WITNESS - Canvas Stays Blank lyrics

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It's just a snowstorm, right?<br />

Just another night.<br />

Just another life.<br />

Just another friend.<br />

That went to walk on thin ice.<br />

I know it ain't my place<br />

To make these kind of statements<br />

But lately you've been distant<br />

And isn't transportation<br />

That's been making it a problem<br />

I find it odd when you don't return my calls<br />

But, maybe you've forgot them<br />

I'll give you that<br />

But try to give me this<br />

I bet your fingertips are numb<br />

And it isn't even winter, kid<br />

It might be insignificant<br />

And maybe I'm just worried<br />

But you're getting close to thirty<br />

And you haven't left Jersey once<br />

Tried to chalk on the board as just a phase<br />

But the dust is getting thicker<br />

And the pictures getting vague with age<br />

Like, "where you living?"<br />

"How are you affording this?"<br />

You used to be an artist<br />

Show me what your self portrait is<br />

Ex-friends<br />

Got a lot in the bank<br />

But, I want to know the reason<br />

That your canvas stays blank<br />

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Take another razor<br />

Take another mirror<br />

Take another year<br />

And I'll probably stop counting<br />

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Don't get it twisted<br />

This ain't no intervention<br />

The world is just a stage<br />

And maybe yours is Trenton<br />

It's just a shame<br />

That the actors are anonymous<br />

And only those you broke a promise with<br />

Are in the audience<br />

It's probably obvious<br />

That I'm feeling kind of guilty<br />

It kills me that I neglected this<br />

To get my kicks in Philly<br />

Still we gotta talk<br />

We should grab some coffee<br />

And catch up on the last four years<br />

That you lost me to<br />

Cylindrical dollar bills that never make change<br />

And just the other day I heard you're taking it in vein?<br />

I complain because you used to paint the world a little brighter<br />

You used to be inspired<br />

You used to be a writer<br />

And I knew about the fire<br />

Way before it burned the bridges<br />

But I guess that it was something<br />

That I thought that you'd extinguish<br />

I've got a picture of a face I used to know<br />

But who's the person in the mirror<br />

When you scrape away the snow?<br />

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Hold up<br />

Kill the conjecture<br />

I didn't come to lecture you<br />

I came to get the truth<br />

And understand you better<br />

Through the pleasures you indulge in<br />

The world that you've frozen<br />

The doors that you closed<br />

Since your souls been snowed in<br />

This skins grown thin<br />

From over exposure<br />

To elements like yours<br />

And keeping my composure when<br />

I need closure<br />

You never sober enough<br />

To even keep this boat<br />

Afloat in the flood<br />

But the water is tepid, test it, settle and wet your feet, <br />

I bet if you kept that head beneath another second you would sink<br />

Or maybe you have, maybe you're rock bottom<br />

And you only got a problem when you got the time to think<br />

So, I'll be the kite without a string in your tempest<br />

And you'll be the crack in this terra cotta friendship<br />

And, that's how we'll end it.<br />

Confusion and angst<br />

While you're wandering a city<br />

Where your canvas stays blank