When I Paint My Masterpiece - Grateful Dead

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