《Mark Rothko Song》歌词

[00:00:00] Mark Rothko Song - Dar Williams

[00:00:15] The blue it speaks so full

[00:00:17] It's like the beauty one can barely stand

[00:00:20] Or too much things dropped in your hand

[00:00:24] And there's a green

[00:00:25] Like the peace in your heart sometimes

[00:00:30] Painted underneath the sheets of ashy snow

[00:00:34] And there's a blue like

[00:00:36] Where the urban angels go very bright

[00:00:42] Now the Calder mobile tips a biomorphic sphere

[00:00:49] Then it swings its dangling pieces

[00:00:51] Round to other paintings here

[00:00:58] Your behavior is so male

[00:01:00] It's like you can't explain yourself to me

[00:01:02] I think I'll ask Renoir to tea

[00:01:07] For his flowers are as real as they are all the time

[00:01:13] And the sunlight sets the furniture aglow

[00:01:18] It's a pleasant time as far as people go

[00:01:21] How far do they go

[00:01:25] Well his roses are perfect and his words have no wings

[00:01:32] I know what he can give me and

[00:01:34] I like to know these things

[00:01:54] I met her at the funeral

[00:01:56] She said "I don't know what he meant to me

[00:01:59] I just know he affected me

[00:02:02] An effect not unlike his art I believe"

[00:02:09] The service starts and we are in the know

[00:02:14] He had so much to say but more

[00:02:16] To show and ain't that true of life

[00:02:20] So we weep for a person who lived at great cost

[00:02:27] Yet we barely knew his powers

[00:02:29] 'Til we sensed that we had lost

[00:02:39] A friend and I in a museum room

[00:02:41] She says "Look at Mark Rothko's side

[00:02:43] Did you know about his suicide "

[00:02:47] Some folks were born with a foot

[00:02:50] In the grave but not me of course

[00:02:55] And she smiles as if to say we're in the know

[00:02:59] Then she names a coffee place where we can go uptown

[00:03:06] Now the painting is desperate but the crowds wash away

[00:03:13] In a world of kind pedestrians who've seen enough today