Tableau Lyrics

Oh how a 9 to 5 can cause so much turmoil

How simple ink on paper can be so disheartening

What panacea could cure all this tumult

I know of two remedies and the peace they'd bring

On a trip down to cape

The guide set my way

Down a path of orange trees and fields

In my current state

Of cruel life's decay

I need what a drive there could yield

I'll pick you up in a gimcrack Toyota

We'll track yellow stripes till the rolling greens flow

Find a dirt backroad to a pedestal hilltop

So the sunset can paint us, a new-age tableau

Oh

Your hand in my own, I see it now in fully closed eyes

A blanket and pillows laid out across my Tundra bed

The painter named sky's erased all the ashen cumuli

He now dots the stars and planets on the canvas in their stead

Your head next mine

Ataraxia entwined

No force could breach this peace

Our laughs join the trees

With their light-rustling leaves

Known epiphany re-hits me, it's where we're meant to be

I'll pick you up in a gimcrack Toyota

We'll track yellow stripes till the rolling greens flow

Find a dirt backroad to a pedestal hilltop

So the sunset can paint us, a new-age tableau

Oh

I can't thank you well enough for how my life was changed

The moment I saw your face