Paint me lifeless grey   For I have lost a friend today   To desprate selfishness   And so I will regress   To something more disturbing   Than all my words can say   Black and white can not explain   So paint me lifeless grey      Paint me darkest black   Tightend rope will never slack   To free the chosen few   Or change my charcoal hue   I may be color-coated   But that won't hide the fact   That under shades of lifeless grey   I'm painted darkest black      Bridge   It's just about that time of year   When we will lose somebody dear   Is that a funeral march I hear?    It's just about that time of year      Paint me burning red   All the things he did and said   And now I feel ashamed   I thought it was a game   I will not rationalize   Or justify the dead   I only want to free myself   From all this burning red      Bridge      Paint me (repeat)