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Let Me Paint A Picture For You

from Relaxing At Gunpoint by Jazz Cattle

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lyrics

LET ME PAINT A PICTURE FOR YOU

As I tend each paintbrush bristle
I give a little whistle
With lips that long to kiss all
My memories hello.
Not even if you pay or dare me
Would I climb Blood Hill - scary
But here I am and solitary
Watch out down below!

Let me paint a picture for you
See the world from my point of view
Not an abstract or a caricature
An untainted vision, clear and pure
Care to inspect the sketches in my bureau?
Figures caught in chiaroscuro
Let me paint a picture for you

Stay here, a warm gentle breeze all
Day, no need for an easel
Lay my pad on my knees'll
Do comfortably for me.
Surrounded by my paintbox clutter
A round of tea and bread and butter
The sound of crow wings flutter
Above but he won't claw me.

Let me paint a picture of you
Every line a road or a clue
It's my personal perspective
(if you don't like it I'll correct it)
It's probably better up the other way
What are you prepared to pay
For me to paint a picture of you?

Climbing up up up
Never stop stop stop
To the top top top
Of Blood Hill
What a scene scene scene
The rolling green green green
Strong as poteen 'teen 'teen
Drawn from a still

Let me paint a picture for you
Foxy brushwork, varied in hue
I’m not immune to critics’ derision
They can get lost in my composition
Dry theorists fly when I splash wet-in-wet
Can you see what it is yet?
Let me paint a picture -
- pour a tincture -
After I paint a picture for you

credits

from Relaxing At Gunpoint, released September 10, 2012
Lyrics: Paul Hamilton. ('Foxy' in last verse, courtesy of Andrew Petrie.)
Music: Andrew Petrie & Paul Hamilton.
Orchestrated, arranged and performed by Petrie.
Vocal: Hamilton.
Whistling: Petrie.

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