when to step away

[Verse 1] Painted you in different lighting About a thousand times over Not a single version left me satisfied I'd reworked it and reframed it Thinking I could bring us closer Until you were too abstract to recognize [Pre-Chorus] I had no reference Or measure of progress All I could do was blend into your life [Chorus] Penciling in every inch of your skin Sketching out all your proportions like they're mine Print and reprint, starting from scratch again Oh, I was never quite done with you, was I? Detail obsеssed half the time But thе finer the line, then the easier it is erased The hardest part about the art of loving you Was knowing when to step away [Verse 2] Lost the color in my face but left it to interpretation Orchestrated my bad taste palatable Making marks and accolades, but all the closure that I crave it's In front of me, and hung up on my wall [Pre-Chorus] 'Cause I had no reference Or measure of progress All I could do was rewrite what went wrong [Chorus] Penciling in every inch of your skin Sketching out all your proportions like they're mine Print and reprint, starting from scratch again Oh, I was never quite done with you, was I? Detail obsessed half the time But the finer the line, then the easier it is erased The hardest part about the art of loving you Was knowing when to step away Knowing when to step away Knowing when to step away