
Hold on to Your Vision Songtext
"The hallway.
From outside, an ordinary house. A great house, true - four hundred and eighty
three rooms, each one with its own marble wash basin and douche, bidet as it
may. But inside, and the positions are reversed. A human failing, some say a
disease, but a disease that Sir Francis Dashwood knew, and knew it well.
Upstairs, inside and a revelation. It's a discotheque. No, no, uh.. there are
paintings, real, and look here - a rare seventeenth century masterpiece, and if
I can scrape a little of it off, beneath I can find hidden a fourteenth century
underpiece.
Made entirely of eggshells, this lurid work has caused controversy in the world
no quite possibly make an anthropol, no, uh, I mean an apolog..ph.. It has
enthralled distinguished professors, and in layman's language is "blinking well
baffling".
But to be more obtusely, "buggered if I know." Yes, "buggered if I know." And
that's all we've gleaned so far from experts in fourteenth century painting,
renaissance, greengrocers, and recently revived members of the public.
"Buggered if I know."
Vivian Stanshall, about three o'clock in the morning, Oxfordshire, 1973,
Goodnight."
of embroidery and anthropologicky. No, I'll say it again, anthropolology. Umm..
From outside, an ordinary house. A great house, true - four hundred and eighty
three rooms, each one with its own marble wash basin and douche, bidet as it
may. But inside, and the positions are reversed. A human failing, some say a
disease, but a disease that Sir Francis Dashwood knew, and knew it well.
Upstairs, inside and a revelation. It's a discotheque. No, no, uh.. there are
paintings, real, and look here - a rare seventeenth century masterpiece, and if
I can scrape a little of it off, beneath I can find hidden a fourteenth century
underpiece.
Made entirely of eggshells, this lurid work has caused controversy in the world
no quite possibly make an anthropol, no, uh, I mean an apolog..ph.. It has
enthralled distinguished professors, and in layman's language is "blinking well
baffling".
But to be more obtusely, "buggered if I know." Yes, "buggered if I know." And
that's all we've gleaned so far from experts in fourteenth century painting,
renaissance, greengrocers, and recently revived members of the public.
"Buggered if I know."
Vivian Stanshall, about three o'clock in the morning, Oxfordshire, 1973,
Goodnight."
HOWARD, JAMES NEWTON / WOLINSKI, DAVID / CARTER, KEITHEN KEEAN
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