Masterpiece Lyrics

Where will you be when I paint my masterpiece?

Hanging there over my shoulder?

Negotiating a brand new lease?

Or taking the world by the back of the neck

And shaking it until it screams

For a droplet of passionate mercy

Or a bucket of freshly drawn dreams

Out on the road down on the farm

Wondering why I can't move my arm

Burying thoughts digging up poems

Looking for reasons that have no homes

Scratching your head and wondering

Where the pain and the sorrow release

To flow through this desert of dried up emotion

Enticing the thirsting to cease

Where will you be when these things are in motion

And I'm painting my masterpiece

Where will you be when I've conquered the frost and the ice

Hanging there over my shoulder

Asking me to do it twice

Or taking the stage in a Broadway play

And bringing the crowd to it's feet

For a moment of brief inhibition

And a chance to get out of their seats

Flying around crawling through dust

Looking for someone to love and to trust

Blazing a trail consulting a map,

Trying to find the time for a nap

Afraid of your dreams

Afraid to wake up

It seems that you're never at peace

With your vault full of stranded emotional ties

That slipped from your heard laced with grease

Where will you be when these feelings arise

And I'm painting my masterpiece.

Where will you be when my masterpiece finally sells

Alone in your favorite churchyard

Or ringing the steeple bells

Or drifting around in cyberspace

With a gallon of freshly cut tears

That wash away lines on your tired cheeks

Preserving your beauty for years

Uploading downloading feelings around you

Constantly imploding

Honing your craft lighting your lamp

With moistened refrains both silent and damp

Emailing Jason and all of his sailors

A king's ransom for the golden fleece

The emperor's naked chastising his tailors

He's not sure he's fond of each crease

Where will you be when they're counting my failures

And selling my masterpiece

Will you be there beside me warming our toasty bed

Will you be there to guide me and sterilize parts of my head

Infections grow wild on a lazy man's brain

I need you to keep me alive

Whenever I feel like I'm going insane

You bring me the will to survive

I've a tell-tale heart and a raven whose perched

Near my ceiling awaiting a feast

Will you be counting the cards that he's dealing

When I'm painting my masterpiece