Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Jawbox
Canonical path: /jawbox/paint-out-the-light
Related lyric paths: 6
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Paint Out The Light
Read Paint Out The Light lyrics by Jawbox on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Paint Out The Light
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You paint walls and buildings so tall
Sunlight never reaches the earth
A birth as the paint covers cracks
And stains, and nothing remains
No, nothing remains
But a new face so pale and white
Sunlight makes it shrink
And think that maybe the womb
Sings a better tune
Sings a better tune
And the mind-bending heat of blistering streets
And air so polluted
That every breath is a curse
You paint walls and buildings so tall
That sunlight never reaches earth
But the sound of crying
Still will reach your ears
Still will reach your ears
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Jawbox performs "Paint Out The Light", and this lyric page sits inside the Jawbox catalog on LyroVerse.
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