Odes to Joy

An Ode to Fordite: Joy Drops Keep Falling · Track 8 · middle

Don't Stop Receiving

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Lyrics

Just a single drop of paint
On a factory line
A flash of candy apple red
Nineteen sixty-nine
It landed on a metal skid
Just a forgotten fleck
A tiny promise of the color
We hadn't seen yet

Then a coat of racing green
A deep midnight blue
Moving through the curing ovens
Something old made new
Day by day, the layers grow
A silent history
Building up a rainbow from
The Ford Motor Company

The heat is rising up now
The pressure's holding on
A thousand painted moments
Are singing one long song

Colors waiting
Piling up in secret streams
Overspray in firelight
Building up these painted dreams
Don't stop receiving
Hold on to that layered feeling
Joylight people
Living just to feel the glow!

Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
But the paint just kept on falling
A river with no end
It doesn't matter who you are
The colors always land

The heat is rising up now
The pressure's holding on
A thousand captured moments
Are singing one long song

Colors waiting
Piling up in secret streams
Overspray in firelight
Building up these painted dreams
Don't stop receiving
Hold on to that layered feeling
Joylight people
Living just to feel the glow!

From a dusty factory corner
Saved from the machine
Polished into patterns
A psychedelic scene

Colors waiting!
Piling up in secret streams!
Overspray in firelight!
Building up these painted dreams!
Don't stop receiving!
Hold on to that layered feeling!
Joylight people!
Living just to feel the glow!

Don't stop receiving
Hold on
Joylight people
Hold on to that feeling
Layers shining
Don't stop receiving...
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