Dave Alvin - Museum Of Heart Lyrics

Museum of Heart

Well I painted a beautiful picture of a love that never died
It's a portrait of two lovers standing side by side
She looked so happy and he's so full of pride
And in my beautiful painting they never said goodbye

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So I'm looking at you even though were far apart
As I hang another painting in my museum of heart

Then I painted another painting in several shades of gray
It's a portrait of two lovers with so much left to say
One reaches for the other and tries to make them stay
But in my gray painting one lover walks away

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So I'm looking at you even though were far apart
As I hang another painting in my museum of heart

Well my paintings look like photographs, real as they can be
And I never need a model cause I paint from memory

Well my greatest masterpiece is the one that I hate to see
It's a portrait of two lovers looking happy as can be
Standing side by side neither one will ever leave
But in my greatest masterpiece no lover looks like me

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So I'm looking at you even though were far apart
As I hang another painting in my museum of heart

[Thanks to blongtin for adding these lyrics]