Karine Polwart - Painted It White lyrics

rate me

A broken spell

A wishing well whose waters are dry

A warning bell

A yellow ribbon too torn to fly

Stone turns to dust

Rusting metal, muscle to bone

We're looking for a locust wind

To carry us home

Chorus:

We believed in those words that you said

You took a black heart and you painted it red

We deceived ourselves every night

As you took a black heart and you painted it white

You painted it white

A blazing sky

A brazen lie you barely concealed

A promise made

Betrayed upon a sorrowful field

Nobody learns

Seems like everybody turns to the screen

To watch it pass

But not to ask, "What does it mean?"

(Chorus)

Now you're falling

You're falling

And you're falling

And you're falling

So here we are

We're not so far from where we could be

You've got a gun

The one you say will keep us all free

So free that you

Can bomb a blue horizon to black

Then steal away the day

And never, never give it back

(Chorus)

Now you're falling

You're falling

And you're falling...