No One Was Like Vermeer - Jonathan Richman

Back in the days of old Rembrandt

Back in the time of Jan Steen

All of them giants of shadow and light

But no one was like Vermeer

Some paintings smell of joy and sweat

Some paintings plain look so fine

And some are sad and passionate

But Vermeer sends a chill up your spine

Yeah Vermeer sends a chill up your spine

Vermeer was eerie

Vermeer was strange

He had his own color range

As if born in a more modern age

They may be oh a hundred or so years ago

What’s this a ghost in the gallery

Great Scot the Martians are here

Why are his paintings so unlike the others

Unlike the other ones so near

No one was like Vermeer

Back in the days of Rembrandt

Back in the time of old Jan Steen

All of the masters of shadow and light

But no one was like Vermeer

Vermeer…