Mark Rothko Song letra

The blue it speaks so full
It's like the beauty one can barely stand
Or too much things dropped in your hand
And there's a green like the peace
In your heart sometimes
Printed underneath the sheets of ashy snow
And there's a blue like where the urban angels go, very bright
Now the Calder mobile tips a biomorphic sphere
Then it swings its dangling pieces
round to other paintings here

Your behavior is so male
It's like you can't explain yourself to me
I think I'll ask Renoir to tea
For his flowers are as real as they are all the time
And the sunlight sets the furniture aglow
It's a pleasant time as far as people go, how far do they go?
Well his roses are perfect and his words have no wings
I know what he can give me and I like to know these things

I met her at the funeral
She said I don't know what he meant to me
I just know he affected me
An effect not unlike his art,
I believe

The service starts and we are in the know
He had so much to say but more to show, and ain't that true of life?
So we weep for a person who lived at great cost
Yet we barely knew his powers till we sensed that we had lost

A friend and I in a museum room
She says, "Look at Mark Rothko's side
Did you know about his suicide?
Some folks were born with a foot in the grave, but not me, of course."
And she smiles as if to say we're in the know
Then she names a coffee place where we can go, uptown
Now the painting is desperate, but the crowds wash away
In a crowd of kind pedestrians who've seen enough today.

Dar Williams - Letras

• After All
• All My Heroes Are Dead
• Alleluia
• And A God Descended
• Another Mystery
• Anthem
• Are You Out There
• Arrival
• As Cool As I Am
• Beautiful Enemy
• Better Things
• Blue Light Of The Flame
• Book Of Love
• Bought And Sold
• Buzzer
• Calamity John
• Calling The Moon
• Closer To Me
• College Girl
• Comfortably Numb
• Crystal Creek
• Echoes
• Empire
• End Of The Summer
• Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
• Family
• Farewell To The Old
• Farewell To The Old Me
• February
• Fishing In The Morning
• Flinty Kind Of Woman
• Go To The Woods
• Hudson
• I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything
• I Had No Right
• I Have Been Around The World
• I Have Lost My Dreams
• I Love, I Love (Traveling II)
• I Saw A Bird Fly Away
• I Will Free Myself
• I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono
• I'll Miss You Till I Meet You
• If I Wrote You
• In Love But Not At Peace
• Iowa
• Iowa (Traveling Iii)
• It Happens Every Day
• It's A War In There
• It's Alright
• Liar
• Mark Rothko Song
• Mercy Of The Fallen
• Midnight Radio
• Mortal City
• My Friends
• O Canada Girls
• Party Generation
• Play The Greed
• Playing To The Firmament
• Road Buddy
• So Close To My Heart
• Southern California Wants to Be Western New York
• Spring Street
• Stop Smoking
• Storm King
• Summer Child
• Teen For God
• Teenagers, Kick Our Butts
• Terrarium
• The Babysitter's Here
• The Ballad of Mary Magdalene
• The Beauty Of The Rain
• The Blessings
• The Business Of Things
• The Christians And The Pagans
• The End Of The Summer
• The Great Unknown
• The Light And The Sea
• The Mercy of the Fallen
• The Ocean
• The One Who Knows
• The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co-Ed
• The World's Not Falling Apart
• This Earth
• This Is Not The House That Pain Built
• This Was Pompeii
• Traveling Again
• Two Sides of the River
• We Learned The Sea
• What Do You Hear In These Sounds
• What Do You Love More Than Love
• When I Was A Boy
• When It Gets That Way
• When Sal's Burned Down
• Whispering Pines
• Wilder Than Her
• Write This Number Down
• You Are Everyone
• You Rise And Meet The Day
• You Will Ride With Me Tonight
• You're Aging Well
• Your Fire Your Soul