The Artist
Album: Yourself United
By: The Agony Family
By: The Agony Family
Duration
4:24
Genres
Description
An in-your-face genre-melding rock song featuring dueling male vocals, piano, guitars, concert orchestration, and a massive Buckethead-esque synth solo. Lyrics are from the point of view of a delusional artist who believes that his ability to create makes him a god.
Lyrics
The place is up in fire It’s getting hard to breathe in here It’s like I lived my whole life out in December, it’s been cold long as I can remember We had a disagreement They said “we live forever here” I told them “we’re all terminal patients living in a world of self medication” I, I’m an artist I am a god It’s lonely at the top It’s a never ending cycle I’m afraid I’ve always been waiting for my only enemy to get tired and give in I don’t want to hear my story Cause for now I can pretend that I play a different character and I don’t die at the end (They want me to come back) (To recreate the world for them) (But I’ve already built my masterpiece, and it’s already fallen down on me) (x2) I am an artist, I am a god It’s lonely at the top I know the clever are only sorry when they mourn but all we ever are is sorry we were born I’m not crazy (x4) I’m just hangin’ around playing the violin with a chainsaw, what’s the problem? Not like you’ve never seen someone playing the piano with a jackhammer, what’s the matter? I get funny looks sometimes just cause I bang the drums with a shovel, what’s the trouble? I’ve been here even though I don’t fit in, where have you been? (x2)
