Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Mark Rothko was an American abstract painter best known for color field paintings, large canvases with one or two colors in rectangular blocks.
[Verse 1]
The blue it speaks so full
It's like the beauty one can barely stand
Or too much things dropped in your hand
And there's a green like the peace
In your heart, sometimes
Painted underneath the sheets of ashy snow
And there's a blue like where the urban angels go, very bright
Now the Calder mobile tips a biomorphic sphere
Then it swings its dangling pieces 'round to other paintings here
[Verse 2]
Your behavior is so male
It's like you can't explain yourself to me
I think I'll ask Renoir to tea
For his flowers are as real as they are, all the time
And the sunlight sets the furniture aglow
It's a pleasant time as far as people go
How far do they go?
Well his roses are perfect and his words have no wings
I know what he can give me and I like to know these things
[Verse 3]
I met her at the funeral
She said I don't know what he meant to me
I just know he affected me
An effect not unlike his art, I believe
The service starts and we are in the know
He had so much to say, but more to show
And ain't that true of life?
So we weep for a person who lived at great cost
And we barely knew his powers 'til we sensed that we had lost
[Verse 4]
A friend and I in a museum room
She says, "Look at Mark Rothko's side
Did you know about his suicide?
Some folks were born with a foot in the grave
But not me, of course"
And she smiles, as if to say we're in the know
Then she names a coffee place where we can go, uptown
Now the painting is desperate, but the crowds wash away
In a world of kind pedestrians who've seen enough today
Mark Rothko Song was written by Dar Williams.
Mark Rothko Song was produced by Dar Williams & Adam Rothberg & David Seitz.