The Cabinet Of Kuniyoshi Kaneko Lyrics - Momus

Leopards prowl the studios of the Duc de Berry's great chateau 

Where Cocteau's beast rehearses Beauty's rape 

Lewis Carroll marks his diary with a small white stone 

As Kuniyoshi Kaneko prepares to paint 

Listen to the shells my darling, what you hear is not the sea 

But whispering, malicious human hearts 

Adults who don't wish to know the Duc de Berry's great chateau 

And hate the world of childhood and of art 

We who paint or photograph to stop your dying in its path 

And fix you in the permanence of spring 

Can't stop the prattlers prattling 

The rattlesnakes who, rattling, see ugliness in every living thing 

See ugliness in every living thing 

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The calculated insolence of little girls in sailor suits 

Whose faces seem to say more than they know 

Appetites and ornaments for the libertine in all of us 

From the cabinet of Kuniyoshi Kaneko 

Follow to the studio where Alice Liddell plays the roles 

Of tousle-headed naked gypsy girls 

The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson from the darkness of his camera 

Preserves her for himself and for the world 

Children torn by cruel desires, the handiwork of murderers 

Who hack their little bodies to the bone 

Somehow live to tell the tale, astonishingly fit and well 

They couple in the fabulous chateau 

We who paint or photograph to stop your dying in its path 

And fix you in the permanence of spring 

Can't stop the prattlers prattling 

The rattlesnakes who, rattling, see ugliness in every living thing 

In every lovely living thing 

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A looking glass is not a world 

A painted girl is not a girl 

In games there can be no forbidden things 

In life remain considerate, in art the Devil's advocate 

Why deny that Pegasus has wings 

In life remain considerate, in art the Devil incarnate 

Why deny the siren when it sings? 

In games there must be no forbidden things 

So watch the wall my darling while the gentlemen go by 

And mark your diary with a small white stone 

Little hearts of marzipan and lacquer work from old Japan 

In the cabinet of Kuniyoshi Kaneko