Million Dollar Houses (The Painter)

Million Dollar Houses (The Painter) is the eleventh song on Selfish Machines, the second Pierce the Veil album.

Description
Fuentes wrote "Million Dollar Houses (The Painter)" as "a gift to my parents". Fuentes' father worked as a painting contractor, barely earning, throughout his life, enough money to keep the family going and being forced to sell his home. The song "strongly express[es] my hatred for money and the way it sometimes fucks with people's lives and families."

Lyrics
So what if I was just a painter

painting houses on the rich blue coast? Would you ever try to leave me for somebody who deserves you most? 'Cause darling I am just a painter. I'm painting houses for the rich old folks. I'm gonna make a million dollars, 'cause nobody's gonna steal you, no, For diamonds and gold. For diamonds and gold.

'Cause I've broken bones for you, and for you only. I make money but we just can't keep this home. Give me your heart and your hand and we can run! We can run, we can run baby, run now. We can run baby, run.

She's like a bullet through an ocean, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I still remember how you moved so slow. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">You tried to kill me with a shotgun. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Bang! Now we're even <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">We don't stop till someone's bleeding. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">(We don't stop till someone's bleeding)

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">'Cause I've broken bones for you, and for you only. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I make money but we just can't keep this home. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Give me your heart and your hand and we can run! <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">We can run, we can run baby, run now. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">We can run baby, run baby, you're my hope.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Permanently yours. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Sometimes the moon looks brighter than the sun. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">As times like this run up my wrist, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">she hates all of the guts and blood. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Splash around with me while we move like flames on burning sheets. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">And your doctor won't stop calling me her medication.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">But baby no, sometimes things don't work out the way we planned. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">To live is just to fall asleep, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">to die is to awaken.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Maybe we're meant to lose the ones we love, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">but I'll fight for you till then. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">And if they stole you from me, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">on my arm there's a tattoo of your name. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I've broken bones for you, and for you only. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I make money, but fuck money we want love. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Give me your heart and your hand and we can run!

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Selfish Machines

 * 1) Besitos
 * 2) Southern Constellations
 * 3) The Boy Who Could Fly
 * 4) Caraphernelia
 * 5) Fast Times at Clairemont High
 * 6) The New National Anthem
 * 7) Bulletproof Love
 * 8) Stay Away from My Friends
 * 9) I Don't Care If You're Contagious
 * 10) Disasterology
 * 11) Million Dollar Houses (The Painter)
 * 12) The Sky Under the Sea