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Hello, It’s a Me

SUMMARY:

The incredible story of the world's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa; including some of its famous owners and robbery attempts.

Parody of Todd Rundgren's 'Hello It's Me'

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Hello, it’s a me

The most famousest painting in history.

Ten million see me every year

Not hanging in the loo, but in the Louvre, here.

 

Hello, it’s a me

From the other side of that you see.

I’m Lisa Gherardini who posed for this

My husband wants a portrait of his missus.

 

I modelled at the start then the story gets shady

Under her is painted another Mona lady.

 

Is this picture me? Or someone like me?

Is this Lisa me-sa? It’s a mystery.

Though my husband was the owner

Was there another Mona? No-one knew the real history.

 

Hello, it’s me.

I’m the one they call ‘The Code’ da Vinci.

Not just an artist, I’m a procrastinator

If you don’t know what that means then I will tell you later.

 

Hello, Raphael.

My student’s got to copy this and make a sale.

This painting is incredibly profound.

Please stop, those eyes are following me around.

 

Her enigmatic smile, a visual delight.

You think so? Nah, still not quite right.

 

Picture’s not good enough for someone like me

For fifteen years those hands have been bothering me.

Though my legacy will last, I may be great but I’m not fast

And you wonder why I lived in poverty.

 

Patience, one day this great work of art

Will hang in the bedroom of Bonaparte.

Most expensive pic of all, you’d better believe it

People gonna vandalise, forge and steal it.

 

If I wanted it back what must I bid?

I’m said to be worth one-and-a-half-billion quid.

 

Then I was stolen ‘cos someone liked me

That was when I gained notoriety.

Peaceful life ain’t - been attacked by red paint

Now bullet proof glass protects me.

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