Get Started-Start A Fire - Graham Parker

The mona lisa’s sister doesn’t smile

She tried to pose but only for a while

Leonardo sent her home since then she has lived alone

With her few belongings and a copy of a painting of herself unhappy

She is going to burn it when she’s ready

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Get started, start a fire

Get started, start a fire

Get started, start a fire

Marilyn was lying all alone with an empty bottle by the phone

Kennedy was not around she was cold when she was found

But she’d gone where the goddesses are sleeping

Where the molten tongues of flame are leaping

Or where the angel’s hearts are beating

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Get started, start a fire

Get started, start a fire

Get started, start a fire

Joan of arc was burning at the stake somebody had made a big mistake

She had lit a cigarette in an aiport where you get

All your fingers taken off for smoking.

Meanwhile up the road a factory’s choking

The ones who killed her work there I’m not joking

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Get started, start a fire

Get started, start a fire

Get started, start a fire

Get started, start a fire

Get started, start a fire

Get started, start a fire

Get started, start a fire