LYRICS:

(Renaissance)

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Every now and then I try to picture the art

In the Dark Ages before changes began

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(Renaissance)

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Nobody was listening to new ideas

Said they like things just as they stand

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(Renaissance)

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But studying the classics from Rome and Greece

Gave us thoughts we'd not had before

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(Renaissance)

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An explosion of creation; music,

Sculpture in the nude, paintings and more

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(Renaissance art guys)

Every day is like a brand-new start

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(Renaissance art guys)

Every day we revolutionise art

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(Renaissance)

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Everyone knows that Florence is the place

Arty-farty types really should be

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(Renaissance)

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Masaccio, Donatello, true artists created visions

So lifelike that they looked real

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(Renaissance)

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The Medicis have the wonga

The Pope pays us to bling the Vatican

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Raphael masters oil

Botticelli's Venus is careful to cover all the bums

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(Renaissance art guys)

Every day is like a brand-new start

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(Renaissance art guys)

Fighting with our brushes to make art

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And now you all can see

My technique is getting better

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And if out patrons pay their fee

Our legacy will last forever

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Study anatomy to make the right body

Cos before they looked shoddy

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Together, light and dark, make these people look 3D

Cos we all have shadows on us, look at me (no, look at me!)

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Perspective gives us depth, our backgrounds come alive

We study nature and oil paint brings it to life

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I really think this will last, history will remember my art

No, history will remember my art

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Once upon a time your paintings moved me to tears

(Mm. Yours always just made me laugh)

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What can we say?

We totally eclipsed the old art

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Sistine Chapel, The Mona Lisa

Totally eclipsed the old art

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Statue of David, sketch of an helicopter

Totally eclipsed the old art.

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