Citizen Fish - Paint lyrics

I heard the notes all fade away Leaving memorial stones Yesterday's thoughts have come to stay Until they decompose A picture paints a thousand words With nothing much to say What last night seemed had to be heard Is left unsaid today So when you said you understood I couldn't understand I was looking at an empty beach As you saw all the grains of sand I was counting views from windows When you looked in from outside The light was blurred and distant And several cities wide So I turn up the volume To hear the notes so dim You said you couldn't hear it So I asked you to come in Then you held up a mirror And I saw my face congeal I was thin and getting thinner And I dreamt for real