Paint By Numbers

Album: Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally (2026)
Charted: 45
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  • Oh, what a gift it is to be noticed
    But it's nothin' to do with me
    You've got to wonder if there's a reason to believe

    It's a lifetime of learnin' to paint by numbers
    Watchin' the colors run

    It's a little bit complicated
    When they put an image in your head, and now you're stuck with it
    You're the luckiest, oh, the irony
    Holdin' the weight of the American children whose hearts you break
    Was it a tragedy when you told her
    "I'm not even thirty-three"?
    A little self-compassion and a life within your means

    It's a lifetime of pickin' from one or the other
    Kids with water guns, watch them run

    It's a lifetime of learnin' to paint by numbers
    Watchin' the colours run Writer/s: Harry Edward Styles, Thomas Edward Percy Hull, Tyler Johnson
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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