Painting By Numbers - Mary Hopkin

You live your life

Painting by numbers from one to five

Figures outlined

Neatly outlined

But those you try

So hard to control will step out of line

'Cause nothing in life

Is so clearly defined

You know that I’ve tried

To play by your rules

I’ve smiled Mona Lisa

To your Leonardo

You color me red

Though I’m feeling blue

Alone in your bed

Waiting for you

You brush aside

All sign of emotion never denied

No clouds in your sky

No waves on your ocean

You know that I’ve tried

To play by your rules

You played the king

And I played the fool

You painted my heart

The likeness so true

So why did your pen

Have to tear it in two?

You live your life

Painting by numbers from one to five

Figures outlined

Neatly outlined

But as the years go by

Your colors will run and fade into nothing

And one day you’ll find

That your life has run dry