They Provide The Paint For The Picture-Perfect Masterpiece-Streetlight Manifesto

[ti:They Provide The Paint For The Picture-Perfect Masterpiece] [ar:Streetlight Manifesto] [al:99 Songs Of Revolution] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]They Provide The Paint For The Picture-Perfect Masterpiece - Streetlight Manifesto [00:16.26]There is a man with no face [00:18.57]And a name I don't remember [00:19.95]Who lives in a house in the middle of the woods [00:22.27]And he said once " [00:23.20]Son don't you ever laugh out loud for they are listening [00:25.08]Yes they are listening [00:26.21]Oh you've got to be strong [00:30.10]Oh you've got to keep holding on [00:32.97]It's now just a matter of time" [00:34.65] [00:39.21](Head for the hills go ) [00:41.20] [00:56.24]They provide the paint for the picture perfect masterpiece [00:58.10]That you will paint on the insides of your eyelids; [01:00.53]Can you possibly see anything you want to see [01:02.16]No (Hell No ) [01:03.28]"There's nothing wrong with the way I see" [01:04.84]And he wanted to be a soldier in the next great war [01:06.67]He wanted to kill and fight and maim but not be told what he was fighting for [01:09.78]And that's the way it's going to have to be my friend [01:12.09]And that's the way it's going to have to be my friend [01:17.68] [01:20.06]I passed a man on the corner in the city yesterday singing [01:22.11]"Yada yada yada and tomorrow it'll never end" [01:24.55]And I never thought I'd never live to see another sunny day [01:26.55]But I'm here and I fear I'll be here till the end [01:28.85]So watch your mouth [01:29.73]Or you're going to make a grave mistake [01:31.16]Hold your tongue [01:31.79]Or you're going to catch a bullet in the head [01:33.47]So watch your mouth [01:34.09]Or you're going to make a grave mistake [01:35.34]Don't die for anything less than the best of life [01:37.59] [02:04.25]The things you said went to your head [02:06.25]But you never tried to understand: [02:08.12]What they'll take you will never take back what they take when take what they can [02:10.47] [02:11.08]Because they can from you [02:11.90]You follow me and you follow me but you never ask why [02:13.90]And I wonder what you're under could this be another piece of the [02:15.91]"I don't know I just do what they say because they say what to do in a matter of fact way" [02:20.47]But don't stop because you might get burned [02:21.79]And you might just learn to stand on your own two feet [02:23.72]And I think that it's neat how you learn to repeat everything [02:25.91]That you hear in the street so well [02:27.69] [02:29.87]You learn to repeat everything that you hear so well [02:31.67] [02:33.73]You learn to repeat everything that you hear so well [02:35.70] [02:42.99]And everyone was resting because they thought it was the end [02:45.06]And even if it wasn't they decide they'd pretend [02:46.73] [02:47.54]And somewhere in the distance I could hear him whispering [02:49.10]"You can fight all you want you'll never win in the end" [02:51.73] [03:07.02]Sometimes in the evening when I'm lying in my bed [03:09.14]I am taken to the forest to the isolated shed [03:11.09]And I wake with his words resonating in my head [03:13.64]And I can't stop thinking about the gist of what he said [03:15.86]He said: [03:16.18]So watch your mouth [03:16.93]Or you're going to make a grave mistake [03:18.24]Hold your tongue [03:18.74]Or you're going to catch a bullet in the head [03:20.43]So watch your mouth [03:21.05]Or you're going to make a grave mistake [03:22.37]Don't die for anything less than the best of [03:24.06]Everyone settles for the rest not the best of [03:25.50]I will die for no less than the best of life