These Colors Red

from Phoenix Rising by Nathan Duprey

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I am a black and white photograph
I’m charcoal, birch tree, white Cadillac
I’m the iris in the eye of hope
That knows just what it lacks
And I want to be roses instead

I’m just an empty park bench on a fall day
I’m hot, black asphalt to your summer parade
And if you think you could take the time to paint these colors red
Well, then I think I could change my mind
And be roses instead

I’m in a midnight graveyard throwing stones again
And I ask the furthest star
Can you see the end
And are there roses in your galaxy that know no thorn’s lament
Because I left my roses for these thorns
And I’m sure I’m at the end

I am a black and white photograph
I’m charcoal, birch tree, white Cadillac
And if you think you could take the time to pain these colors red
Well, then I think I could change my mind
And be roses instead

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from Phoenix Rising, released April 1, 2004

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