Colour Me, Cover Me (Acoustic) - Alan Erickson

Here we are again Fading light Those gleaming eyes and freckled smile Light up the night Here we are alone My lips on yours The taste of the candy and salt Drives me for more Tied to my heart with your ballpoint pen Say you love me again and again There will never be an end To this love, my dear friend You colour me You colour my soul Paint me red in places once filled with gold You colour me You colour my soul Make me dream of things I never did once before Here we are again Telling me it's my fault Things I don't understand Things beyond control Here we are alone You resting by my side Those broken glass and shatter mines Cloud my mind Before you stab my heart with your ballpoint pen Say you love me again and again There will never be an end To this love, my dear friend You colour me You colour my soul Paint me red in places once filled with gold You colour me You colour my soul Made me dream of things I never did once before Lipstick stains on these clothes of mine Hold your scent, frozen in time Lipstick stains on these clothes of mine Hold your love, frozen in time You colour me You colour my soul Paint me red in places once filled with gold You colour me You colour my soul Make me dream of things I never did once before

You colour me in gold Lips like petals on my throat And those fingertips like paintbrush strokes Paper boats softly float like a song we wrote But summer comes, and summer goes You change your hair, you change your clothes The books you read help you explore The world that you believed in Once before You colour me in gold Kiss the freckles on my nose With those blood-red pomegranate lips Taking sips, hand on hip Your face could launch a thousand ships But winter comes and brings the snow You change your job, you change your home Still reading books about the ghost Of a world you can't believe in anymore And after all, you've been nothing but good to me And the only way that I can pay you back Is to daily seek those distant memories While I'm standing next to you So when springtime comes and blossoms grow Come take my hand, can we expose The hideaways, the hidden doors The stories we believed in, uh-uh-oh The land that we both dreamed in once before Uh-uh-uh-uh You colour me in gold

Front porch swing I watched the sunset Be covered by clouds Building in the southwest I heard the rumble As it light up the sky Silence came Silence went I heard the roar as it tore through town Whoa hell came down 15 square miles in less than an hour Ugly scars, shattered hearts 26 here and gone When the devil, came down to play Morning comes, I realize monsters don't come from beneath they come from the sky I close my eyes cry out to God you can wake me up any damn time you please Whoa hell came down 15 square miles in less than an hour Ugly scars, shattered hearts 26 here and gone When the devil, came down to play I lost three in 1970, the 11th of May when the devil came down to play Whoa hell came down 15 square miles in less than an hour Ugly scars, shattered hearts 26 here and gone When the devil, came down to play Whoa hell came down 15 square miles in less than an hour Ugly scars, shattered hearts 26 here and gone When the devil, came down to play I realize monsters don't come from beneath they come from the sky

All my life There you go Oh, please stay Just this once Anyway All my life There they go Oh, please stay For the night Anyway All my life There you go Oh, please stay Just this once Anyway All my life There they go Oh, please stay For the night Anyway