Quilts, Coats, and Colors Songtext

von John Lucas

I want to live simply like my father
He never has much been for colors
But I think
That his colors are his children

And I want to live fearlessly
Believing nothing could ever hurt me
If I'd just love
If I'd just love relentlessly

And I don't have an extravagant plan
For who I'll be when I'm an older man
But the best adventures
Follow no maps

And when I was born a quilt was sewn
By the one who held my father
Before he had grown
Before he'd met my mother

And more were made as our family grew
A name is just a name
But it holds me to you
For there's love in every letter

And my name says that I am light
And I want to learn how to fight
For the ones
This dark world has barred from hope

And I want to see with clear eyes
To see beauty underneath
Every painful disguise
I want the bravery to dream

But it's not the coat that makes the dreamer
Nor the stitches of a quilt
It's not the colors that you wear, son
It's the colors that you've spilled

When you fight
When you fight
When you fight
Fight for love