George Abud - Plan and Design Lyrics

[MARINETTI]
A painting is not a woman

[TAMARA, spoken]
But I am painting a woman

[MARINETTI, sung]
A painting is not a woman

[TAMARA, spoken]
But we are to capture life —

[MARINETTI]
Life, death, everything, nothing, how?
[sung] A painting is not a woman

[TAMARA]
A painting is not a woman

[MARINETTI, spoken]
Or a warhorse

[TAMARA, sung]
Or a warhorse

[MARINETTI, spoken]
Or a landscape, or a night filled with stars —

[TAMARA, sung and overlapping]
Or a glittering sky...

[MARINETTI, spoken]
A painting is a flat surface covered in paint

[TAMARA, sung]
A painting is canvas, pigment, plan, and design

[MARINETTI, spoken]
Colors ground to dust, suspended in oil, smeared across cloth — that's all

[TAMARA]
That's all

[MARINETTI]
Everything within your control!

[TAMARA]
(laughs) Wouldn't that be nice?!

[MARINETTI, sung]
We do not control the world;
We control one flat rectangle of canvas
At a time
[TAMARA]
We do not control the world;
We control one flat rectangle of canvas
We do not control the world;
We control one flat —