Ain't No Layer High Enough

Lyrics

Listen, baby.
They left this piece behind on a factory skid.
Just a lump of overspray, something they hid.
But every coat of paint they laid... was a promise made.
A promise of the color inside.
And now... now it's time to let it shine.

If you see me on a shelf, looking grey and cold,
Just an old story, waiting to be told.
Remember the heat, remember the line,
Every single layer, a moment in time.
That's where the joy is sleeping.

But when the saw cuts true and the polish starts to gleam,
It wakes right up, a psychedelic dream.
My color's alive, running wild and free,
A history of motion, for the world to see.
Don't you know that...

Ain't no layer high enough,
Ain't no color deep enough,
Ain't no factory wide enough,
To keep this joy from breaking through.
Oh, babe.

From a rack in Detroit, baked in oven fire,
Every coat of enamel built my soul up higher.
A coat of '67 teal, a flash of '72 red,
All the dreams of the Motor City, inside my head.

'Cause ain't no layer high enough,
Ain't no color deep enough,
Ain't no factory wide enough,
To keep this joy from breaking through!
I'm coming to you!

My love is a rainbow, hardened into stone,
A million little moments, I've never been alone.
Through the heat and the pressure, the dust and the sound,
A solid block of happiness is what I've found!

Oh, deeper!
And wider!
And brighter!
Ain't no layer gonna hold it back!
Ain't no pressure gonna make it crack!
This joy is coming through!
Coming right on through to you!