The Painted Man

Intro

Mm

Mm-hmm

Oh-oh

Verse 1

Somebody built a little town

Set it down and pressed play

Little people walking round

Doing what the maker say

I got a house I got a wife

I got a job I never chose

Every morning of my life

Was written down before it rose

Pre-Chorus

So who am I to want

Who am I to try

If the ending's already drawn

Before I even cry

Chorus

This whole world is a parlor game

And I am just a painted man

Every road already has a name

Every choice was in the plan

I never picked a single thing

I only thought I did

The player up above the screen

Already knows the kid

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh

Already knows the kid

Oh-oh-oh

Verse 2

They tell me evil is my fault

That I wandered from the light

But the lock was on the vault

And the key was out of sight

Every wrong I ever made

Was scripted in the book

Every hand that I have played

Was dealt before I looked

Pre-Chorus

So don't you blame the pawn

Don't you blame the piece

The hand that moves at dawn

Is the one that holds the lease

Chorus

This whole world is a parlor game

And I am just a painted man

Every road already has a name

Every choice was in the plan

I never picked a single thing

I only thought I did

The player up above the screen

Already knows the kid

Bridge

Judged before the cradle

Sentenced before the breath

Born into a fable

That somebody wrote for death

If the maker wrote the crime

Then the maker holds the blame

I am only keeping time

In a script without my name

Chorus

This whole world is a parlor game

And I am just a painted man

Every road already has a name

Every choice was in the plan

I never picked a single thing

I only thought I did

The player up above the screen

Already knows the kid

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh

Already knows the kid

Oh-oh-oh

Already knows

Chorus

This whole world is a parlor game

And I am just a painted man

Every road already has a name

Every choice was in the plan

I never picked a single thing

I only thought I did

The player up above the screen

Already knows the kid