LOUVRE
I got my painting case babe
here I go
to place my masterpiece
above Michelangelo
I’d start with a picture of you but
I don’t like your ear
come closer to me now
I’m full of ideas
Oh you look so tastefully --
(lemme show you what Van Gogh
learnt from me)
Creativity aflame, never felt
this way before
”That’s for fighting
that’s for fun
that’s my brush
n’ that’s my sword”
Guernica’s gonna look
like a joke
when I finish this
and every Bottifuckingcelli
will be sold for less
but keep your Gauguin
off my back
You don’t want to lose Lautrec
mo mo mo mo mo mo mo
mo mo mo mo mo mo mo
Wow!
Edward munching
bubblegum in hell
Lemme put my Rodin
in your Claudel
You never saw the devil -
I met him once
he said “Son, gimme gimme
a new Renaissance”
Let’s do it together babe,
what d’you think
Get your modern hands off my
Mona Lisa
mo mo mo mo mo mo mo
mo mo mo mo mo mo mo
Wow!
^!!!^
BRACADABRO
About to give himself the KO
and splat his bones
in the avenue below
he glanced over his shoulder
to Jesus on the wall
“Come here, little son”, Jesus said,
“Do you see my holy toenails?
Last time they’ve been trimmed
it was two thousand years ago
and now the time has come”
(I tell you, the time has come)
He stood shivering by the shelf
automatically crossing himself
(his eyes were jew, but the right hand
was a catholic maid)
He got the clipper and knelt
before Christ
and begged forgiveness
and started to cry
“Ok, but do it quick
‘cause tonight I have a date”
^!!!^
THE DEVIL IS A PREACHER
(chorus:)
God’s out of fashion
God’s out of fashion
Come on
God’s out of fashion
God’s out of fashion
Come on
If you don’t mind sweety
I don’t mind sweety
Come on
My mom used to show me
how life was good
But she couldn’t do it for long
‘Cause life’s very short
C’est la droit, c’est la mort
One day you end up
singin’ alone
In truth you know how it goes babe
In the heart you know who rules
the world
In truth we had the same teacher
The devil is a preacher
And everybody listen to his word
My friends they used to show me
how life was good
But they couldn’t do it for long
‘cause life’s very fast and friends
they don’t last
One day you end up singin’ alone
In truth you know how it goes babe
In the heart you know who rules
the world
In truth we had the same teacher
The devil is a preacher
And everybody listen to his word
(repeat chorus)
My girl she used to show me
how life was good
But she couldn’t do it for long
‘cause love is a dream and I
woke up in a scream
One day you end up
singin’ alone
In truth you know how it goes babe
In the heart you know who rules
the world
In truth you know how it goes
The devil is a preacher
And everybody listen to his word
^!!!^
M.I.
Am I really something good
Am I really something good
Am I really something good
Am I really something good
Am I really something
Could I be something good
Are you really in the mood
Would you save me if you could
Are you diggin’ for your gold
Until the spring you’re gonna mold
Am I really something good
Am I really really good
Am I really something
Could I be something good
^!!!^
GOTHAM BEGGARS SYNDICATE
Start spreading the news
I’m gonna do that with my fellas around
I’m gonna do that with my fellas around
I’m gonna hit the big town
With my ugliest frown
Some have food, some have teeth
Some have food and teeth
And a bed and a wife
And a life and a job
And a noisy hotrod
And a bank account full of reasons
To be afraid of the dark
Some have a bench in the park
You’re a cat in the kitchen
I’m a rat in the store
There’s no one around anyway
God gave us this city on a trash can lid
But tonight we’ll have a top-notch feast
We’re the Beggars Syndicate
Gimme room, gimme gimme room
Gimme room, gimme gimme room
Gimme room, gimme gimme room
^!!!^
I WANNA BE AN OLD BITCH
Snow slammin’ in
Snow slammin’ in
The rackets and their jackets
The long Halloween
Every boy and every girl’s a shooting star
I’d be home but they’ve created the bars
And I gotta tell you that I’m
So self-destroyed
Cloistered by numbers
Six six six, beast of apocalypse, son
I wanna be an old bitch
In four
three two one
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GRAVEYARD POLKA
There’s no mercy for a man and his
weepings
But this one prefers it this way
So I can be truthful and jerky
And lustfully save my good feelings
For a better race
Girls are senseless versions of
your mother
You try to go back home all of your life
The perfume, the costume
He dances to her tune
And dancing one more has lost
his mind
She didn’t notice my love as we
kept on
Descending to town
I was so full of love but we kept on
Descending to town
Descending to town
When you’re a crowd of demons
All you know is a demon love
The most dangerous thing
in this world of damnation
Is the heart of a girl
I see one million graves
with one million heartbroken
fellas
She didn’t notice my love as we
kept on
Descending to town
Descending to town
I was drippin’ with love but we
kept on
Descending to town
Descending to town
When you’re a crowd of demons
You know this demon love
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
ché la diritta via era smarrita
Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura
esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
che nel pensier rinova la paura!
