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Inspired by my daughter, who made me remember that the world we create at the kitchen table can sometimes be even more rewarding than the one we live in. 

"Crayons"  © 2007 Ellen Tipper

music and lyrics, Ellen Tipper

piano and vocals, Ellen Tipper

guitar, Paul Story

mixed and mastered, Paul Story

If the sky were pink and the earth were yellow

Do you think we would be more mellow?

I don’t know

If we want to change our colors

I think I know a way

My little girl showed me

She showed me just today

She opened her box of crayons

let them fall all around

There was crimson and fuscia and orange,

grape and chocolate brown

She said, Mama, you color the sky

and I will color the ground

As we set to work on our project

you wouldn’t believe what we found

We found purple and green raccoons

and periwinkle panda bears

I don’t know about you,

but I think that it’s looking pretty funky out there

So if you’re in need of a fix

because it’s all become the same

Open a box of crayons

and make some deep purple rain