Color and Light

Song Color and Light
Artist Philip Quast
Album Live at the Donmar

Lyrics

[00:07.90] White, a blank page or canvas
[00:11.35] The challenge: To bring order to the whole
[00:15.40] Through design,
[00:17.43] Composition,
[00:19.61] Balance,
[00:22.56] Light,
[00:25.85] And harmony.
[00:41.21] "Sunday In The Park With George" by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim.
[00:44.90] And I got to play George. George Seurat.
[00:48.89] But, ahm, I knew nothing about painting.
[00:51.69] So Carol, my wife, and I went off to Paris to the Musée d'Orsay to find his paintings.
[00:58.86] We turned up at this, eh, amazing building,
[01:02.77] and, eh, we went in and -
[01:05.69] Look, if you come from where I come from you would never expect to see these things in a whole lifetime.
[01:10.59] And there they were, things you'd only ever seen in books.
[01:12.90] So... Cezannes and... waterlilies... that Monet fellow...
[01:18.32] And, eh... and Degas... and, eh... Toulouse-Lautrecs and Van Goghs, and, eh...
[01:26.45] And then there was this one painting... a Seurat...
[01:32.63] Look, it's made of a sort of dots...
[01:37.50] Thousands, millions of dots...
[01:43.18] And then - I got the score!
[01:48.79] Talk about dots...
[01:50.37] Oh, so much to learn!
[01:52.22] And I have to learn to paint
[01:53.33] Paint sticks, paint dogs...
[01:55.35] Sorry, darling?... A baby?!
[01:59.17] When? How long?...
[02:01.99] But I've gotta paint hats!
[02:04.17] More red...
[02:06.28] Me, a father...
[02:08.39] And a little more red...
[02:09.85] And I have to improve my articulation
[02:12.32] Blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue
[02:14.60] Even even... Good...
[02:16.59] And I have to rehearse my intonation
[02:19.73] Bumbum bum bumbumbum bumbum bum...
[02:23.54] And then I have to learn to count the beats
[02:25.37] (Two three four)
[02:26.93] More red... What?
[02:28.93] (One two three four)
[02:30.55] More blue...
[02:31.37] Two three four five - shit...
[02:33.59] (...seven eight)
[02:34.28] More beer...
[02:35.50] (Two three four five six seven eight)
[02:36.46] I don't care what we call it, I've gotta learn this song!
[02:38.41] (One two three four five six seven eight)
[02:41.40] More light!
[02:41.95] And right down in my guts, looming ever closer...
[02:44.84][04:17.59] Color and light
[02:45.82] ...was opening night
[02:47.97][04:20.37] There's only color and light
[02:49.40] Stephen Sondheim's what?
[02:51.68] Yellow and white
[02:53.30] In the building??!
[02:55.00] Just blue and yellow and white
[02:56.38] What if your baby comes on opening night?
[02:59.17] Look at the air, miss-
[03:00.98] See what I mean?
[03:03.44] Hello, Stephen. How are you?
[03:05.54] No, look over there, miss-
[03:08.11] That's done with green...
[03:09.96] He hates me... he hates me...
[03:11.93] Conjoined with orange
[03:18.15] I never gonna learn this
[03:19.68] Not in a million years...
[03:20.90] Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit...
[03:23.71] Oh bloody hell...
[03:25.79] Just look at it all, will you...
[03:28.40] Red red red red
[03:29.52][03:31.90] Red red orange
[03:32.61] Orange pick up blue
[03:33.45] Pick up red
[03:34.43] Pick up orange
[03:35.27] From the blue-green blue-green blue-green circle
[03:38.11] On the violet diagonal
[03:39.58] Di-ag-ag-ag-o-nal-nal-nal-nal
[03:42.21] Yellow comma yellow comma
[03:44.21] Numnum num numnumnum numnum num...
[03:47.79] Blue blue blue blue
[03:48.63] Blue still waiting
[03:49.77] Red that perfume
[03:50.62] Blue all night
[03:51.49] Blue-green the window shut
[03:52.75] Dut dut dut
[03:53.37] Dot Dot sitting
[03:54.18] Dot Dot waiting
[03:55.10] Dot Dot getting fat fat fat
[03:56.30] More yellow
[03:57.53] Dot Dot waiting to go
[03:58.30] Out out out
[03:59.88] No no no George
[04:00.88] Finish the hat finish the hat
[04:03.13] Have to finish the hat first
[04:04.16] Hat hat hat hat
[04:05.20] Hot hot hot it's hot in here...
[04:07.81] Sunday!
[04:18.53] I got till opening night
[04:21.86] But where is the baby?
[04:24.20] Purple and white
[04:25.70] The ****ing baby...
[04:27.12] And red and purple and white
[04:28.58] Carol is the size of a truck...
[04:31.40] Look at this glade, girls
[04:32.64] Call the cab!
[04:33.40] Your cool blue spot
[04:34.93] She's on the floor of the cab
[04:37.40] No, stay in the shade, girls
[04:39.13] Oh God
[04:40.90] It's getting hot
[04:43.32] It's getting-WAH!
[04:47.43] He's blue, he's blue!
[04:52.40] And they're blue...
[04:56.56] And it's warm inside his eyes
[05:01.68] And it's soft inside his eyes
[05:06.96] And you drown inside his eyes
[05:12.30] I could look at him forever...

