When I Paint My Masterpiece Lyrics

Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble
Ancient footprints are everywhere
Well you could almost think that you're seein' double
On a cold dark night on the Spanish Stairs

Got to hurry on back to my hotel room
Where I've got me a date with Botticelli's niece
She promised, she'd be right there with me
When I paint my masterpiece

Oh, the hours I've spent inside the Coliseum
Dodging lions and wastin' time
Those mighty kings of the jungle, I could hardly stand to see 'em
Well, it sure has been a long hard climb

The train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory
When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese
Someday, life will be sweet like a rhapsody
When I paint my masterpiece

So I left Rome and I landed in Brussels
On a plane so bumpy that I almost cried
Clergymen in uniform, yes and young girl pullin' muscles
Well, it should have been a long hard ride

Newspapermen eating candy
Had to be held down by big police
Someday, everything is gonna be different
When I paint my masterpiece, that's right

Someday, everything is gonna be different
When I paint my masterpiece
When I paint my masterpiece

Grateful Dead - Postcards of the Hanging: The Grateful Dead Perform the Songs of Bob Dylan

Aug 2004

1. When I Paint My Masterpiece
2. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
3. Maggie's Farm
4. Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
5. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
6. Ballad of a Thin Man
7. Desolation Row
8. All Along the Watchtower
9. Man of Peace