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Date of issue: 18.10.2010
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Comedy Central
Song language: English
ART IS DEAD |
Art is dead |
Art is dead |
Art is dead |
Art is dead |
Entertainers like to seem complicated |
But we’re not complicated |
I can explain it pretty easily |
Have you ever been to a birthday |
Party for children? |
And one of the children |
Won’t stop screaming |
'Cause he’s just a little |
Attention attractor |
When he grows up |
To be a comic or actor |
He’ll be rewarded |
For never maturing |
For never under- |
Standing or learning |
That every day |
Can’t be about him |
There’s other people |
You selfish asshole |
I must be psychotic |
I must be demented |
To think that I’m worthy |
Of all this attention |
Of all of this money, you worked really hard for |
I slept in late while you worked at the drug store |
My drug’s attention, I am an addict |
But I get paid to indulge in my habit |
It’s all an illusion, I’m wearing make-up, I’m wearing make-up |
Make-up, make-up, make-up, make… |
Art is dead |
So people think you’re funny, how do we get those people’s money |
I said art is dead |
We’re rolling in dough, while Carlin rolls in his grave |
His grave, his grave |
The show has got a budget |
The show has got a budget |
And all the poor people way more deserving of the money |
Won’t budge it |
'Cause I wanted my name in lights |
When I could have fed a family of four |
For forty fucking fortnights |
Forty fucking fortnights |
I am an artist, please God forgive me |
I am an artist, please don’t revere me |
I am an artist, please don’t respect me |
I am an artist, you’re free to correct me |
A self-centered artist |
Self-obsessed artist |
I am an artist |
I am an artist |
But I’m just a kid |
I’m just a kid |
I’m just a kid |
Kid |
And maybe I’ll grow out of it |