Unseen

Do you know who I am?

The baroness? Old, eccentric bat?

The baroness with a paintbrush?

Reduced to a novelty act, and now not even that?

Now, the Hollywood stars

The closest this ridiculous place had to royalty

Have faded away, they’ve been replaced on all the screens

By vapid children in blue jeans

How did I wind up here?

My beauty all behind me?

How did I wind up here?

Forgotten worlds inside me?

Unseen

Unseen

Once, the world knew my name

They fought to buy my work, the rich, the royalty

I painted them all, I made myself the living test

And you were no one if not painted by

Lempicka

How the dandies fought for my commissions

Attended exhibitions, vied to buy

Anything my brushes ever touched

But, the real art was how to survive

How did I wind up here?

My beauty all behind me?

How did I wind up here?

Forgotten worlds inside me?

Unseen

I tangled with a world you can't imagine

Luxury and deprivation

Princes fought to light my cigarette

Crawling up from nothing, I created for myself

Something that the world had never seen

I painted what a woman could be

Do you know who I am?

An old woman who doesn't give a damn that history has passed her by

History's a bitch, but so am I

How did I wind up here?

Unseen

Unseen

Unseen

Unseen

Do you know who I am?

The strange girl with a paintbrush?

Today I will marry the only man for me

I will be a Lempicka