say you don't mean

Singer:paul brady

you say matisse and picasso scanned the montparnasse sky

they envied samson in gaza his blind all-seeing eye

not to mention his outrageous hair

you say no decent painter will set a thing down straight

only a breaker of boundaries may be truly great

think rimbaud

think baudelaire

you say that i've misread the venting of your spleen

all the terrible things you've said

the horrible things you've done

haw haw haw haw haw!

next up james joyce and sam beckett

they scanned the sandymount sky

all they saw was small potatoes they'd bigger fish to fry

ain't it always some revolt?

you say a decent writer always tells it slant

i should take my need for order down to the assembly plant

think henry ford and samuel colt

you say i've jumped the gun. by raising the umpteen

terrible things you've said

all the horrible things you've done

haw haw haw haw haw!

yeah! yeah! yeah! yeah!

a renewal slip from time magazine

on which you scrawled try not to cling"

Lyric Context: say you don't mean - paul brady