New Dress
(Tani)
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It was a new day
- at the edge of town
I pulled up to the sign by the
light of the rising sun
And with a new brush
and some old paint
I lowered the population here
by one
I’m painting my new dress red
As dark as the color of blood in
the pale moonlight
My new dress is red tonight
-tonight
I’d painted myself into a corner
There was nowhere to go in
that town of brown & grey
Now I’m sketching my horizon
It’s wide and it’s straight and it
never fades away
Chorus
It’s a still night –in a still life
I’m cleaning my brushes in a
bucket of kerosene
It’s a new day –in a new town
A match in the bucket and I
have my slate wiped clean |
Lyrics