Wipe the darkest shades away
Happiness your saving grace
Ignorance won't clean the slate

Won't find your final resting place

Don't circle 'round the task at hand

Or take a fall when you can stand
Disregard the reprimand
Needing more than secondhand


There's bigger pictures to paint
More horizons to chase

Something better than searching, reaching
Burning, bleeding black and white
Deeper oceans to swim

Unpredictable whims
And you're learning, you're learning
Freedom's worth the fight


Dreams dashed with apathy
Leave the ledge and set them free

Scaling walls in disbelief
Oh, you can't climb when you can't dream


(Chorus)

Tied up & bound in the cords of our conviction

Got my bag of tricks & my pocket full of luck
Watercolor, paint by number, a reminder of another
Telling me to stay in line

But I'm suffocating...

(Chorus)


Pictures to paint (How to laugh)
Horizons to chase (How to cry)

Better than searching (How to live with saying goodbye)
Bleeding, bleeding black and white
Oceans to swim (How to change)

Unpredictable whims (Break away from it all)
And you're learning (Freedom's worth the fight)