Renaissance blues
Michelangelo showed me a picture-I told him: “My friends, we all fans”The real thing “Da Vinci” he told meBut the blue bits came off in my hands.
Now teachers want let us choose,But if art tries to win- it will lose-And I’m standing on the cornerWith renaissance blues.
I got a friend, he’s called Valentino-He chewed up and spat it out.He rolled it around in the brown dirtHe said: I’ll show you what renaissance is really all about.
He says there ain’t nothing to looseBut those could never be news-And I’m standing on the cornerWith renaissance blues.
You got to dig till you can’t see the blue skyYou got to run till there’s nothing aheadYou got to tear up everything that еhey told youSteal their shoes while they sleep in your bed.
Now Michelangelo, he needed to go straightValentino, he couldn’t care lessTruth needed lies, just to be hereAnd art needed truth to confess.
While you dream while he’s stealing your shoesValentino leaves them looking for cluesAnd I’m standing on the corner withThose renaissance blues.