Renaissance blues lyrics

Michelangelo showed me a picture-

I told him: “My friends, we all fans”

The real thing “Da Vinci” he told me

But the blue bits came off in my hands.

Now teachers want let us choose,

But if art tries to win- it will lose-

And I’m standing on the corner

With renaissance blues.

I got a friend, he’s called Valentino-

He chewed up and spat it out.

He rolled it around in the brown dirt

He said: I’ll show you what renaissance is really all about.

He says there ain’t nothing to loose

But those could never be news-

And I’m standing on the corner

With renaissance blues.

You got to dig till you can’t see the blue sky

You got to run till there’s nothing ahead

You got to tear up everything that еhey told you

Steal their shoes while they sleep in your bed.

Now Michelangelo, he needed to go straight

Valentino, he couldn’t care less

Truth needed lies, just to be here

And art needed truth to confess.

While you dream while he’s stealing your shoes

Valentino leaves them looking for clues

And I’m standing on the corner with

Those renaissance blues.

• Artist:Chris Rea
• Album:'THE RETURN OF THE FABULOUS HOFNER BLUENOTES' -2008