They Burned Our Paintings

D D We’re the anticult D Atonal radikale D Surreal and simplistic, vulgar and sadistic D In the motherland D Big Dada jazz men D Go tell the minister, modern life is sinister G Incomprehensible A G No teachers to cure the soul A D Narrow stairs to parade our worth A Hung abstract, anything but pure D You can burn our paintings D We’ll dream a thousand more D C G F Each one more subversive than before D D Imperial eagle D Drop the hammer and sickle D Socialist get realist, all hail degenerates D Played cathedral nice D Rhinos of Versailles D You can tell Joseph, modern life is grotesque G We’re reprehensible G Violent in color, reek of oil A D The birth of expressionism A F D We’re here to smash symbolism D You can burn our paintings D We’ll dream a thousand more D C G F Each one more coercive than before F C I had to lash to something G D So perverse and so sweet D C Want to know how this turns out G A Just ask the Romans and Greeks A D You can burn our paintings D We’ll dream a thousand more C G Each one more subversive D Please don’t burn our paintings Lovely wretchery C G Forbidden pleasures D for all the world to see D Come see C G C