Painting Box - The Incredible String Band

作词：Mike Heron

作曲：Mike Heron

When the morning of your eyes comes waking through my shadows

Leaving just a trace of twilight sleep

I whisper to the baby raindrops playing on my window

And tell them gently this is not the time that they should weep

For somewhere in my mind there is a painting box

I have every color there it's true

Just lately when I look inside my painting box

I seem to pick the colors of you

My Friday evening's footsteps plodding dully through this black town

Are far away now from the world that I'm in

My eyes are listening to some sounds that I think just might be springtime

With daffodils between my toes I'm laughing at their whim

And somewhere in my mind there is a painting box

I have every color there it's true

Just lately when I look inside my painting box

I seem to pick the colors of you

Oh somewhere in my mind there is a painting box

I have every color there it's true

Just lately when I look inside my painting box

I seem to pick the colors of you

The purple sail above me catches all the strength of summer

Fishes stop and ask me where I am bound

I smile and shake my head and say my little ship is sinking

But I kind of like the sea that I'm on and

I don't mind if I do drown

And somewhere in my mind there is a painting box

I have every color there it's true

Just lately when I look inside my painting box

I seem to pick the colors of you