The song describes the pleasure and pain of love in terms of colours (blue and gray) and elements (water and wind). The English lyrics ("Blue, blue, my world is blue...") focus on colors only (blue, gray, red, green, and black), using them to describe elements of lost love. An odd twist in the lyric uses the word "gone" in the same pattern used to introduce each color.

In late 1967, Paul Mauriat conducted an orchestral "easy listening" version that was a number-one hit in the USA for five weeks in February and March of 1968, becoming the only performance by a French artist ever to top the Billboard Hot 100. Not surprisingly, the song spent 11 weeks atop Billboard's Easy Listening survey, and held the longest-lasting title honors on this chart for 25 years. It is the best-known version of the song in the United States.

"L'amour est bleu"/"Love is Blue" is noted as one of the most-covered and biggest-selling Eurovision Songs ever, and remains a widely familiar melody due in part to its continued recurrence in pop-culture mediums. Jeff Beck, Claudine Longet, The Dells, Ed Ames, Johnny Mathis, Marty Robbins, Al Martino, Frank Sinatra, Lawrence Welk, Chara, Michèle Torr, and Stephin Merritt (of Future Bible Heroes) are among the artists who have covered it. [1]

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