What is Art?

from Our Three Favourite Limbs by mzii

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This song is not so much a song as a surreal joke. Unfortunately it sounds more like a song than I had originally envisioned, and so fails to shock/surprise/alienate in the manner I had hoped.

Yes, the middle part is about Hitler. Yes, the end-ish part is about Leonardo da Vinci (someone told me about how he spent his whole life trying to paint like a child, and I thought that was beautiful). And no, I will not ever give you an actual definition of art.

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What is art? (x5)
God, Satan, spirituality
Amphetamines, passion, dichotomies
Fear of the unknown, plastic, space
Fascism, time, a great series of mistakes
Spatial awareness, simulation
Maths, loss, hypocrisy, stimulation
Motion, adventure, plagiarism
Competition, imitation, nationalism

Art is how you spend your time before committing yourself to the downfall of millions
Because they rejected you
Art is how you can regress acceptably, get older as you get younger
Change into a tree with more branches that you can see or count

Woahh

What is art?
Intellectually pleasing
What is art?
It's on a need-to-know basis

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from Our Three Favourite Limbs, released September 16, 2016

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