Smeared Canvas (Extended Lyrics) - Splatoon 3: GRAND FESTIVAL

F**k it, we bowl(ing)

Love this beautiful rendition of Smeared Canvas, and I had fun with the lyrics. It felt very uplifting to work on these songs, and I hope you’ll find some hope in them too.

Team Past Playlist:    • Team Past Lyrics  
Team Present Playlist:    • Team Present Lyrics  
Team Future Playlist:    • Team Future Lyrics  

Lyrics:
Split up, running through the alley
This might be our final strike

They may find us, but we will stand strong
Fighting for our place…

Split up, they found out our home base
Running with nowhere to hide

We’ve no place in this society
But we won’t go down easy…

They say we’re just a bunch of splotches on their score…
We’re just a smear on the canvas-
We’re a red card player that they just don’t need!

Heed it, we’re the ones who don’t
belong here cause they say we don’t

Why do they choose to or to not spare?
Let the colors bleed!

Heed it! Take these labels, for we’re
prideful of the people we are!

We’ll write our names in history
We won’t leave this canvas blank…

Oh, rising higher, we soar high above their views…
Watch the colors mix into an endless, shining palette of chaos and freedom…
We are the ones who decide our future, not you or the world…

Fight back,
We won’t be pushed into a checkmate,
These colors won’t dim…

You won’t stop the fuel that is our hope,
Fighting to belong…

Fight back,
Even when we’re struck out,
We won’t be a pawn to them…

We won’t be just a footnote in the book,
We’ll rewrite our fate…

The score’s not yet settled, we’ll make our comeback here!
(La! La la la la la! La la! La la la!)
Our last-ditch effort to break the tie that holds us back, we’ll fight!
(La! La la la! La la la! We’ll fight!)

Mourn them,
Those benched and fallen, we’ll
Fight in their names’ honor…

We’ll create a better tomorrow
Fighting for their place…

Get up,
Take your number once more,
Don’t give up, for you and your love!

We’ll fight to color our future,
The story of our canvas…

La la la la! La la la la la!
La! La la la la! La la la!
La! La la la la! La la la la la!
La! La! La la la la la la… La la la…!

La la la la! La la la la la!
La! La la la la! La la la!
La la la la! La! La la la!
La la! La la la!

Oh…! Fighting for our place…!
This canvas smeared with our stories…!
They can’t wash them away… our hope will last…