Michael Angelo showed me a picture
I told him my friends were all fans
The real thing Da Vinci, he told me
But the blue bits came off in my hands
Now the teacher
Won't let us choose
If art tries to win, it will lose
And I'm standing on the corner
With the renaissance blues
I got a friend there
He's called Valentino
He chewed it up, yeah
He spit 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 lose
But old stuff can never be news
And I'm standing on the corner
With the renaissance blues
Well, yeah, yeah
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 they told you
Steal their shoes
While they sleep in your bed
Now Michael Angelo
He needed to go straight
And Valentino
He couldn't care less
And truth needed lies
Just to be here
And art needed truth to confess
Well, they dream while you're stealing their shoes
Valentino leaves them looking for clues
Now we're standing on the corner
With the renaissance blues
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
With the renaissance blues
Well
Yeah, yeah, yeah