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jamie paige - cadmium colors lyrics

[verse]
i spend my hours doing alchemy
i mix my yellows and my blues to make a shade of green
prosaic practice of depravity
suspending innocents above their disbelief
i wish that i could paint a pretty picture onto everything
and leave a mark upon the world that felt like anything
but maybe that’s the essence of an artist and their legacy
just chasing down a sense of infamy

put brush to canvas with a pirouette
a simple motion makes the consequence intricate
all the little nothings and my parapet
i hope its something that you don’t forget

[chorus]
cadmium red is the ground beneath
cadmium orange everything i see
cadmium yellow is the air i breathe
cadmium colors painted inside me
i can make autumn from a single leaf
steal a fine picture like a first class thief
make the water work like you won’t believe
find a new world that can set you free
how could anybody ever live like me?
[verse]
i spend my hours doing alchemy
i make a life producing zinc inside the smeltery
its not exactly where i want to be
but wanting doesn’t matter when there’s mouths to feed
i wish that i could paint a pretty picture of a fantasy
and turn a feeling to a living for my family
instead i make the metals in the pigments in my reverie
and maybe that can be enough for me

oh, isn’t it funny facing destiny?
its like a knife inside twisting my arteries
god, i want for nothing but identity
i think that something might be wrong with me

[chorus]
cadmium red is the ground beneath
cadmium orange everything i see
cadmium yellow is the air i breathe
cadmium colors painted inside me
antegrade fever, 101 degrees
shatter my body with a gentle breeze
dammit i am real and i have my dreams
watch me burn brighter til i fail to breathe
how could anybody ever live like me?
[bridge]
(baby do you know what it’s like to die)
(to watch the sparkle fade from inside your eye)
i can’t remember what it’s like to feel autonomy
can’t even feel it in the moments that you left to me
(i don’t wanna leave with a work undone)
(the paint can barely dry ‘fore it fills my lungs)
i kept a bullet in the chamber, taunting me
but i don’t wanna feel it coming out of me
i don’t want+

[verse]
i spend my hours doing alchemy
i mix my yellows and my blues to make a shade of green
chasing impossible philosophy
and hoping that this poison ain’t the death of me

[chorus]
cadmium red is the ground beneath
cadmium orange everything i see
cadmium yellow is the air i breathe
cadmium colors painted inside me
i can make autumn from a single leaf
steal a fine picture like a first class thief
make the water work like you won’t believe
find a new world that can set you free
how could anybody ever live like+
[outro]
(baby do you know what you wanna hear?)
(’cause you can say the word, make it all so clear)
we’re all just searching for a sense of solidarity
to hold each other close and confiscate our destiny
(no one wants to leave with a work undone)
(we only need a brush we can pass along)
i kept a bullet in the chamber for a rainy day
but whats the point in planning for it anyway?
i’ve got too many colors for a shade of grey
and i can make it autumn every single day

- jamie paige lyrics

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