Name: Paint This House
Duration: P00H02M49S
Description: words and music by Eric Gant and Timothy H. Patton

Paint This House

from Chalice by Eric Gant

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words and music by Eric Gant and Timothy H. Patton

lyrics

The things that she has thrown at me have marked on my walls
With lines of her anger and the shapes of my faults.
They're in every room. They're even in the hall.
I see each one, and I recall them all.

Paint this house!
Paint this house!
Paint this house!
Paint this house!

This flat coat paint will not come clean
No elbow grease and no machine
Will take out the Rorschach coffee stains
That bring back things I wish I'd never seen

Paint this house!
Paint this house!
Paint this house!
Paint this house!

I'm gonna paint this house, and I'll start over.
I'll sprout anew, and I'll recover.
I'll grow in a place where I chose the color,
One room green and the next one ocre.

Paint this house!
Paint this house!
Paint this house!
Paint this house!

I'm gonna give this place a brand new skin,
A clean new slate that I'll live in
With fresh new walls and no signs of my sins.
I'm gonna paint the place where I begin again.

Paint this house!
Paint this house!
Paint this house!
Paint this house!

One room at time I'll change it
With new furniture, too, and arrange it.

Paint this house!
Paint this house!

I don't think that I had all things wrong.
I just learned some lessons for far too long.

Paint this house!
Paint this house!
I'm gonna paint this house!
I'm gonna paint this house!
Now I'm gonna paint this house!
Now I'm gonna paint this house!
But now I'm gonna paint this house!
But now I'm gonna paint this house!

I won't be doin' the same old bit.
I'll need a new backdrop and a set that fits.

credits

from Chalice, track released October 12, 2010
Eric Gant: vocals, lead & rhythm guitar
Jason "Lefty" Williams: slide guitar
Todd Smallie: bass guitar
Scott Phillips: Drums

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