
Date of issue: 25.06.2009
Record label: Nonesuch
Song language: English
Talent |
When I was a tyke |
I said, «What I like |
Is art |
I know I’m a boy |
But what I enjoy |
Is art.» |
Looking at paintings, going to plays |
Music and books informing my days |
Filling my mind |
Flooding my heart |
With art! |
I had this dream of becoming an artist |
A painter, a poet, who knows? |
I had a nice little talent for drawing |
And a natural feeling for prose |
I even began to compose |
So many talents |
Wasn’t I blessed? |
All of them good |
A few of them better |
None of them best |
Just enough talent |
To know that I hadn’t the talent |
So I put my dream |
And my self-esteem |
To rest |
That must have been difficult |
Yes. |
But it didn’t matter. |
I merely had to find out what I was meant to be |
(sung) |
I couldn’t decide |
Then one day I spied |
Palm Beach |
A speck on the map |
No more than a gap |
Palm beach |
Jungle and seashore, muddy and raw |
But in a flash I suddenly saw |
What it would take |
What I could make |
Palm Beach! |
I had this dream of a city of artists |
Versailles by the Florida sea |
A sort of world congregation of artists |
All encouraged to set themselves free |
I knew what I wanted to be! |
I’d be their host and supporter |
The patron saint |
Of the things that they’d write |
And compose and paint |
I shall wander among them with lavish praise |
As they carve their statues |
Construct their plays |
Design their buildings |
Recite their rhymes |
Making modern art |
Fit for modern times! |
So many talents |
Gathered en masse! |
Painters and poets |
Artists and dreamers |
Watered like grass |
And if the talent I have |
Is for nurturing talent |
Then succeed or fail |
I will see they sail |
First class |
And my father can go stick it up his ass! |
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