Paint Me lyrics

Paint me lifeless grey,

for I have lost a friend today

to desperate selfishness

and so I will regress

to something more disturbing

than all my words can say.

Black and white cannot explain,

so paint me lifeless grey.

Paint me darkest black.

Tightened ropes will never slack

to free the chosen few

or change my charcoal hue.

I may be color-coated,

but that won't hide the fact

that under shades of lifeless grey,

I'm painted darkest black.

It's just about that time of year

when we will lose somebody dear.

Is that a funeral march I hear?

It's just about that time of year.

Paint me burning red.

All the things he did and said,

now I feel ashamed.

I thought it was a game.

I will not rationalize

or justify the dead,

I only want to free myself

from all this burning red.

It's just about that time of year

when we will lose somebody dear.

Is that a funeral march I hear?

It's just about that time of year.  

(Paint me) 

(Paint me)   

(Paint me) 

(Paint me)    

(Paint me) 

(Paint me)   

(Paint me) 

(Paint me)       

(Paint me) 

(Paint me)   

(Paint me) 

(Paint me)    

• Artist:The Posies
• Album:Failure (1988)