Jonathan Richman - No-one Was Like Vermeer lyrics
[Jonathan Richman - No-one Was Like Vermeer lyrics]
Back in the days of Rembrandt
Back in the time of old 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
Some paintings 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 a more modern colour range
As if born in another age
Like maybe a hundred or so years ago
What's this? A ghost in the gallery?
Great Scot! The Martians are here!
These strange little paintings next
To the others no-one was like Vermeer
Vermeer was eerie vermeer was weird
He had his own way of doing things
With the paintings from another era
Another era
Back in the time of old 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
Some paintings 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 a more modern colour range
As if born in another age
Like maybe a hundred or so years ago
What's this? A ghost in the gallery?
Great Scot! The Martians are here!
These strange little paintings next
To the others no-one was like Vermeer
Vermeer was eerie vermeer was weird
He had his own way of doing things
With the paintings from another era
Another era