I Keep Painting

Intro

(Sixteen hundred)

(Forty-two)

Verse

I was born in sixteen hundred

In a town without a name

Where the only light was candle

And the only map was flame

I mixed my paints from berries

From the ash and from the clay

And I painted saints and sinners

Till they carried me away

Verse 2

The town is all glass towers

The streets are full of wire

I wear my apron through the market

And nobody asks about the fire

I sold a drawing to a stranger

For a coin I couldn't read

He said the world had gotten faster

I said that's fine, I know how to be

Pre-Chorus

A crack, a hum, a hollow sound

The ground beneath me spun around

Three hundred years went rushing past

I landed on a darker glass

Chorus

I keep landing, keep landing

In the middle of somebody's year

Every face is a doorway

Every doorway disappears

I keep painting, keep painting

On whatever wall I find

Sixteen hundred forty-two

Is a country in my mind

Post-Chorus

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

A country in my mind

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

A country in my mind

Verse 3

I learned to draw the streetlamps

I learned to draw the rain

I drew a woman sleeping

Who woke up and knew my name

She asked me where I came from

I pointed at the ground

She said nobody comes from nowhere

So I drew a little town

Bridge

Maybe time is just a corridor

And I'm a draft beneath the door

Maybe every age is one long room

And I'm the dust inside the broom

(Maybe every age is one long room)

I sweep, I sweep, I sweep

Chorus

I keep landing, keep landing

In the middle of somebody's year

Every face is a doorway

Every doorway disappears

I keep painting, keep painting

On whatever wall I find

Sixteen hundred forty-two

Is a country in my mind

Post-Chorus

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

A country in my mind

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

A country in my mind

Outro

I was born in sixteen hundred

In a town without a name

And I'll be born again tomorrow

In a town without a name

(Sixteen hundred)

(Forty-two)

(A country in my mind)