Paint me lifeless gray

For I have lost a friend today

To desperate selfishness

And so I will regress

To something more disturbing

Than all my words can say

Black and white can not explain

So paint me lifeless gray

Paint me darkest black

Tightened rope will never slack

To free the chosen few

Or change my charcoal hue

I may be color-coated

But that won't hide the fact

That under shades of lifeless gray

I'm painted darkest black

It's just about that time of year

When we will lose somebody dear

Is that a funeral march I hear

It's just about that time of year

Paint me burning red

All the things he did and said

And now I feel ashamed

I thought it was a game

I will not rationalize

Or justify the dead

I only want to free myself

From all this burning red

It's just about that time of year

When we will lose somebody dear

Is that a funeral march I hear

It's just about that time of year