WITNESS - Watercolors lyrics

rate me

I found a picture perfect pigment on the palette for once

And if I spilled it on the sky, it could challenge the challenge the sun

I'm gathering umbrellas just to salvage it from

The doubt on your tongue and any rain clouds if they come

Because you got watercolors underneath your eyelids

Painted on the oleander canvas of your iris

And it's a shame they get diluted and dim

Every time a little rain comes through with the wind

We've been separated by the longitude

And we'll be woven back together when the needle in the compass moves

I can't promise you the moon

But I could guarantee a garden if you'd let the sunshine soon

So sugar show me the symmetry hidden beneath your breastbone

Break a piece that I can carry with me when you've left home

And if the weather ever finger paints your day black

I'll light another match so you can navigate your way back

Because I've met a lot of those that put the "lie" in "I believe in you"

But I believe you do, I believe you do

Misunderstood

Lost the footing and I fell hard

That's when the fireflies died in the bell jar

I used to pray that they would be awake in June

When that origami sunset folds to a paper moon

The skyline blushes when it breaks dawn

The highway stretches and the interstate yawns but

I never sleep when the give and take's gone

When it's freezing in the place that we used to wake on

I was too ambitious and too damn timid

And too thrilled when the glass was half filled to wonder what was in it

But you're a cynic when the magic still exists

Till you stifle all the winds that send the daffodils adrift

And that's the reason that the kite fell flat, love

And if you wanted it might sail right back up

Just hold the tether tight when the black wind blows

And promise me that you'll chase it if you let the string go