Leopards prowl the studios of the Duc de Berry's chateau Cocteau's beast rehearses Beauty's rape Lewis marks his diary with a small white stone As Kaneko prepares to paint
Listen to the shells my darling, you hear is not the sea But whispering, malicious human Adults who don't to know the Duc de Berry's great chateau And the world of childhood and of art
We who paint or photograph to your dying in its path And fix you in the permanence of Can't stop the prattlers The rattlesnakes who, rattling, see ugliness in every thing See ugliness in every thing
The calculated insolence of little in sailor suits Whose faces seem to say than they know Appetites and for the libertine in all of us From the cabinet of Kuniyoshi
Follow to the studio where Liddell plays 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 torn by desires, the handiwork of murderers Who hack their bodies to the bone Somehow to tell the tale, astonishingly fit and well They couple in the fabulous
We who or photograph to stop your dying in its path And fix you in the of spring Can't the prattlers prattling The rattlesnakes who, rattling, see ugliness in every living In every lovely living
A looking is not a world A painted is not a girl In there can be no forbidden things In life remain considerate, in art the Devil's Why deny Pegasus has wings In life remain considerate, in art the incarnate Why the siren when it sings? In games must be no forbidden things
So the wall my darling while the gentlemen go by And mark your diary with a small stone Little hearts of marzipan and lacquer work old Japan In the cabinet of Kuniyoshi