"if something could be permanent then nothing could be beautiful again" lyrics

I try to paint a picture
Before it blows away
I'll get the pigments right
In certain shades of gray
I'll try to hold a light
To what the Romans made
But stone's more permanent
Than any word I'll say

Sensations abrasive
And I don't like the pain
Part of an incarnation
That fractals all the same
My hands are blister packed
Like an airport medication
Trying not to cave but
You're so god damn
Persuasive

If something could be permanent
Then nothing could be beautiful again

If anything's worth dying for
I think I'll probably know when it is

If something could be permanent
Then nothing could be beautiful again

If anything's worth dying for
I think I'll probably know when it is