Painted Pictures - Rick James

Love is not a color

You can paint black or white, no, no

Picture that in your mind

Love is not a feeling

That you let go to at night, no, no

Picture that in your mind

You can play the game, you’re so strong

You can say you’re right when you’re wrong

Still your life is just painted pictures

You can laugh when you want to cry

Say hello when you mean goodbye

Still your life is just painted pictures

Painted pictures, painted pictures

Painted pictures, painted pictures

Love is not a candle

That you turn on like a light, no, no

Picture that in your mind

Love is not a collar

You can call wrong or right, no, no

Picture that in your mind

You can give the things you don’t have

You can lose the things that you love

Still your life is just painted pictures

You can play you’re straight when you’re not

You can say you’re cold when you’re hot

Still your life is just painted pictures

You can play you’re good when you’re bad

You can say you’re glad when you’re sad

Still your life is just painted pictures

You can lose when you want to win

You can die and be born again

Still your life is just painted pictures

Painted pictures, painted pictures

Painted pictures, painted pictures

You can play the game, you’re so strong

You can say you’re right when you’re wrong

Still your life is just painted pictures

You can laugh when you want to cry

Say hello when you mean goodbye

Still your life is just painted pictures