Redefine

Album: S.C.I.E.N.C.E (1997)
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  • Imagine your brain as a canister filled with ink
    Yeah, now think of your body as the pen where the ink resides
    Fuse the two, kapow, what are you now?
    You're the human magic marker, won't you please surprise my eyes?
    It's in your nature, you can paint whatever picture you like
    No matter what Ted Koppel says on channel 4 tonight
    So modify this third rock from the sun
    By painting myriads of pictures with the colors of the one

    I'm sick of painting in black and white
    My pen is dry and I'm all uptight
    So sick of limiting myself
    To fit your definition
    I'm sick of painting in black and white
    My pen is dry and I'm all uptight
    So sick of limiting myself
    To fit your definition

    Picture the scene, where whatever you thought
    Would, in the blink of an eye, manifest and become illustrated
    You'd be sure man that every line drawn
    Reflected a life that you loved not an existence that you hated
    So, must we demonstrate that we can't get it straight?
    We've painted a picture now we're drowning in the paint
    Let's figure out what the fuck it's about
    Before the picture we painted chews us up and spits us out

    I'm sick of painting in black and white
    My pen is dry and I'm all uptight
    So sick of limiting myself
    To fit your definition
    I'm sick of painting in black and white
    My pen is dry and I'm all uptight
    So sick of limiting myself
    To fit your definition

    Redefine

    I'm sick of painting in black and white
    My pen is dry and I'm all uptight
    So sick of limiting myself
    To fit your definition

    So, must we demonstrate that we can't get it straight?
    We've painted a picture now we're drowning in the paint
    Let's figure out what the fuck it's about
    Before the picture we painted chews us up and spits us out Writer/s: Alex Katunich, Brandon Charles Boyd, Gavin Koppel, Jose Anthony Pasillas, Michael Aaron Einziger
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 10

  • Matt from Cleveland, OhThis song seems to be a precursor of the song "Make Yourself."
  • Zero from Nowhere, NjS.C.I.E.N.C.E. is def my favorite Incubus record. It's got the energy and silliness of Fungus Amongus/Enjoy Incubus but the intelligence and deep thinking of later Incubus. Plus it effin' rocks!
  • Alex from Bakersfield, CaThis song seems to be a precursor of the song "Make Yourself."
  • Roger from Waterford, MiAwesome bass riff in this tune.
  • Jawsh from G-vegas, ScThis song seems to be a precursor of the song "Make Yourself."
  • Pudie Tadow from Winchestertonfieldville, Iabrandon plays the digirido at the beginning of this song.
  • Nate from Aurora, IlI love the way you put that, Landon...incubus rocks and always will
  • Jack from Oklahoma City, OkThis song seems to be a precursor of the song "Make Yourself."
  • Tim from Pittsburgh, PaThis song seems to be a precursor of the song "Make Yourself."
  • Sarah-michelle from Leeds, Englandbrandon is hot!
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