renaissance blues

michael angelo sold me a picture

i told him my friends where all fans

the real thing da vinci he told me

but the blue bits came off in my hands

now the teacher won't let us choose

but if art tries to win

it will lose

and i'm standing on the corner

with renaissance blues

i got a friend there

he's called valentino

he chewed it up and he spit it out

he rolled it around in the brown dirt

he said i'll show you what renaissance is really all about

he says there ain't nothing to lose

but old stuff can never be news

and i'm standing on the corner

with those old renaissance blues

you got to dig till you can't see the blue sky

you got to run till there's nothing ahead

you got to tear up everything that they told you

steal their shoes while they sleep in your bed

now michael angelo

he needed to go straight

valentine

he couldn't care less

truth needed lies

just to be here

and art needed truth to confess

you dream while he's stealing your shoes

valentino leaves them looking for clues

now i'm standing on the corner with

those renaissance blues