A Makeover-Shearwater

[ti:A Makeover] [ar:Shearwater] [al:Shearwater Live At Maxwell's 05/20/2004] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Makeover - Shearwater [00:32.40]It's like a makeover [00:41.90]It's like a makeover when the filming's over [00:45.95]And she doesn't know [00:47.88]How to fix it so that it'll stay [00:50.63]And she can't figure out [00:52.01]How to tease out her hair that way herself [00:56.93]And when she wakes up all the make-up [01:00.80]Has rubbed away [01:02.80]And she doesn't know how to find her face [01:05.48]It was only for one single day [01:09.66]That you looked so beautiful baby [01:13.16]Now your cheeks have gone pale [01:15.65]And your roots dark gray [01:20.02]And though they nod as they notice you're nice [01:24.51]Baby nobody's noticing twice [01:28.19]Dim the lights as your memory of paradise fades [01:35.06]I'm like an architect who cashed his check [01:43.39]But he doesn't let on [01:47.01]That it's the last one he'll get [01:50.69]Though he knows the funds have run dry [01:57.74]He wants to have fun for one final night [02:02.36]Staring out at a skyline that he'll never change [02:09.85]They're saying "Though we like all things [02:12.28]That you've made [02:35.99]Notice no one remembers your name [02:51.09]As you float through time [02:53.04]Feel your powers decline day by day [02:55.29]You're like a convert who goes back to work [02:59.60]When he can't retrieve how the clarity actually felt [03:03.79]When his co-workers ask him the words won't come out [03:13.72]And in three weeks his new leaf has blown away [03:19.39]And it feels just like an average day [03:22.70]Facing walls talking into the phone [03:29.63]Sitting dumbly in church all alone Picking back up the magazines