Tant'è amara che poco è più morte;
ma per trattar del ben ch'i' vi trovai,
dirò de l'altre cose ch'i' v'ho scorte
Io non so ben ridir com'i' v'intrai…
^!!!^
LET’S GET DRUNK TOGETHER
I wanna tear your
self-preservation apart
You gotta be tired of being
so clean and so smart
Why to risk your heart and get
outta the road?
Oh Just because I say so
I say so
I say so
I know you’d like to sign your name
In the pretty book of welfare
But I don’t give a shit for my share
We could be a pair
Oh trust me ‘cause I say so
I say so
I say so
Let’s get drunk together
Show me what you got
Let’s get drunk together
Stupid from the start
Let’s get drunk together
Dance on the grave of art
We’re all each other’s
hallucinations
^!!!^
SAINT OF KILLERS
A ray of light on your memory
will show you
You’re not the kind of creature
they think you are
When you pass through
some darkness
You leave youth behind you
Like a serpent gets rid
of its bark
Down with joy under consent
of nature
Up with your duties,
no more time for cold feet
There’s no other truth
but your own
You’re full of an
irrational ache to be
The haunting that rides
the twilight
The whispering undead spitfire
Something more
truthfully heartless
Than people’s half-life
emptiness
And if one day a new chance
you receive
Then you could waste it
just the way they did
^!!!^
NEXT TIME YOU RIDE
Next time you ride
remember me
and my ugly smile
desperately
Next time you ride
The ghost towns
where life has ended
the acid rain
that calls your name
Next time you ride
Johnny...
Johnny...
Johnny...
Johnny...
^!!!^
EVERYBODY WERE STONED
I took my baby
to the hospital ‘cause
she ate up so many balls
she had forgotten who I was
The nurse told me “baby
don’t you worry ‘bout her
Then shoved a spike
into her own arm
and fell down limp on the floor
I called my buddy and said
“Oh man I need some help”
But he was so drunk
he couldn’t stop laughing, oh hell
I got in the cab and said
“Let’s get away from here”
But the driver couldn’t drive
‘cause he was all
soaked up in beer
Everybody were
Everybody were stoned
I got to my granny’s house and
I rang her bell and she took me in
And I asked her for some water
but she said” No way, dear –
You need some heroin”
I got in the church and said
“Oh Lord take me back!”
but all the congregation
was smoking crack
Everybody were
Everybody were stoned
Stoned
Stoned
Stoned
^!!!^
SPRAWL
She broke into a fit of laughter
Then held my neck and
swallowed my tongue
The sky was red in the
evening after
When I woke up and
left her alone
And I descended through
hills and alleys
And from a shadow that
folded the daylight
A shiny shape
stabbed me in the belly
Then took my money
and left me to die
I had a dream of
mysterious madness
She sang a song
in the ear of someone
She’s gathering
cybernetic lovers
She likes to kill
She’s so wickedly fun
Right and wrong
are closer bottles
You cannot hit one
without shattering both
Life doesn’t come
in single colors
I’ve always been true
and I’ve always been wrong
I slipped back through
those hills and alleys
I left my corpse
under coroner’s gaze
I’ve found her lying
beside her new mate
I saw my blood on his
shoes and his face
And from my dream
of mysterious madness
She broke into a fit of laughter
She broke into a fit of laughter
She broke into a fit of laughter
^!!!^