Gates - Empty Canvas lyrics

I see myself in you, reflected you try to reproduce what I did you trace my pattern trying to be candid but all that you create is not quite right you draw your hands across an empty canvas your fingers paint a scene so dull and lifeless and all the color worn from me is pointless because all you'll ever be is black and white and I've become your something in a photograph of nothing left hanging in the dark and I am always with you even if you didn't want to you've framed my work of art and even though the negative was cut and replaced I'll develop into what cannot be erased and you'll develop into nothing and your whole life, forever spent to be what hasn't happened yet