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Adele – Painting Pictures (2008) | Track profile | Dork

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Adele
19 (Japanese and New Zealanders edition)
Painting Pictures

TRACK

Painting Pictures

Release date: 28th January 2008

From 19 (Japanese and New Zealanders edition)

About This Track

"Painting Pictures" is a track by Adele, from the album 19 (Japanese and New Zealanders edition), released 28th January 2008. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about Adele.

About the Artist

Adele

Adele

Lyrics

Painting Pictures

Painting pictures with my mind

Making memories using my eyes

Filling up my heart with golden stories

Who adds some spice to the rhythm of life

Ooh

Welcome sunrise with the morning glory

I've changed my mind

There is no simple life for me

I want to see

I want to feel my heartbeat so

With the world that you feeling

I can feel the pressure pushing onto my heart

And it's teasing me

So scratch my itch and beat my drum

So I can start to begin what's begun

Painting pictures

Filling up my heart with golden stories

Painting pictures

Filling up my heart with golden stories

Running riots inside my soul

Fire burning and it's lighting me up

To scratch my itch and beat my drum

So I can finish what I have begun

Painting pictures

Filling up my heart with golden stories

Painting pictures

Filling up my heart with golden stories

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Track details

From 19 (Japanese and New Zealanders edition)

2008

Listen

Album

19 (Japanese and New Zealanders edition)

Release year

2008

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—Painting Pictures

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Adele
Producer: Jim Abbiss