Paint Your Picture Lyrics - Josh Ritter

Pictures on my wall, 

Fifteen different colours, 

Starting with vermillion- 

The first flower of the summer, 

And don't think I'll be finished 

Till I've begun to understand this, 

With you stretched out in the sunlight, 

As your laughter fills my canvas 

The sun falls in my fingers, 

On your back against the blinds, 

It's tracing out your hollows 

It is filling in your lines, 

There your curl finds your spiral 

As you silhouette the window, 

When my brush forgives itself 

Spills lines upon your pillow, 

Finds you standing in the middle 

Of the lines you've laid down before 

Try to trace my picture into yours 

Let me paint you in the corner, 

As your shoulders trap the light 

See the sunset feeling golden 

On the wineskins of the night 

I have seen your eyes in paintings 

As Cathedrals cried Hosanna 

Let me paint your face in frescos 

Hang your hair like Angelabra 

See you standing in the middle 

Of lines you laid down before, 

Try to paint my picture into yours 

In the morning let me find you 

As I call to you by name, 

Your body warm beside me 

Not imprisoned in a frame 

I could never find the colours 

Or the light that finely paints you 

With those roses in your hair 

Smell of wine, immortal perfume 

As you're standing in the middle 

Of lines you laid down before 

Tryin' to paint my picture into yours 

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