Songwriter: Paula Cole
Producer: Kevin Killen
[Verse 1]
Goya and El Greco
Gauguin and Van Gogh
Painted light and darkness
Chiaroscuro
Imagine we were a painting
A woman and a man
Two lovers on the canvas
One is white, one is black
[Chorus]
Oh darkness and light will be married tonight
In chiaroscuro
Your body on mine—two colors combine
In chiaroscuro
[Verse 2]
Vermeer and Velázquez
Rembrant and Rousseau
Painted perfect union
Chiaroscuro
The man and the woman
The knife and the spoon
The xylem and the phloem
The sun and the moon
[Chorus]
Oh darkness and light will be married tonight
In chiaroscuro
Your body on mine—two colors combine
In chiaroscuro
[Bridge]
How we lived a secret life from racist eyes
You said I wouldn't understand you anyway I tried
[Verse 3]
In this moment together
In our secret unity
Our skins become a still life
Our souls epiphany
[Chorus]
Oh darkness and light will be married tonight
In chiaroscuro
Your body on mine—two colors combine
In chiaroscuro
Oh darkness and light will be married tonight
In chiaroscuro
Your body on mine—two colors combine
In chiaroscuro
Goya and El Greco
Gauguin and Van Gogh
Painted light and darkness
Chiaroscuro
Imagine we were a painting
A woman and a man
Two lovers on the canvas
One is white, one is black
[Chorus]
Oh darkness and light will be married tonight
In chiaroscuro
Your body on mine—two colors combine
In chiaroscuro
[Verse 2]
Vermeer and Velázquez
Rembrant and Rousseau
Painted perfect union
Chiaroscuro
The man and the woman
The knife and the spoon
The xylem and the phloem
The sun and the moon
[Chorus]
Oh darkness and light will be married tonight
In chiaroscuro
Your body on mine—two colors combine
In chiaroscuro
[Bridge]
How we lived a secret life from racist eyes
You said I wouldn't understand you anyway I tried
[Verse 3]
In this moment together
In our secret unity
Our skins become a still life
Our souls epiphany
[Chorus]
Oh darkness and light will be married tonight
In chiaroscuro
Your body on mine—two colors combine
In chiaroscuro
Oh darkness and light will be married tonight
In chiaroscuro
Your body on mine—two colors combine
In chiaroscuro
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Harbinger (1994)
Paula Cole popular songs
- I Don’t Want to Wait
- Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
- I Am So Ordinary
- Lovelight
- Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? (edit)
- God Bless The Child
- Me - remastered
- Hush, hush, hush. - remastered
- Carmen
- Mississippi
- Why Don’t You Go?
- Garden of Eden
- Be Somebody
- Lonelytown
- I Wanna Kiss You
- The Ladder
- Amen
- P.R.E.N.U.P.
- God Is Watching
- Me
- 14
- Throwing Stones
- Eloise
- Oh John