Painting Box Lyrics - Incredible String Band/5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion - Incredible String Band

When the morning of your eyes comes waking through my shadows 

Leaving just a trace of twilight sleep 

I whisper to the baby raindrops playing on my window 

And tell them gently this is not the time that they should weep 

For somewhere in my mind there is a painting box 

I have every color there, it's true 

Just lately when I look inside my painting box 

I seem to pick the colors of you 

My Friday evening's footsteps plodding dully through this black town 

Are far away now from the world that I'm in 

My eyes are listening to some sounds that I think just might be springtime 

With daffodils between my toes I'm laughing at their whim 

And somewhere in my mind there is a painting box 

I have every color there, it's true 

Just lately when I look inside my painting box 

I seem to pick the colors of you 

Oh, somewhere in my mind there is a painting box 

I have every color there, it's true 

Just lately when I look inside my painting box 

I seem to pick the colors of you 

The purple sail above me catches all the strength of summer 

Fishes stop and ask me where I am bound 

I smile and shake my head and say my little ship is sinking 

But I kind of like the sea that I'm on and I don't mind if I do drown 

And somewhere in my mind there is a painting box 

I have every color there, it's true 

Just lately when I look inside my painting box 

I seem to pick the colors of you