Paint a Picture

I'll paint a picture of me
You'll paint a picture of you
I'll like what I'll see
We'll see if it's true
Can this really be?

I'll paint a picture of you
you'll paint a picture of me
One of us will say, "I love you"
The other will hesitate and say,
"I love you too"
We'll smile and kiss
until one day I'll miss

I miss you
I miss you too
No, you hang up
What's the hold up?
I'll paint a picture of you

You'll paint a picture of me
It'll be a picture of two

They'll be jealous of us

We'll make promises we hope to keep
some we will
some we won't
but I promise you I never meant to hurt you

I'll paint a picture of us
You'll paint a picture of us
but one day
I love you won't be enough
It'll be the way you said it
And I won't believe you anymore
I won't think you meant it

Painting makes you believe in make believe.

Then I'll be busy
Painting a picture of you
while you’re painting a picture of me
But it's no longer us
Because there's no longer trust
And you'll be busy
painting a picture of you
and I'll be busy
painting a picture of me
that I won't want anybody to see


it's not you, it's me
it's not me, it's you

until I find someone
that can understand
I don't want to paint a picture of you
I don't want to paint a picture of me

I just want to be
but I'm busy
Painting a picture of you
You're painting a picture of me
some made up fantasy
for the world to see.

A letter that is written but never sends

Sometimes
The people that are closest
don't seem close at all

feel like they're watching
waiting for me to fall
they don't understand
that sometimes I don't make the call

25 years
but it seems like a century
a story that never ends
a path that never bends
a fence that never mends

a letter that is written but never sends
is like a life that never begins and never ends

but all men must die
we'll pretend we're not scared

we quickly find our pair
while I'm listening to the snare

off the beat
while I off the beat
stomp my feet

you think I'm messing up
but I swear that is how it is
supposed to go

listening to the sound
listening to the flow

I play until I get lost
I play until I get lost in the music
I play until I get lost in the flow
I play until I get lost in the moment

until the guitar riff would make a sane man sick

I can't stop listening
I can't stop playing

it's late
in the song now

I doubt anybody made it up to here
Nobody is really listening to what I'm saying

What I'm spraying
as notes, and chords
dischords
chirping out of me

It's an enigma my enemy

you're mystery is a friend of me

you're barely somebody that I used to know

and I know love hurts

cliche after cliche
clash after clash
dash after dash
pass after a pass

it's a mess I must confess
but I digress
it's all just a test to figure out the best
separate from the rest

sometimes
the people that are closest
know you better than you
sometimes
the people you never meet
know you best

Run Until It Rains

I'm going to run until it rains
You can dance until it gets dark

I'll be here for you now
One day you'll grow old
One day you can grow old with me

We used to play hide and seek in the dark
but now we swim until there's lightning

I'm going to run until it rains
You can dance until it gets dark

As we grow old I want to get younger everyday
I'm here for now
You can grow old with me

Growing taller everyday
Sometimes I like it
Sometimes I don't

Be careful of the trees
It is about to rain

I'm going to run until it rains out
You can dance until it gets dark

I'll be at the park
But I'm going to be honest
it's getting dark
winter is far away
but the darkness controls the mind

I watch people racing to red lights
just to get ahead

Sometimes I feel like there's a stranger in my head
Sometimes I feel like I'm stranger than all my friends

One day I'm gonna wake up

I'm not going to be able to run until it rains
so I race to red lights
chasing around these red and blue balloons

This rift
between my expectations and my reality
the long division leads me to believe
that leaks and losses and too much lobbying

confusion
osmosis diffusion

I just want to run until rains
Watch the water go down the drains
keep running through the aches and pains

Dance until it get dark out

watch the sun rise
and the stars collide
but still get a full night sleep
insomnia's dilemma

watch the water and the moon
live life on life's terms
life's dilemmas
life's grooves,
life's nooks,
life's crannies

Sometimes I like it
Sometimes I don't

But somedays I like to run until it's rained out
Dance until the sun comes up
Gaze beyond the first three stars

Grow old but get younger everyday

Face my fears
My fears I face

Close my eyes so I can walk in the dark
Obliviously living Oblivious in an Oblivion

Blur of life
Bluff of the past
Fluff of the Future
How quick
How fast did the day go
Where did the meter go

Playing outside
Playing in a play that I was never after
All I wanted was the love, family, friends and laughter

One day I thought I could never amount to anything
I was stuck inside the past
a past me
a past her
an idea

The idea of you is clearly fading away in figments
Leaks, Unasked questions

Confusion, Contusion, Twisting and Contorting my thoughts
Isolines in the sand, isolines in my mind
isolating all these isolating incidents that happen in a spectrum
and specieating species of new ideas and concepts
specializing in speculating on speculative and sporadically changing suspicions of superiority
but inferiority drives us

we want to be rebels
so we race until it rains
dance until its dark
fight in the forest
figure shit out after its done
set it up
knock it down

cleaning up garbage
cause you don't want to leave a mess
When I start to stress, I digress
but never regress
Cause the grass is too green
and I can look up high in the sky

and see the red and blue balloons
Floating
I wonder if the lightning will strike
I see all these people running in the rain
Barefoot

Banging around in the thunder
I wonder

I wonder
I'm just gonna run until it rains
and go inside when it thunders
I just want to escape
I do not care about the blunders

These blinders are blocking me
from the red and blue balloons
splashing down as the rain hits my pillow

But I think of a weeping willow
and I wonder if we can withstand
years of yelling and blatant manipulation

can we withstand it all
can we turn a blind eye on a brother
on a friend, on a cousin, on a lover?
a blind eye to those that do us wrong

can we make ourselves believe that what they are doing is right
but I just want to go left

and two wrongs don't make a right
but three lefts do

Sometimes i wake up and I don't want to put on a shoe
I don't want to lift a finger
I feel like I'll just hinder
so I linger

bur I just go left foot, right foot
set my feet, get up
and go

I'm living in Heaven
but so many people think this is hell
and I think you're an angel
leading me

through hell

It's the dark side that we all can abide by
It's the light that scares us the most
our eyes can't adjust
so we we wear sunglasses to protect us from the waves
we were sun tan lotion to protect us from the waves
we stand still
we stand strong
to protect us from the waves

But look at me I'm just following these red and blue balloons in the sky
I'm gonna go to the beach, I'm gonna go to the park
and I'm going to run until it rains.
So I can dance until it gets dark out
Keep on running until the sun comes up