When I Paint My Masterpiece (Live at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, June 17, 1991)

[Verse 1]

Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble

Ancient footprints are everywhere

Well, you could almost think that you're seein' double

On a cold dark night on the Spanish Stairs

[Chorus 1]

Gotta hurry on back to my hotel room

Where I've got me a date with Botticelli's niece

She promised she'd be right there with me

When I paint my masterpiece

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]

Oh, the hours I've spent inside the Colosseum

Dodging lions, yes, and wastin' timе

Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle

I could hardly stand to see 'еm

Where it sure has been a long hard climb

[Chorus 2]

Train wheels rollin' through the back of my memory

When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese

And someday, life will be sweet like a rhapsody

When I paint my masterpiece

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]

So I left Rome, and I landed in Brussels

On a flight so darn bumpy that I almost cried

Clergymen in uniform, young girls pullin' muscles

Well, it sure has been a long hard ride

[Chorus 3]

Newspapermen eating candy

Had to be held down by big police

And someday, everything gonna be different

When I paint my masterpiece

[Outro]

Someday, everything's gonna be different, yes, it will

When I paint my masterpiece

When I paint (When I paint) my masterpiece