Dari
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Jonathan Levi
Performer
Mel Marvin
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Jonathan Levi
Songwriter
Mel Marvin
Songwriter
Lirik
Kiss my feet, Botticelli
Lick the sand from the cracks between my toes
Lift me up on a salty clamshell
Isn't that how your painting goes?
Curl my hair, Botticelli
Wrap it red behind my shoulder
Long, long, long, between my thighs
Lying here for centuries
Even now, I hear grown men and schoolboys cry
Crying
Venus
Look at me, Venus
Come to me, Venus, Venus
Why not me?
Just sixteen when I married
Twenty-two when my blood froze and I died
Sealed up in my mausoleum
But you found a way inside
Paint my lips, Botticelli
Paint my gaze just past your shoulder
Far, far, far, beyond reply
Lying here for centuries
Even now, I hear old women and schoolgirls cry
Crying
Venus
Look at me Venus
Come to me, Venus, Venus
Why not me?
You think I need your painting to know that I'm a god?
You think that loves comes easy, with a wink and with a nod?
You think I asked for beauty, this Renaissance façade
When the crowd stares at my nipples like a holy firing squad?
At my feet, Botticelli
Bones and dust beneath the stones, like me
Buried in the same dark chapel
Is that immortality?
Curl my toes, Botticelli
Make me rise out of the ocean
Up, up, upward to the sky
Lying here for centuries
Even now I hear the angels and the guards
And the tourists and the phantoms of forgotten artists cry
Crying
Venus
Look at me, Venus
Come to me, Venus, Venus
Why not me?
Venus
Look at me, Venus
Come to me, Venus, Venus
Why not me?
Venus
I am your Venus
Come to me Botticelli
Cry for me
Cry with me
Lie with me
Written by: Jonathan A. Levi, Mel Marvin
