Pretenders - I Didn't Know When to Stop lyrics

[Pretenders - I Didn't Know When to Stop lyrics]

Sunrise, landscape, I portrait it to ya
Abstract cubist and specialist view
A delicate line, a bolt shone a blind
Once the brush hit's the canvas
There's no turnin' back

I didn't know when the paint would dry
Kept goin' back for another try
I start at the bottom,  I dig at the top
I didn't know when to stop
I didn't know when to

I think I captured you in spite as I was
But, you couldn't see it but only because
My first attempt, stay with doubt
I grab my coat
Find the door and make my way out

I didn't know when the paint would dry
Kept goin' back for another try
I start at the bottom, I dig at the top
I didn't know when to stop
I didn't know when to

Well you see a fraud and no one else knows
A catwalk phenomenon, the emperor's clothes
A faithful likeness but something ain't right
I painted over you in cadmium blue light

I didn't know when the paint would dry
Kept goin' back for another try
I start at the bottom, I dig at the top
I didn't know when to stop
I start at the bottom, I dig at the top
I didn't know when to stop
I didn't know when to

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