If I Were a Painting

If I were a painting

Captured on canvas

Alone in the portrait I would standAnd brush strokes bold

Yet soft as a whisper

The work of a feminine handCaught in the still life

Surrounded by shadows

Or lost in a background of blueIf I were a painting

My price would be pain

And the artist would have to be youI imagine the colors

Would all run together

If you ever allowed me to crySo don't paint the tears

Just let me remember me

Without you in my lifeIt's only the frame

That holds me together

Or else I'd be falling apartIf I were a painting

I wouldn't feel

And you wouldn't be breaking my heart

Songwriters

EWING II, DONALD / SAMPSON, DONALDPublished by

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