The Painter and the Chemist

Are you alone in these northern states
Lost in chemicals and your grave fate
Like stars they got lost in the cities shine
Remember how you sewed yourself back with bailing twine

And in this house you found
All my painting that you could not read
Those chemicals won't let you see
All that I am and will not be

But when there's nothing left in your star lit sky
All lost in the summer heat of this empty July
And let the catalyst of your aging shine
Because it's the painter and the chemist who see the beauty in the absence of light

Now on the bow you stand
All left with nothing to show but your empty hands
Now call out
To those ghost they'll never show you land

But when there's nothing left in your star lit sky
All lost in the summer heat of this empty July
And let the catalyst of your aging shine
Because it's the painter and the chemist who see the beauty in the absence of light