Painted away the sun For the picture I'd become Color the sound of thunder in the distance A lonely sky Ghosts were giving chase And the brush revealed your face And then I mixed the pigments up With venom and I'm a lonely god Who can't explain Colliding characters But from a bird's eye point of view Well, all the world is Green and gold and grey to blue Brightness falling from the ashes crawling It's alive... It's alive... It's alive... Oh, it's alive... Painted a rising sun And the clouds did come undone Artificial thunder (artificial thunder) in the distance The sirens cry Here to take my place With a mirror for a face Last leg of the feedback loop For devils and gods to even odds And break away Brightness falling from the ashes crawling It's alive... It's alive... It's alive... Oh, it's alive... Here we go 'round the bend Through the orbit once again From a fate that we cannot defend This little boy Renews the promise of a man For the future is ours to command I'm dreaming on borrowed time And I don't want to wake Can't tell if I'm falling or I'm flying Another leap of faith Say goodbye and the sun goes down Watch you turn the bend But I remember the world is round You'll be back again I stoke the fire in a statue's heart Nobody notices The eyes of a ghost In a haunted work of art Watch it come alive It's alive... It's alive... It's alive...