Broad Strokes Lyrics

Paint it with broad strokes

You're smoking on Somerset

Rose colored shadows

Adorning your silhouette

I have waited

My words still bated

Just to see you spin

Mistake this for anything

How do you need to feel

Push it and pull it

Until it is something real

Keep your eyes low

Keep your heart slow

Hold it

Hold it in

To borrow a line

Don't remind me of anything

Your bright ideas hurt my eyes

You think I'm a marigold

Simple to pick and hold

What happens when your flower

Dies

Burn me in effigy

Slow like your cigarette

Ash into ember

Ember into regret

Start the ending

Oh stop pretending

I'm underneath your skin

Hold me accountable

Tell me I fucked it up

Rose colored glasses

Your wine in a coffee cup

Thank you kindly

I'm running blindly

Again, again, again

To borrow a line

Don't remind me of anything

Your bright ideas hurt my eyes

You think I'm a marigold

Simple to pick and hold

What happens when your flower

Dies

You can't keep this close

If it never comes near enough

I made you a masterpiece

Something they can't rebuff

I'm feeling so jaded

So feckless and faded

Don't hold back now

Smile with your teeth

Or they'll think that you're lying

Smile with your eyes

Or they'll know that you're dying

I'm feeling so jaded

So uncomplicated

Don't hold back now

Don't hold back now

Don't hold back

To borrow a line

Don't remind of anything

Your bright ideas hurt my eyes

You think I'm a marigold

Simple to pick and hold

What happens when your flower

Have I made this clear

Don't remind me of anything

Your bright ideas hurt my eyes

You think I'm a marigold

Simple to pick and hold

What happens when your flower

Dies