Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song They Provide the Paint for the Picture-Perfect Masterpiece That You Will Paint on the Insides of Your Eyelids, artist - Streetlight Manifesto. Album song 99 Songs of Revolution Vol. 1, in the genre Ска
Date of issue: 15.03.2010
Record label: Pentimento
Song language: English
They Provide the Paint for the Picture-Perfect Masterpiece That You Will Paint on the Insides of Your Eyelids |
There is a man with no face and a name I don’t remember |
Lives in a house in the middle of the woods |
And he said once 'son, don’t you laugh out loud |
For they are listening, oh they are listening |
Oh, you’ve got to be strong |
Oh, you’ve got to keep holding on Now it’s just a matter of time' |
They provide the paint for the picture perfect masterpiece that you will |
Paint on the insides of your eyelids |
Can you possibly see anything you want to see? |
No, hell no, there’s nothing wrong with the way I see |
And he wanted to be a soldier in the next great war |
He wanted to kill and fight and maim but not be told what he was fighting for |
And that’s the way it’s going to have to be, my friend |
And that’s the way it’s going to have to be, my friend |
I passed a man on the corner in the city yesterday |
Singing 'Yada yada yada and tomorrow it’ll end' |
And I never thought I’d live to see another sunny day |
But I’m here and I fear I’ll be here until the end |
So watch your mouth or you’re going to make a grave mistake |
Hold your tongue or you’re going to catch a bullet in the head |
Watch your mouth or you’re going to make a grave mistake |
Don’t die for anything less than the best of life |
The things they said went to your head |
But you never tried to understand |
What they take, you will never take back |
Cuz they take what they take what they can because they can from you |
You follow me and you follow me but you never ask why |
And I wonder what you’re under could this be another piece of the |
I don’t know, I just do what they say |
Because they say what to do in a matter of fact way |
But don’t stop because you might get burned |
And you might just learn to stand on your own two feet |
And I think that it’s neat how you learn to repeat |
Everything that you hear in the street so well |
Learn to repeat everything that you hear so well |
You learn to repeat everything that you hear so well |
And everyone was resting because they thought it was the end |
And even if it wasn’t, they decided to pretend |
And somewhere in the distance I could hear him whispering |
'You can fight all you want, they will win in the end, so' |
Sometimes in the evening when I’m lying in my bed |
I am taken to the forest to that isolated shed |
And I wake with is words resonating in my head |
And I can’t stop thinking about the gist of what he said |
So watch your mouth or you’re going to make a grave mistake |
Hold your tongue or you’re going to catch a bullet in the head |
Watch your mouth or you’re going to make a grave mistake |
Don’t die for anything less than the best of, |
everyone settles for the rest, not the best of I will die for no less than the best of life |