Waste of Paint lyrics - Bright Eyes
See the full Waste of Paint lyrics from Bright Eyes. Waste of Paint lyrics belongs on the album Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground. Learn every word of your favourite song and get the meaning or start your own concert tonight :-). Rate this song's lyrics. Uploaded by Boyce. Use it for personal and educational purposes only. Listen to these sick beats by Bright Eyes.
Waste of Paint lyrics
I have a friend, he's mostly made of pain
He wakes up, drives to work and straight back home again
He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper
I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover
And I tried to tell him he had a sense
Of color and composition so magnificent
And he said, "Thank you, please
But your flattery
It's truly not becoming me
Your eyes are poor, you're blind you see
No beauty could have come from me
I'm a waste
Of breath, of space, of time"
I knew a woman, she was dignified and true
Her love for her man was one of her many virtues
Until one day she found out that he had lied
And decided the rest of her life from that point on would be a lie
She was grateful for everything that had happened
And she was anxious for all that would come next
But then she wept, what did you expect?
In that big old house with the car she kept
And, "Such is life," she often said
With one day leading to the next
You get a little closer to your death
Which was fine with her, she never got upset
And with all the days she may have left
She would never clean another mess
Or fold his shirts or look her best
She was free
To waste away alone
Last night, my brother he got drunk and drove
And this cop he pulled him off to the side of the road
And he said, "Officer, officer, you've got the wrong man
No, no, I'm a student of medicine, a son of a banker, you don't understand"
The cop said, "No one got hurt, you should be thankful
And your carelessness, it is something awful
And no, I can't just let you go
And though your father's name is known
Your decisions now are yours alone
You're nothing but a stepping stone
On a path
To debt, to loss, to shame"
The last few months I've been living with this couple
Yeah, you know the kind who buy everything in doubles
Yeah, they fit together like a puzzle
I love their love, and I am thankful
That someone actually receives the prize that was promised
By all those fairy tales that drugged us
And still do me, I'm sick, lonely
No laurel tree, just green envy
Will my number come up eventually?
Like love's some kind of lottery
Where you scratch and see what's underneath
It's sorry, just one cherry
I'll play again, get lucky
So now I hang out down by the train's depot
No, I don't ride, I just sit and watch the people there
The remind me of windup cars in motion
The way they spin and turn and jockey for positions
And I want to scream out that it all is nonsense
And their life's one track and can't they see it's pointless?
But just then my knees give under me
My head feels weak and suddenly
It's clear to see it's not them but me
Who's lost my self-identity
And I hide behind these books I read
While scribbling my poetry
Like art could save a wretch like me
With some ideal ideology
That no one could hope to achieve
And I'm never real, it's just a sketch of me
And everything I've made is trite and cheap
And a waste
Of paint, of tape, of time
So I park my car down by the cathedral
Where the floodlights point up at the steeples
Choir practice is filling up with people
I hear the sound escaping as an echo
Sloping off the ceiling at an angle
When the voices blend they sound like angels
I hope there's some room still in the middle
But when I lift my voice up now to reach them
The range is too high way up in heaven
So I hold my tongue, forget the song
Tie my shoes, start walking off
And try to just keep moving on
With my broken heart and my absent God
And I have no faith but it's all I want
To be loved, and believe
In my soul, in my soul
More Bright Eyes lyrics
- Beginner's Mind Lyrics
- I Will Be Grateful For This Day Lyrics
- True Blue Lyrics
- Road To Joy Lyrics
- A Perfect Sonnet Lyrics
- Silent Night Lyrics
- The First Noel Lyrics
- Amy In The White Coat Lyrics
- Mirrors & Fevers Lyrics
- Emily, Sing Something Sweet Lyrics
- Coyote Song Lyrics
- Take It Easy (Love Nothing) Lyrics
- Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man Lyrics
- The Difference In The Shades Lyrics
- Trees Get Wheeled Away Lyrics
- Tereza And Tomas Lyrics
- When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under G.. Lyrics
- Spent On Rainy Days Lyrics
- When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under G.. Lyrics
- Poison Oak Lyrics
Related Bright Eyes lyrics.
Related Waste of Paint lyrics.
Songs from same album Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Well, the animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness. A baby cries hard in an apartment complex, as I pass in a car buried under the influence. The city's dr...
I picked you out of a crowd and talked to you I said I liked your shoes You said, "Thanks, can I follow you?" So it's up the stairs and out of view...
I have a friend, he's mostly made of pain He wakes up, drives to work and straight back home again He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper I thoug...
You say that I treat you like a book on a shelf I don't take you out that often 'cause I know that I completed you and that's why you are here That's the rea...
Recent lyrics
- girl riend lrics
- i make you breakfast in bed ..
- quadir lateef mahgrib
- your freakin
- dissing 41
- i'll be the possession you r..
- not creepy at all drale
- it just kills to
- with old news
- crash site struggle jennings
- lonely ogba lyric
- hamba wena gwija
- wajapo maadui wangu
- bugoy na koykoy ganon parin
- ebezina by osadebe instrumen..
- olivia rodrigo with repetition
- blaq diamond away lyrics
- you can make a guitar sound ..
- nyanda mlola nyimbo mpya 202..
- ???? ???? ????? ????? ???? ?..
- hello my baby hello my sweet..
- truffles.bg zamrazeni trufel..
- we’re not ones to go aroun..
- smokin on runts this that vl..
- what can you do what ya gonn..
- when you go, tell me will yo..
- isitha the enemy soundtrack ..
- let’s us pray by train wre..
- that miracles do happen beli..
- king96e.xyz giay nu nam cong..
- your the reason headie one x..
- tubidy mp3 afaan oromo musi..
- party till the money runs ou..
- travis scott ft. juice wrld ..
- melissa yasané pona nini ly..
Terms of User Agreement