Paint Me Jade

Looks like tonight I'm on my own

I've got no right to piss and moan

Got no right to piss and moan

There is a light that's in your eyes

Reminiscent of my own

Reminiscent of my own

Oh, my god

My face has aged to fit my father's disappointed gaze

So paint me gray like he is today

I'm running outta shit to tell Kayleen

I can never lay down, gotta be held down

Counting flaws, I count the sheep I herd around

But I'm running out of solid ground

But you're keeping me round

Like the family hound, I'm down and out

Not in the ground

My face has aged to fit my father's anti-adolescent gaze

And all I touch just turns away

Should I hang up the crown

If it meant that the day

Was a frame to be stolen and hidden away?

No more nights spent nailed in place

(I feel so stretched in many ways)

Just paint me jade

With dreams washed down the drain

'Cause I don't feel the way I'd like to

This was not the way my life was supposed to be

And I keep greeting you with apologies

Saying, "Hey, it's just my life's in disarray"

Almost dug myself a grave

Fight these thoughts off every day

But I'm glad that you're here to say