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