Colorful Kid

Call when you leave
The food is terrible but the drinks are free
I’m close to madness but I can’t say a thing
“Learn to sing!
Teach the girls how to sing”

Take one for the team
You’re a colorful kid, learn to sing
Can you feel what it means to be listening?
When you speak to the tragedy you’re teeth are glistening
but they’re not listening

‘Cause the girls are young
They’re much too young
to touch me like it means anything

Put the words between your teeth and your tongue
They’re still too dumb
To understand what it means to be colorful

Is it clear as water in your head?
You turned they’re faces red
Board the bus and go to bed
I’m diseased like the doctor said
“You’ll be dead,
Just another colorful kid”

But I don’t take direction very well
“Learn to spell!
Perfection suits you well”

And we won’t take your orders through the phone
I’d rather be alone than teach them all what it means to be colorful

Gonna move to a lonely town
and teach the people there the colorful frown
It’ll take a battalion of machines to bring me around

Cause the girls are young
They’re much too young
to touch me like it means anything

Put the words between your teeth and your tongue
They’re still too dumb
To understand what it means to be colorful

(Lyrics copyright Christopher Stetson Wilson 2009)