Baby, you're fine! Just try to sit still, look beautiful
 I know that it's hard to forget about all the awful things that you've done
 but I've blocked them out.
 So I'll keep quiet and bury memories like a scared, old dog with his bone
 and every single night i'll stay in while outside it starts raining
 like the earth won't keep your secrets,
 and they're floating up to greet us
 but if the dirt won't keep your secrets then i will

 'cause I know it's late but I need you here (I've gotta to be going)
 The canvas will keep all those sins soaked in its thread (You've gotta move past this)
 I'll paint, i'll paint you a perfect portrait and cover all those flaws I never saw
 so you can't leave yet 'cause if the dirt can't keep your secrets then I won't stop

 Baby I'm right, I've never been wrong to [bad word] myself
 I know it got hard, (hard to forget about all the awful things that you've done)
 so you took a stab at something else.
 and I kept quiet and buried memories of a sad, young man all alone
 and every single night i'm painting while inside i'm still waiting for this house to feel like home

'cause I know it's late but I need you here (I've gotta to be going)
 The canvas will keep all those sins soaked in its thread (You've gotta move past this)
 I'll paint, i'll paint you a perfect portrait and cover all those flaws I never saw
 so you can't leave yet 'cause if the dirt can't keep your secrets

 So I'll work all night
 and I'll layer on the fiction with each smudged imperfect line
 and i'll let the rain dig up your past
 but I'm terrified of what the sky might find beneath the grass it's late but I need you here 
The canvas will keep all those sins soaked in its thread 
I'll paint, i'll paint you a perfect portrait and cover all those flaws I never saw
 so you can't leave yet 'cause if the dirt can't keep your secrets

I know it's late but I need you here (I've gotta to be going)
 The canvas will keep all those sins soaked in its thread (You've gotta move past this)
 I'll paint, i'll paint you a perfect portrait and cover all those flaws I never saw
 so you can't leave yet 'cause if the dirt can't keep your secrets then I won't stop.