[Intro] (Phased guitar arpeggio, vinyl crackle, four bars) [Verse 1 - low sung-rap, behind the beat, dub delay on line ends] Woke up under water in a room I paid to be in, ceiling doing that thing where it breathes when you don't sleep. I been counting on the morning like a man counts on a check that he knows ain't coming, but he waits by the door. (waits by the door) Doctor said give it time. Time said give it more. And the gray don't announce itself, it just sort of moves in, eats the color out the corners till the whole thing's a photograph somebody left in a window for a year. (for a year) [Pre-Chorus - drums drop, guitar swells backwards] I'm not asking for the mountain. I'm not asking for the view. Just a little bit of green. Just a little bit of blue. [Chorus - kit crashes in, wide, half-sung] Take me to the right side of life. I'm ready for my sunshine. Been through the worst and paid the price, so please take me to where the grass is green. I been in the gray for a long time praying for color on my knees. [Verse 2 - low, atmospheric, continuation of Verse 1's groove] Left the television running just to hear a human voice, shadows stretching on the plaster making patterns out of noise. I been walking through the hours like I'm stepping over glass, holding onto every minute waiting for the storm to pass. (storm to pass) Dust is settling on the table, coffee’s turning cold as stone, got a house full of pictures but I'm sitting here alone. Watching sunlight hit the hallway where the shadows used to lie, just waiting for a flicker in the corner of my eye. (of my eye) [Pre-Chorus - drums drop, guitar swells backwards] I'm not asking for the mountain. I'm not asking for the view. Just a little bit of green. Just a little bit of blue. [Chorus - kit crashes in, wide, half-sung] Take me to the right side of life. I'm ready for my sunshine. Been through the worst and paid the price, so please take me to where the grass is green. I been in the gray for a long time praying for color on my knees. [Bridge - bass, backwards guitar, one voice] And I know how this sounds. Grown man on the floor of a rented room asking the ceiling for a favor. But somebody's got to be up there taking requests. Somebody's got to be — (and if there isn't) (and if there isn't) then I guess I'm asking me. [Final Chorus - gang vocals, tape hiss up, backwards swell over the top] Take me to (take me to) the right side of life. (right side of life) I'm ready for my sunshine. Been through the worst and paid the price, so please take me to (take me to) where the grass is green. (where the grass is green) I been in the gray for a long time praying for color on my knees. Take me to. Take me to. [Outro - one unresolved chord, ringing, left to decay]
