A Lovely World

Estou "resgatando" meus posts do Yahoo 360. Os últimos 45 posts eu consegui baixar pro Multiply e o restante será selecionado e colocado aqui.

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Painters
Jewel

...sitting on the front porch
Watching the clouds roll by
They remind her of her lover, how he left her, and of times long ago.
When she used to color carelessly
painted his portrait
A thousand times-or maybe just his smile-
And she and her canvas would follow him wherever he would go
'Cause they were painters and they were painting themselves
A lovely world.

Oil streaked daisies covered the living room wall
He put water-colored roses in her hair
He said, "Love, I love you,
I want to give you the mountains, the sunshine, the sunset too
I just want to give you a world that is as beautiful as you are to me
'Cause I'm a painter and I want to paint you a lovely world."

So they sat down and made a drawing of their love,
they made it an art to live by
They painted every passion, every home, created every beautiful child
In the winter they were weavers of warmth, in summer they were carpenters of love
They thought blue prints were too sad so they made them yellow
They were painters and they were painting themselves a lovely world.

Until one day the rain fell as thick as black oil
And in her heart she knew something was wrong
She went running through the orchard screaming,
"No God, don't take him from me!"
But by the time she got there, she feared he already had gone
She got to where he lay, water-colored roses in his hands for her
She threw them down screaming:
"Damn you man, don't leave me with nothing left behind but these cold paintings,these cold portraits to remind me!"

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