Key: G
Introduction:
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My art school babe with your palette-knives and brushes
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Painted face, Egyptian eyebrows and bright red lips
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Pale white make-up, tight black skirts like Juliette Greco
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And there's me quoting pretentious chat up lines
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From Marcel Proust, Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre
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Sitting by a gasfire in a drafty bedsit
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The art school babe quotes William Blake and she rolls a joint
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And I think "Oh oh, I've scored", start to make myself at home
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But the room starts moving as she starts to get me stoned
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I close my eyes and give in, the room goes in a spin
E RIFF 2
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I grovel on the floor, I think ha ha ha "Yeah I think I can make her"
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Then I wake up and realize I've been kissing the refrigerator
Art school chaps with creative grand illusions
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And she says to me: "Arty farty, you'll never fool your Auntie
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Arty farty, I try to throw a party
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To impress my peers I struck a creative stance
Art school cat, ah, I was really on a mission
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For my art school babe