Gm/EbFsus/DbGm/EbFsus/DbGm/EbFsus/DbDm7
Some folks see the world as a stone
Gm/EbFsus/DbGm/EbFsus/DbGm/EbFsus/DbDm7
Con crete daubed in dull mono tone
Eb/CF/D
Your heart is the big box of paints
Gm/DbF/D
And others, the canvas we're dealt
Eb/CF/D
Your heart is the big box of paints
Gm/DbF/D
How coloured the flowers all smelled
Eb/DbEb
As they huddled there, in petalled prayer
Eb/BEb/BbAFGm/EbFsus/DbGb
They told me this, as I knelt there
GG/GbG/EEb
Awaken you dreamers, adrift in your beds
GG/GbG/EEb
Balloons and streamers decorate the inside of your heads
DD/E
Please let some out, Do it today
D/GbGm/Eb
But don't let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey
Gm/EbFsus/DbGm/EbFsus/DbD
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 called…
Awaken you dreamers, asleep at your desks
Parrots and lemurs, populate your unconscious grotesques
Please let some out, Do it today,
Don't let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey
Gb/EbAb/FBb/Gb
And in the very least you can stand up naked and grin!
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.