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