Art Is Dead

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E      Ab
Art is dead.
Dbm    A
Art is dead.
E      Ab
Art is dead.
Dbm    A
Art is dead.

E             Ab                 Dbm
Entertainers like to seem complicated
      A              E
But we're not complicated
           Ab            Dbm
I can explain it pretty easily

         A               E
Have you ever been to a birthday
            Ab
Party for children?
                 Dbm
And one of the children
               A
Won't stop screaming
                    E
'Cause he's just a little
              Ab
Attention attractor
              Dbm
When he grows up
                 A
To be a comic or actor
            E
He'll be rewarded
             Ab
For never maturing
          Dbm                A
For never understanding or learning
            E
That every day
            Ab
Can't be about him
               Dbm
There's other people
             A
You selfish asshole

               E
I must be psychotic
             Ab
I must be demented
                   Dbm
To think that I'm worthy
                A
Of all this attention

                E                        Ab
Of all of this money, you worked really hard for
             Dbm                            A
I slept in late while you worked at the drug store
              E              Ab
My drug's attention, I am an addict
            Dbm                  A
But I get paid to indulge in my habit
               E                   Ab                   Dbm
It's all an illusion, I'm wearing make-up, I'm wearing make-up
          A
Make-up, make-up, make-up, make-up...

E      Ab
Art is dead
   Dbm                         A
So people think you're funny, how do we get those people's money
E             Ab
I said art is dead
      Dbm                      A                  E
We're rolling in dough, while Carlin rolls in his grave
    Ab         Dbm        A
His grave, his grave

    E              Ab
The show has got a budget
    Dbm            A
The show has got a budget
    E                   Ab                        Dbm
And all the poor people way more deserving of the money
      A
Won't budge it

         E                  Ab
'Cause I wanted my name in lights
       Dbm               A
When I could have fed a family of four
    E             Ab
For forty fucking fortnights
Dbm           A
Forty fucking fortnights

         E                     Ab
I am an artist, please God forgive me
         Dbm                    A
I am an artist, please don't revere me
         E                       Ab
I am an artist, please don't respect me
         Dbm                        A
I am an artist, you're free to correct me

                 E
A self-centered artist
               Ab
Self-obsessed artist
         Dbm
I am an artist
         A
I am an artist

                E
But I'm just a kid
            Ab
I'm just a kid
            Dbm
I'm just a kid

Kid
    A
And maybe I'll grow out of it

E