Western Addiction

They Burned Our Paintings

Western Addiction


Tom: C

D


[Verse]
D
We’re the anticult
D
Atonal radikale
D
Surreal and simplistic, vulgar and sadistic
D
In the motherland
D
Big Dada jazz men
D
Go tell the minister, modern life is sinister
G
Incomprehensible
A             G
No teachers to cure the soul
A                D
Narrow stairs to parade our worth
A
Hung abstract, anything but pure
D
You can burn our paintings
D
We’ll dream a thousand more
D        C               G        F
Each one more subversive than before

D

D
Imperial eagle
D
Drop the hammer and sickle
D
Socialist get realist, all hail degenerates
D
Played cathedral nice
D
Rhinos of Versailles
D
You can tell Joseph, modern life is grotesque
G
We’re reprehensible
G
Violent in color, reek of oil
A            D
The birth of expressionism
A                 F         D
We’re here to smash symbolism
D
You can burn our paintings
D
We’ll dream a thousand more
D              C       G       F
Each one more coercive than before

F

C
I had to lash to something
G                  D
So perverse and so sweet

D

C
Want to know how this turns out
G                       A
Just ask the Romans and Greeks

A

D
You can burn our paintings
D
We’ll dream a thousand more
C             G
Each one more subversive
D
Please don’t burn our paintings

Lovely wretchery
C         G
Forbidden pleasures
D
for all the world to see
D
Come see