I Didn't Know When to Stop

[Verse 1]

Sunrise, landscape, I portrait it to ya

Abstract cubist and specialist view

A delicate line, a bolt shone a blind

Once the brush hits the canvas there's no turnin' back

[Chorus]

I didn't know when the paint would dry

Kept goin' back for another try

I start at the bottom, I dig at the top

I didn't know when to stop

I didn't know when to

[Verse 2]

I think I captured you in spite as I was

But you couldn't see it but only because

My first attempt, stay with doubt

I grab my coat, find the door and make my way out

[Chorus]

I didn't know when the paint would dry

Kept goin' back for another try

I start at the bottom, I dig at the top

I didn't know when to stop

I didn't know when to

[Bridge]

Well you see a fraud and no one else knows

A catwalk phenomenon, the emperor's clothes

A faithful likeness but something ain't right

I painted over you in cadmium blue light

[Chorus]

I didn't know when the paint would dry

Kept goin' back for another try

I start at the bottom, I dig at the top

I didn't know when to stop

I start at the bottom, I dig at the top

I didn't know when to stop

I didn't know when to