Song Description
man walks into an art gallery... falls obsessively in love
| Song Length |
4:15 |
Genre |
Pop - General |
Lyrics
First time I saw you
You were floating thru the gallery to the Raphael room
I followed close behind you past the Da Vinci Cartoon
Couldn?t take my eyes off you as we passed the Unknown Saint
You made the Mona Lisa look like canvas and paint
You?re a vision, you?re a Turner sunrise
A living masterpiece, Constable skies
And I could stand and look at you for days and days and days
And I would give up everything to catch you in my gaze
Next time I saw you
You were like Manet?s Olympia, framed by my bed
Strictly for private viewing, on a sheet of deepest red
To complement the texture of you artful milky thighs
Distract the viewer from the glazed look in your eyes
You?re a vision, you?re a Vincent cornfield
But now I?ve spoiled the masterpiece, and all the paint has peeled
Pinned down the butterfly with a philistine knife
And all that I have left to me?s still life, still life, still life
Last time I saw you
You were leaving by the window like Icarus in flight
From my Dutch interior to a place of blazing light
And the portrait I had of Romantic obsession
Is nothing more now than an artist?s impression
You?re a vision, you?re my Leonardo
A living masterpiece, Caravaggio
And I still stand and look at you for days and days and days
And I will always have you now forever in my gaze