Pictures of Ted - Stretch

When I look up to the skies I see your eyes a funny kind of yellow I rush home to bed I soak my head I see your face underneath my pillow I wake next morning tired still yawning See your face come peaking through my window Pictures of matchstick men and you Mirages of matchstick men and you All I ever see is them and you Windows echo your reflection When I look in their direction gone When will this haunting stop Your face it just wont leave me a-lone Pictures of matchstick men and you Mirages of matchstick men and you All I ever see is them and you You in the sky you with this guy you make men cry you lie You in the sky you with this guy you make men cry you lie Pictures of matchstick men, Pictures of matchstick...

Somebody's shouting Up at a mountain Only my own words return Nobody's up there It's a deception When will I ever learn? I'm alone here With emptiness eagles and snow Unfriendliness chilling my body And whispering pictures of home Wondering blindly How can they find me? Maybe they don't even know My body is shaking Anticipating The call of the black footed crow I'm alone here With emptiness eagles and snow Unfriendliness chilling my body And taunting with pictures of home Here in this prison Of my own making Year after day I have grown Into a hero But there's no worship Where have they hidden my throne? I'm alone here With emptiness eagles and snow Unfriendliness chilling my body And screaming out pictures of home

I feel just like Picasso And you're my masterpiece I painted you a lifetime Now what's left are memories Oooh Sunlight's in the curtains Diamonds in the trees I gave you colors blue and gold As you lay upon the sheets Something so familiar drawn from this blank page Every line from my hand takes me back to what I can't erase No matter how I try, no matter what I do I'm still painting pictures of you I could almost smell your perfume In each brush stroke of the flowers I left you tea from China Waiting in your sacred tower Something so familiar drawn from this blank page Every line from my hand takes me back to what I can't erase No matter how I try, no matter what I do I'm still painting pictures of you If I should go crazy, if I would go blind I'd still fill the canvas from the pictures in my mind If that's the only way to make you mine It was something so familiar Drawn from this blank page Every line from my hand takes me back to what I can't erase No matter how I try, no matter what I do I'm still painting pictures, I'm always painting pictures Still painting pictures of you Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh...

I've been looking so long at these pictures of you That I almost believe that they're real I've been living so long with my pictures of you That I almost believe that the pictures are all I can feel Remembering you standing quiet in the rain As I ran to your heart to be near And we kissed as the sky fell in Holding you close How I always held close in your fear If only I'd thought of the right words I could've held on to your hand If onlt I'd thought of the right words I wouldn't be breaking apart All my pictures of you There was nothing in the world That I ever wanted more Than to feel you deep in my heart There was nothing in the world That I ever wanted more Than to never feel the breaking apart All my pictures of you.

I've been thinking 'bout what you have done to me The damage is much deeper then you'll ever see Hit me like a hammer to my head I wonder, were you pushed or were you led Why did you do it? Why did you do that thing to me Why did you do it? Why did you do that thing to me The only one who knows the truth Man, thats him and me and you My friends they listen to the things I say They listen and they here more every day But I know they never understand it Because it was no accident you planned it Why did you do it? Why did you do that thing to me Why did you do it? Why did you do that thing to me The only one who knows the truth Man, thats him and me and you I've been thinking 'bout what you have done to me The damage is much deeper then you'll ever see Hit me like a hammer to my head I wonder, were you pushed or were you led Why did you do it? Why did you do that thing to me Why did you do it? Why did you do that thing to me The only one who knows the truth Man, thats him and me and you