XTC - Wrapped in Grey lyrics

Some folks see the world as a stone
Concrete daubed in dull monotone

Your heart is the big box of paints
And others, the canvas we're dealt
Your heart is the big box of paints
How coloured the flowers all smelled
As they huddled there, in petalled prayer
They told me this, as I knelt there

Awaken you dreamers adrift in your beds
Balloons and streamers
Decorate the inside of your heads
Please let some out do it today
But don't let the loveless ones sell you
A world wrapped in grey

Some folks pull this life like a weight
Drab and dragging dreams made of slate

Your heart is the big box of paints
And others, the canvas we're dealt
Your heart is the big box of paints
Just think how the old masters felt
They call

Awaken you dreamers asleep at your desks
Parrots and lemurs
Populate your unconscious grotesques
Please let some out do it today
But don't let the loveless ones sell you
A world wrapped in grey

And in the very least you can
Stand up naked and grin