Painted light in the darkness, chiaroscuro
 Imagine we were a painting
 A woman and a man,
 Two lovers on a canvas
 On is white, one is black.

 Darkness and light will be married tonight in chiaroscuro
 Your body on mine - two colors combined in chiaroscuro

 Vermeer and Velazquez, Rembrandt and Rousseau
 Painted perfect union, chiaroscuro
 The man and the woman
 The knife and the spoon
 The xylem and the phloem
 The sun and the moon

 Chorus

 How we lived a secret life from racist eyes
 You said I couldn't understand you anyway I tried

 But in this moment together, in our secret unity
 Our skins become the still life, our souls epiphany