Key: A major
Verse 1
Bsus4
B
Bsus4
B
E
One day I'll be an artist,
B
C#m
I will rise up with the dawn
B
Bsus4
B
Mix colours for my canvas
G#m
E
F#sus4
In paint er's light
E
B
In the quiet there, a fishing boat will
Verse 2
B
gently breathe
In its colours,
and reflect across the sky- filled seam
G#m
B
G#m
E
In paint er's light
F#sus4
B
Verse 3
B
E
I don't know what it is that's kept me
Best way to kill the thing you love
E
C#m
B
is if you nev er even try
B
Verse 4
When I was but a boy,
I fell in love with how the hand
Bsus4
B
E
B
With just a pencil could create a flower, a face,
a country landscape
G#m
E
And how an artist could wear
F#sus4
B
E
his heart right on my sleeve
Verse 5
B
until that boy became a man
G#m
My childhood dreams of exhibitions somehow
stayed a secret plan
F#sus4
E
G#m
what life can do with plans
Verse 6
C#m
B
that I commit the perfect crime
Say, each man kills the thing he loves
E
B
if you just give him enough time
B
Bsus4
Verse 7
B
One day I'll be an artist,
I will rise up with the dawn
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