Songs for Drella Page #3
- Year:
- 1990
- 55 min
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I'm always staring
at someone who hurts
And the one they hurt is me
Faces and names,
to me they're all the same
If I looked like you
and you looked like me
There'd be less trouble you see
I'd disappear into that wall
and never talk
Faces and names
I wish I was a robot or a machine
Without a feeling or a thought
People who want to meet
the name I have
Are always disappointed
when they meet me
Faces and names,
I wish they were the same
Faces and names only
cause problems for me
Faces and names
I'd rather be a hole in the wall
looking out on the other side
I'd rather look and listen
listen and not talk
To faces and names
I had a breakdown when I was a kid
I lost my hair when I was young
If you dress older when you're not
as your really age you look the same
If we all looked the same
we wouldn't play these games
Me dressing for you and
you dressing for me
undressing for me
Faces and names
if they all were the same
You wouldn't be jealous of me
or me jealous of you
Me jealous of you - I'm jealous of you
Your face and your name
IMAGES:
I think images are worth repeating
Images repeated from a painting
Images taken from a painting
project them upon the ceiling
Multiply them with silk screening
See them with a different feeling
Some say images have no feeling,
I think there's a deeper meaning
Mechanical precision
or so it's seeming
Instigates a cooler feeling
I love multiplicity of screenings
Things born anew
display new meanings
I think images are worth repeating
and repeating and repeating
spewing paint without any order
I'm no sphinx,
no mystery enigma
What I paint is very ordinary
I don't think I'm old or modern
I don't think
I think I'm thinking
It doesn't matter
what I'm thinking
It's the images that are worth repeating
If you're looking for a deeper meaning,
I'm as deep as this high ceiling
If you think technique is meaning,
you might find me very simple
You might find that images are boring
Cars and cans and chairs and flowers
You might find me personally boring
Hammer, sickle, Mao Tse Tong
I think that it bears repeating
the images upon the ceiling
and repeating and repeating
SLIP AWAY (A WARNING)
Friends have said to lock the door
and have an open house no more
They said the Factory must change
and slowly slip away
But if I have to live in fear
where will I get my ideas
With all those crazy people gone
will I slowly slip away
Still there's no more Billy Name
and Ondine is not the same
Wonton and the Turtle gone
Slowly slip away
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