Released: July 17, 2020
Songwriter: Chrissie Hynde James Walbourne
Producer: Stephen Street
[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
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
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