Still Painting Alone

Intro

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Verse 0

I was born in a village of stone

Where the church bell told the hours

I learned to mix my colors alone

From the dirt and the rain and the flowers

Pre-Chorus

Then the sky grew wide and the years rolled past

And I woke in a place that was built to last

But it never asked me if I wanted to go

It just swallowed me whole and I woke up below

Verse 1

I carry a brush made of horsehair and bone

And a palette of pigment I ground on my own

From lapis and ochre and rust from the ground

Now the aisles are glass and the color is sound

Pre-Chorus

There are no saints on these walls, only screens

Only figures who flicker like things in my dreams

And the light does not come from a window or sun

It just hums from the ceiling and never is done

Chorus

So I paint what I know in the corner of night

A madonna of shadows in halogen light

Let the plaster stay wet, let the fresco not dry

I'm a hand from the past with a modern-day eye

(Modern-day eye)

(Modern-day eye)

Post-Chorus

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Verse 2

I once gilded a halo with leaf from the king

Now I gild all my silence with nothing, with nothing

And the people walk past me like I am a ghost

Just a girl with a brush on a screen-lit coast

Bridge

Tell me, does a cathedral still hold up the sky

If the sky is a signal that never asks why

I will chalk the whole city in red and in blue

Till somebody turns and remembers the view

Chorus

So I paint what I know in the corner of night

A madonna of shadows in halogen light

Let the plaster stay wet, let the fresco not dry

I'm a hand from the past with a modern-day eye

(Modern-day eye)

(Modern-day eye)

Outro

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I was born in a village of stone

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And I am still painting alone

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Still painting alone

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