Leopards prowl the studios of the Duc de great chateau Where Cocteau's rehearses Beauty's rape Lewis marks his diary with a small white stone As Kuniyoshi prepares to paint
Listen to the shells my darling, you hear is not the sea But whispering, malicious hearts Adults who don't wish to the Duc de Berry's great chateau And the world of childhood and of art
We who paint or photograph to stop your dying in its And fix you in the of spring Can't stop the prattling The rattlesnakes who, rattling, see ugliness in every living See ugliness in every thing
The insolence of little girls in sailor suits Whose faces seem to say more they know Appetites and for the libertine in all of us From the of Kuniyoshi Kaneko
Follow to the studio where Alice Liddell the roles Of tousle-headed naked gypsy The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson from the darkness of his her for himself and for the world
Children by cruel desires, the handiwork of murderers Who hack their little to the bone Somehow to tell the tale, astonishingly fit and well couple in the fabulous chateau
We who paint or photograph to your dying in its path And fix you in the of spring Can't stop the prattling The rattlesnakes who, rattling, see in every living thing In every lovely thing
A looking is not a world A girl is not a girl In games there can be no things In life remain considerate, in art the advocate Why that Pegasus has wings In remain considerate, in art the Devil incarnate Why deny the siren it sings? In games there must be no forbidden
So watch the my darling while the gentlemen go by And mark your with a small white stone Little hearts of marzipan and lacquer work from old In the of Kuniyoshi Kaneko