Solaire and Siffrin similarities
-Lost an eye (although from different causes)
-Has bad memory
-Likes puns (although Solaire doesnt make a ton of them)
-Doesnt remember their past
-Holds their friends dear
-touch-starved
-names start with an S
-Both get crushed by a rock
-Both have some weird thing helping them (Seraph likes to insult Solaire more though)
-Both snatch things
I spend my hours doing alchemy
I mix my yellows and my blues to make a shade of green
Prosaic practice of depravity
Suspending innocents above their disbelief
I wish that I could paint a pretty picture onto everything
And leave a mark upon the world that felt like anything
But maybe that's the essence of an artist and their legacy
Just chasing down a sense of infamy
Put brush to canvas with a pirouette
A simple motion makes the consequence intricate
All the little nothings, and my parapet
I hope it's something that you don't forget
Cadmium red is the ground beneath
Cadmium orange, everything I see
Cadmium yellow is the air I breathe
Cadmium colors painted inside me
I can make autumn from a single leaf
Steal a fine picture like a first class thief
Make the water work like you won't believe
Find a new world that can set you free
How could anybody ever live like me?
I spend my hours doing alchemy
I make a life refining zinc inside the smeltery
It's not exactly where I want to be
But wanting doesn't matter when there's mouths to feed
I wish that I could paint a pretty picture of a fantasy
And turn a feeling to a living for my family
Instead, I'll make the metals in the pigments in my reverie
And maybe that can be enough for me
Oh, isn't it funny, facing destiny?
It's like a knife inside, twisting my arteries
God, I want for nothing but identity
(I think that something might be wrong with me)
Cadmium red is the ground beneath
Cadmium orange, everything I see
Cadmium yellow is the air I breathe
Cadmium colors painted inside me
Ante-grade fever, 101 degrees
Shatter my body with a gentle breeze
Damn it, I am real and I have my dreams
Watch me burn brighter 'til I fail to breathe
How could anybody ever live like me?
Baby, do you know what it's like to die?
To see the sparkle fade from inside your eye
I can't remember what it's like to feel autonomy
Can't even feel it in the moments that you left to me /lyr