Paul Brady - Say You Don't Mean lyrics

You say Matisse and Picasso
Scanned the Montparnasse sky
They envied Samson in Gaza
His blind all-seeing eye
Not to mention his outrageous hair
You say no decent painter will
Set a thing down straight
Only a breaker of boundaries
May be truly great
Think Rimbaud, think Baudelaire
You say that I've misread the
Venting of your spleen

All the terrible things you've said
(You say you don't mean
You say you don't mean)
The horrible things you've done
(You say you don't mean
You say you don't mean) haw haw haw haw haw!
(You say you don't mean
You say you don't mean)

Next up James Joyce and Sam Beckett
They scanned the Sandy mount sky
All they saw was small potatoes
They'd bigger fish to fry
Ain't it always some revolt?
You say a decent writer always tells it slant
I should take my need for order
Down to the assembly plant
Think Henry Ford and Samuel Colt
You say I've jumped the gun
By raising the umpteen

Terrible things you've said
(You say you don't mean
You say you don't mean)
All the horrible things you've done
(You say you don't mean
You say you don't mean) haw haw haw haw haw!
(You say you don't mean
You say you don't mean)
Yeah! yeah! yeah! yeah!
(You say you don't mean
You say you don't mean)

A renewal slip from Time magazine
On which you scrawled "try not to cling"
Was your last communique

You say you don't mean to be mean
And that none of this means anything
But, you don't mean a single thing you say

You say Beefheart and Frank Zappa
Scanned the Mojave sky
It seemed the mighty Mississippi had
Left them high and dry
While their all-night parties
Disturbed the peace
You say no decent singer loves
The first path he takes
But wait's for a real zinger
The mother of all snakes
Think Sinatra, think Marvin Gaye
You say you'll no longer shun the
Fact you must come clean

(About) the terrible things you've said
(You say you don't mean
You say you don't mean)
All the horrible things you've done
(You say you don't mean
You say you don't mean)
All the miserable thoughts you thought
(You say you don't mean
You say you don't mean)
And the pitiful games you play
(You say you don't mean
You say you don't mean) haw haw haw haw haw!
(You say you don't mean
You say you don't mean)
Yeah! yeah! yeah! yeah!
(You say you don't mean
You say you don't mean)