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She Likes Art
Verse 1:
I don't know that much about Art,
But I know what I like.
I like riding around with Art
On the back of his motorbike.
He is sweet but he is vain
And he don't know it yet,
But I could leave him eating dust
If I got out my Corvette.
Verse 2:
I don't know that much about Art,
But I like what I see.
I see Art don't have a clue 'bout
What to make of me --
Whether I'm an abstract girl
Or a surrealistic one --
I never knew that ignorance
Could be such bloody fun.
Break:
But I don't know, so I'll go slow,
I don't know, so I'll go slow,
I don't know, so I'll go slow,
But I don't want to go slow.
Verse 3:
I don't know that much about Art,
But I know what I'll do:
I'll start messing around with Art
The way I messed with you,
The way I messed with Paul Gauguin
And Vincent J.* Van Gogh,
And after that it will not matter
What the hell I know.
* Van Gogh's middle initial was actually "W".
-- C. C. Thistlethwaite
She Likes Art © D.M. Wideman, 1999