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A Painter At Heart

from Artist Proof by À la Poupée & the Chine-Collés

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Come gather 'round people I'll tell you a tale
A tale of a man as thin as a rail
A printer at trade and a painter at heart
He grew tired and weary of making art

He was very well read in modern theory
His head engulfed in philosophy
Making prints just wasn't enough
So he threw down his v-gouge and picked up a brush

He says he's from nowhere in most ways that's true
He comes from the dust like most of us do
Though reluctant to speak of his lifelong ambitions
He tells of his past and major transitions

To see the world with eyes not our own
His philosophy of philosophy he owes to Foucault
And he practiced this practice in his everyday life
When he picked up the palette instead of the knife

Cause before he could even get to work he dealt with the stresses
Of spending most of his time cleaning other people's messes
Now he sits and he ponders reading Derrida and Barthes
Digesting their philosophies while he works on his art
People crowd round to see him as he tells of how
He used to make prints but he's a painter now

The towers of matrices he left in his wake
From the plains of Oklahoma to the Northeastern States
Stand in silence imbued with the knowledge
That he's left them behind just as he left college
With a brush in his hand that once held a brayer
The towers are silent they haven't a prayer

Come gather round people I'll tell you a tale
The tale of a man as thin as a rail
A printer at trade and a painter at heart
He grew tired and weary of making art

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from Artist Proof, released September 3, 2013

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