Paint a pretty picture,
Paint exactly what you see,
Paint the crack between the earth,
that represent their broken dreams.
Paint the sun in the sky,
Paint the fire that it brings,
Paint the song that the tears in the ocean sing.
Now close your eyes,
Paint exactly what you feel,
Paint the hurt and sorrow that this world yields.
Paint the homelessness that covers the streets,
and paint the suffrage of their heartbeats.
Paint the racism and the disapproving looks,
Paint this world like a picture book.
So paint a pretty picture,
Paint exactly what they want to see.
Cover the corruption with flowers and trees,
Paint a pretty picture to cover the cuts the world bleeds.
And paint a pretty picture to cover the silence and greed.
So paint a pretty picture,
Paint this world,
Paint a dream,
Paint a pretty picture, shall we call it the land of make believe?