Painters-Jewel

[ti:Painters (LP Version)] [ar:Jewel] [al:Pieces Of You] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Painters - Jewel (珠儿) [00:10.91]Eighty years an old lady now sitting on the front porch [00:17.52]Watching the clouds roll by [00:19.09]They remind her of her lover how he left her and of times long ago [00:27.40]When she used to color carelessly painted his portrait [00:32.34]A thousand times-or maybe just his smile- [00:38.22]And she and her canvas would follow him wherever he would go [00:45.04]'Cause I'm a painter and i want to paint you a lovely world [00:51.73]A lovely world [01:03.13]Oil streaked daisies covered the living room wall [01:10.64]He put water-colored roses in her hair [01:14.57]He said "Love I love you I want to give you mountains the sunshine the sunset too [01:26.29]I just want to give you a world as beautiful as you are to me [01:35.37]'Cause they were painters and they were painting themselves [01:41.17]A lovely world [01:50.76]So they sat down and made a drawing of their love they made it an art to live by [01:58.91]They painted every passion every home created every beautiful child [02:07.20]In the winter they were weavers of warmth in summer they were carpenters of love [02:14.18]They thought blue prints were too sad so they made them yellow [02:21.32]'Cause they were painters and they were painting themselves [02:24.89]A lovely world [02:38.15]Until one day the rain fell as thick as black oil [02:44.00]And in her heart she knew something was wrong [02:49.84]She went running through the orchard screaming [02:53.61]'No God don't take him from me ' [02:57.95]But buy the time she got there she feared he already had gone [03:09.76]She got to where he lay water-colored roses in his hands for her [03:21.14]She threw them down screaming 'Damn you man don't leave me [03:25.58]With nothing left behind but these cold paintings these cold portraits to remind me [03:41.89]He said 'Love I leave but only a little try to understand [03:54.07]I put my soul in this life we created with these four hands [04:04.35]Love I leave but only a little this world holds me still [04:13.07]My body may die now but these paintings are real ' [04:40.41]So many seasons came and many seasons went [04:44.64]And many times she saw her loves face watering the flowers [04:50.43]Talking to the trees and singing to his children [04:56.57]And when the wind blew she knew he was listening [05:00.76]And how he seamed to laugh along and how he seemed to hold her [05:06.40]When she was crying [05:10.29]'Cause they were painters and they were painting themselves [05:13.92]A lovely world [05:28.12]Eighty years an old lady now sitting on the front porch [05:34.14]Watching the clouds roll by they remind her of her lover [05:38.31]How he left her and of times long ago when she used to color carelessly [05:46.20]Painted his portrait a thousand times or maybe just his smile [05:54.83]And she and her canvas would follow him wherever he would go [05:59.95]Yes she and her canvas still follow [06:06.89]Because they are painters and they are painting themselves [06:10.54]A lovely world