Colors diluted by the lies   And painted thick across the sky   Have seen all life whither and die   I gaze up at this forgery   Up at this dark grim tapestry   And mourn the world once promised me      Beneath this canvas monochrome   Wrapped in the shroud of this gray home   I'll paint a picture      Nothingness surrounding me   As far as any eye can see   This doesn't really have to be   I, deeply from the colors, drink   Feel them warming, filling me   The comfort that I need so desperately      Beneath this canvas monochrome   Wrapped in the shroud of this gray home   I'll paint a picture all my own      So blind beneath this canopy   So still in lifeless scenery   So pale within this shadow over me   The gray no longer satisfies   The colors neutral to these eyes   I long again to see the sky      I search to find a brighter side   With eyes so frail against the light   Which seems at times to burn me from inside   The gray no longer satisfies   The colors neutral to these eyes   I long again to see the sky      Colors diluted by the lies   And painted thick across the sky   Have seen all life whither and die   I gaze upon this forgery   Up at this dark grim tapestry   And mourn the world once promised me      Beneath this canvas monochrome   Wrapped in the shroud of this gray home   I'll paint a picture all my own