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| album: |
Nonsuch |
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| year: |
1992 |
| written
by: |
Andy Partridge |
| length: |
3 minutes 46 seconds |
Wrapped in Grey
from Nonsuch
Some folks see the world as a stone -
Concrete daubed in dull monotone.
Your heart is the big box of paints
And others, the canvas we're dealt.
 Your
heart is the big box of paints.
How coloured the flowers all smelled
As they huddled there, in petalled prayer.
They told me this, as I knelt there:
Awaken you dreamers
Adrift in your beds.
Balloons and streamers
Decorate the inside of your heads.
Please let some out -
Do it today -
But don't let the loveless ones sell you
A world wrapped in grey.
Some folks pull this life like a weight -
Drab and dragging dreams made of slate.
Your heart is the big box of paints
And others, the canvas we're dealt.
Your heart is the big box of paints.
Just think how the old masters felt, they call...
Awaken you dreamers
Asleep at your desks.
Parrots and lemurs
Populate your unconscious grotesques.
Please let some out -
Do it today -
Don't let the loveless ones sell you
A world wrapped in grey.
And in the very least you can
Stand up naked and
Grin.
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