Cole Paula Chiaroscuro Lyrics

Chiaroscuro Lyrics

(ke-ar -p-skoor o: the relationship of darkness and light in a painting or
pictorial 

 setting.) 

 

 Goya and El Greco, Gaugin and Van Gogh

 Painted light in darkness, chiaroscuro

 Imagine we were a painting

 A woman and a man,

 Two lovers on the canvas

 One is white, one is black.

 

 Darkness and light will be married tonight in chiaroscuro,

 Your body on mine -- two colors combined in chiaroscuro.

 Vermeer and Velazquez, Rembrandt and Rousseau

 Painted perfect union, chiaroscuro

 The man and the wonam

 The knife and the spoon

 The xylem and the phloem

 The sun and the moon

 

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 How we lived a secret life from racist eyes

 You said I couldn't understand you anyway I tried

 

 But in this moment together, in our secret unity

 Our skins become the still life, our souls epiphany

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