Pinyin

[00:07.90] White, a blank page or canvas
[00:11.35] The challenge: To bring order to the whole
[00:15.40] Through design,
[00:17.43] Composition,
[00:19.61] Balance,
[00:22.56] Light,
[00:25.85] And harmony.
[00:41.21] " Sunday In The Park With George" by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim.
[00:44.90] And I got to play George. George Seurat.
[00:48.89] But, ahm, I knew nothing about painting.
[00:51.69] So Carol, my wife, and I went off to Paris to the Musé e d' Orsay to find his paintings.
[00:58.86] We turned up at this, eh, amazing building,
[01:02.77] and, eh, we went in and
[01:05.69] Look, if you come from where I come from you would never expect to see these things in a whole lifetime.
[01:10.59] And there they were, things you' d only ever seen in books.
[01:12.90] So... Cezannes and... waterlilies... that Monet fellow...
[01:18.32] And, eh... and Degas... and, eh... ToulouseLautrecs and Van Goghs, and, eh...
[01:26.45] And then there was this one painting... a Seurat...
[01:32.63] Look, it' s made of a sort of dots...
[01:37.50] Thousands, millions of dots...
[01:43.18] And then I got the score!
[01:48.79] Talk about dots...
[01:50.37] Oh, so much to learn!
[01:52.22] And I have to learn to paint
[01:53.33] Paint sticks, paint dogs...
[01:55.35] Sorry, darling?... A baby?!
[01:59.17] When? How long?...
[02:01.99] But I' ve gotta paint hats!
[02:04.17] More red...
[02:06.28] Me, a father...
[02:08.39] And a little more red...
[02:09.85] And I have to improve my articulation
[02:12.32] Blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue
[02:14.60] Even even... Good...
[02:16.59] And I have to rehearse my intonation
[02:19.73] Bumbum bum bumbumbum bumbum bum...
[02:23.54] And then I have to learn to count the beats
[02:25.37] Two three four
[02:26.93] More red... What?
[02:28.93] One two three four
[02:30.55] More blue...
[02:31.37] Two three four five shit...
[02:33.59] ... seven eight
[02:34.28] More beer...
[02:35.50] Two three four five six seven eight
[02:36.46] I don' t care what we call it, I' ve gotta learn this song!
[02:38.41] One two three four five six seven eight
[02:41.40] More light!
[02:41.95] And right down in my guts, looming ever closer...
[02:44.84][04:17.59] Color and light
[02:45.82] ... was opening night
[02:47.97][04:20.37] There' s only color and light
[02:49.40] Stephen Sondheim' s what?
[02:51.68] Yellow and white
[02:53.30] In the building??!
[02:55.00] Just blue and yellow and white
[02:56.38] What if your baby comes on opening night?
[02:59.17] Look at the air, miss
[03:00.98] See what I mean?
[03:03.44] Hello, Stephen. How are you?
[03:05.54] No, look over there, miss
[03:08.11] That' s done with green...
[03:09.96] He hates me... he hates me...
[03:11.93] Conjoined with orange
[03:18.15] I never gonna learn this
[03:19.68] Not in a million years...
[03:20.90] Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit...
[03:23.71] Oh bloody hell...
[03:25.79] Just look at it all, will you...
[03:28.40] Red red red red
[03:29.52][03:31.90] Red red orange
[03:32.61] Orange pick up blue
[03:33.45] Pick up red
[03:34.43] Pick up orange
[03:35.27] From the bluegreen bluegreen bluegreen circle
[03:38.11] On the violet diagonal
[03:39.58] Diagagagonalnalnalnal
[03:42.21] Yellow comma yellow comma
[03:44.21] Numnum num numnumnum numnum num...
[03:47.79] Blue blue blue blue
[03:48.63] Blue still waiting
[03:49.77] Red that perfume
[03:50.62] Blue all night
[03:51.49] Bluegreen the window shut
[03:52.75] Dut dut dut
[03:53.37] Dot Dot sitting
[03:54.18] Dot Dot waiting
[03:55.10] Dot Dot getting fat fat fat
[03:56.30] More yellow
[03:57.53] Dot Dot waiting to go
[03:58.30] Out out out
[03:59.88] No no no George
[04:00.88] Finish the hat finish the hat
[04:03.13] Have to finish the hat first
[04:04.16] Hat hat hat hat
[04:05.20] Hot hot hot it' s hot in here...
[04:07.81] Sunday!
[04:18.53] I got till opening night
[04:21.86] But where is the baby?
[04:24.20] Purple and white
[04:25.70] The ing baby...
[04:27.12] And red and purple and white
[04:28.58] Carol is the size of a truck...
[04:31.40] Look at this glade, girls
[04:32.64] Call the cab!
[04:33.40] Your cool blue spot
[04:34.93] She' s on the floor of the cab
[04:37.40] No, stay in the shade, girls
[04:39.13] Oh God
[04:40.90] It' s getting hot
[04:43.32] It' s gettingWAH!
[04:47.43] He' s blue, he' s blue!
[04:52.40] And they' re blue...
[04:56.56] And it' s warm inside his eyes
[05:01.68] And it' s soft inside his eyes
[05:06.96] And you drown inside his eyes
[05:12.30] I could look at him forever...