If a white car gets totally covered in red dust

what colour is that car?

"It's red my lord"

"Paint it white!

It's the only colour in the jar"

If a white car gets totally covered in red dust

what colour would it be?

"It's white my lord I'm fairly sure"

"Then paint it, and you'll see"

If a white car gets totally covered in red dust

what colour is that car?

"It's red where dusty, and where it's clean

the white is shining through

gold and silver emerge from black

so what am I to do?

I heard that when they made it the undercoat was green

but that got covered up with white and red and with what I've just seen

"I think you'll need full pallet as you paint what's in your eye

not what's in the manual or told you by some guy

just wait a bit and watch the light,

"I'm watching....Shit!... it's changed

If I put that down on canvas

they'll think that I'm deranged

No.. just give me four straight colours and I'll mix them as I ought

and give the viewer pleasure from the picture he's just bought

If a white car gets totally covered in red dust

what colour is that car?

There is no car except... compare!

a jar that holds a flower

whose atoms grasp the light and hue

which may last a fleeting hour

Hereby my child I now resign as teacher of this school

enlightened, freed and ....lonely

.....and feeling like a fool

You have broken through, now, a student of esprit

as a prophet, a messenger

go forth; help others see!