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''Well, there are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature'' - Stephen Stills

Mona Lisa
(words and music: Desmarais-Racine)

First time I did saw her
T'was in military school
She had me at Blues Brothers
But I played it way too cool

Then came more occasions
And I didn't know my stuff
If I hadn't been such a stoner
It would have been less rough

There was also a dude
Who wanted to be king
He challenged everybody
To step right in the ring

I was in a good spot
But I didn't had the balls
So he got the first shot
And I let him took the fall

Once it was over
I ineptly made my move
Mona Lisa and me
Seemed to fit the groove

I wasn't writing
But at least I was in love
With a lady so stunning
And gentle like a dove

The image that I gave her
Was incredibly undone
Focusing completely
On being such a bum

I wanted to be clean
And forget about the rest
But I wanted to be seen
With her nonetheless

And so I did my shout
Over my roof and walls
The romance of my life-time
Before the curtain call

This marvelous month of tripping
It came and went so fast
By the end of April
She was back into class

And the crash of the tensions
It happened in a bar
I heard all the reasons
Why it didn't go that far

Like a cat hit by a Volvo
I cried out in public
Bleeding all over the sidewalk
While my friends played music

By then in rehearsals
It got too much weird
She left after two weeks
And I just grew a beard

This atrocious month of grieving
It really last a while
Almost through the summer
I was wondering why

When I finally met Da Vinci
I ask him why the hell?
Mona Lisa was very friendly
But by then end, you couldn't tell

He thought about it a moment
Then he made his reply:
''The muse gave you your stories,
Now you must let her fly.''

Décembre 2012

credits

from Serious Music From The Sewers, released December 25, 2012

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