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from Subtractive by Bluelily
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lyrics
out of touch with everyone you knew
honestly, it's funny what eight months will do
guess I'm just out of it
now finally down to the last of your palettes
yet you refuse to accept there's something wrong about it
maybe I'm full of shit
only trying to not try at all
you lined your lies up in rows, you locked the truths in the walls
you're the captain of a sinking ship
a sky full of yellow stars will still come crashing down
even if you beg the setting sun to keep magenta clouds around
and come the cyan glow of midnight light, it couldn't be any clearer
all you are anymore is a man at war with the face in the mirror
and if art's not art and God is dead or whatever
my friends say these days
not that I understand now, anyway
I'll keep spitting out my sophomoric prose
in some last-ditch effort where anything goes
it's subtractive, and that's all I know
so dye everything a stygian black
or anything but that
you tried to make a mark, but the colors bled together
now you're left grasping for anything at all
the world's an empty canvas, but the paint won't last forever
now you're standing there and just about to fall
had the chance to start your portrait, but you were staring through a filter
now the opportunity is slipping away
yeah, I guess I've just been out of it
honestly, it's funny what eight months will do
guess I'm just out of it
now finally down to the last of your palettes
yet you refuse to accept there's something wrong about it
maybe I'm full of shit
only trying to not try at all
you lined your lies up in rows, you locked the truths in the walls
you're the captain of a sinking ship
a sky full of yellow stars will still come crashing down
even if you beg the setting sun to keep magenta clouds around
and come the cyan glow of midnight light, it couldn't be any clearer
all you are anymore is a man at war with the face in the mirror
and if art's not art and God is dead or whatever
my friends say these days
not that I understand now, anyway
I'll keep spitting out my sophomoric prose
in some last-ditch effort where anything goes
it's subtractive, and that's all I know
so dye everything a stygian black
or anything but that
you tried to make a mark, but the colors bled together
now you're left grasping for anything at all
the world's an empty canvas, but the paint won't last forever
now you're standing there and just about to fall
had the chance to start your portrait, but you were staring through a filter
now the opportunity is slipping away
yeah, I guess I've just been out of it
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from Subtractive,
released September 25, 2015
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