't ever find
What you want when your world is only black and white
But I can see behind your eyes
[Chorus]
All your beautiful colors
All of the shades you never knew
You try to hide undercover
But I see a light that's burnin' through
Yeah, I can see your (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Colors (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Beautiful colors
[Verse 2]
Know that you're running out of days tryna find something that moves you
Yeah, vultures circling around, now they're singing hallelujah
Yeah, they talking but they really ain't got much to say
Your words are like a bullet, let 'em ricochet
You've been trying to numb it all out, fading into the crowd
But I see you now (Oh)
[Chorus]
All your beautiful colors
All of the shades you never knew
You try to hide undercover
But I see a light that's burnin' through
Yeah, I can see your (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Colors (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Beautiful colors
[Outro]
Colors, colors
Colors, colors
(Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Beautiful Colors was written by Ryan Tedder & Josh Varnadore & Brent Kutzle & Tyler Spry & Jeff Owen.
Beautiful Colors was produced by Brent Kutzle.
Onerepublic released Beautiful Colors on Fri Jul 25 2025.
Ryan Tedder:
It first came to our attention, I think it was 2022—maybe 2023. We were approached by Universal Music Japan Group, our label in Japan. They said, “Hey, are any of you guys fans of manga or anime?” And we said, “Yes, we are, in fact.”
I grew up doing cartoons and drawing. I used to thi...