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neil klein, avery l. ingvarson - empty frames lyrics

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[rembrandt]
st. patrick’s day crowd rolls into town
locals, travelers, 1990, march
the holiday’s in their peripheral
the parade at the forefront

with only two people to stop them, two people
decided their odds were alright
they stole away more than pictures
in eighty one minutes, in one night

but enough about them

the room that we stand in
arranged and commanded
to be perfect, to be idyllic

the dutch room was holding
to golden crown molding
and paintings! – oils and acrylics

but now it holds
empty frames
empty frames
empty frames
empty frames
these empty frames
[tour guide]
let’s move away from that rembrandt portrait. next to the windows, there’s another empty frame. here hung the museum’s lost vermeer painting

[vermeer]
do you know why i have the subjects facing away?

[degas]
the painting’s not there, joey
he had one painting in the museum, and now it’s gone. makes for a weaker connection, you know?

[vermeer]
gone?

[degas]
i’ve been listening to tours
wandering bored through each door
one thought stays behind them

almost 40% of the stolen
came from my hands, wrecking her plans
tell me, they’re going to find them
until then

empty frames
empty frames
empty frames
empty frames
these empty frames
[manet]
not so fast, old man!

[rembrandt]
manet!

[degas]
you’re as charming as ever

[manet]
charm is for the living. the rest of us? the rulеs of the game have changеd. best keep up

[rembrandt]
you don’t relish the chance to live forever?

[manet]
is anyone truly alive?
or all our best spent memories
meant to survive

is memory an element like earth?
a divine captured sign holding
all of our worth

are we just
empty frames
empty frames
empty frames
empty frames
these empty frames

[manet]
vermeer gets it

[vermeer]
i like the reminder. it’s what belle would have wanted

[rembrandt]
from the estate of mrs isabella stewart gardner:

[isabella]
if at any time the trustees shall place for exhibition in the museum any pictures or works of art other than i, isabella stewart gardner, own or have contracted at my death, or if they shall at any time change the general disposition or arrangement of any articles, then i relinquish said works of art to the president and fellows of harvard university

[degas]
meaning?

[isabella]
a house is where you live
a home, a bit more clever
a museum’s in between
it lets me live forever

[artists] [isabella]
empty frames everything must stay
empty frames nothing can change
empty frames always be the same
empty frames my empty frames

- neil klein avery l ingvarson lyrics

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