Slave to Beauty

This song lyric is a pastiche of
'Musee des Beaux Arts'
by WH Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Romance
• beauty

[facialhairy]

sweet vid rono

[julesseluj]

yeah Ronno.

my fave hit!!

[mcshipreck]

awesome vid bro. keep up the good work :)

[porkchopboy11]

YEA RONDOG YOU SHOULD SING AT PARTIES MATE

[falstaffswims]

Ahhh! I only ask this question about once every five years, when I'm completely impressed, and befuddled* --is this the brilliant f'cking thing I THINK it is? *I'm also befuddled about what "befuddled" means. I assume it means "confused" or something like that... the world's so full of befuddling shit. But I think I love this, this, this.

[stoogego]

Ah this will always be the one thing thats prevents your other hits from reaching number one. People will always be expecting music and lyrics of this calibre. It will be the equivalent of Star Trek to William Shatner. The Seinfeld to Jason Alexander, The M.A.S.H to Alan Alda, and so on. Perhaps when you break the curse of 'Slave to Beauty' you can perhaps send me your chord structure, like I requested a long time ago. Nonetheless, good luck.

[dushigong]

Awesome! your completely rockin!!

[Sumkillerbee]

YEH RONDOG!

[vaclavsigut]

Good day, Sir Ronaldson, can me send text and akords this song.Thank.Vaclav Sigut

[pmw787]

I love this ! You remind me a little of Gord Downie from The Tragically Hip.

[flamerr1234]

Related text for "Belonging"