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I'm like the painter
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Who does abstract painting at home
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I'm like the painter
Who does abstract painting at home
But likes to go to the sidewalk
And do sketches of people in the street
People in the street
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People in the street
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People in the street
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I was living in a wasteland
Dominated by these maniacs
These complete creeps
I was almost killed a few times
German puppets burnt the Jews
Jewish puppets did not choose
Puppet vultures eat the dead
Puppet corpses they are fed
Puppet winds and puppet waves
Puppet sailors in their graves
Puppet flower
Puppet stem
Puppet time dismantles them
I was living in a wasteland
Dominated by these maniacs
I was almost killed a few times
There were six or seven cab drivers murdered a year
All around you
Except for the imminent violence all around you
All the violence around you
All around you
Except for the imminent violence
All around you
(???)
All around you
I was living in a wasteland
Imminent violence all around you
Except for the imminent
Dominated by these maniacs
Imminent violence all around you
I was almost killed a few times
The imminent violence all around you
Except for the imminent violence all around you
There were six or seven cab drivers murdered a year
Maniac
All around you
All around you
Violence all around
I liked it except for the imminent
All around you
I liked it except for the imminent
All around you
All around you
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Seventy-eight
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NOTES:
This is less of a remix and more of a Beck song with samples from Philip Glass works. Supposedly there are 20 samples in the song. The "puppet" lyrics were written by Leonard Cohen and the rest are excerpts from three Philip Glass interviews: this older one and these excerpts from more recent interviews:
"What effect has the film work had on him? "It has made me very happy," says Glass with a rare burst of laughter. "The high-art music and commercial, they're different metiers, they're different languages. I'm like the painter," he adds with a grin, "who does abstract painting at home but likes to go to the sidewalk and do sketches of people in the street.""
"Q: Is it true that you didn't make a dime off music until you were 40?
A: Forty-one. I was still driving a cab when I was 41. I liked it, except for the imminent violence all around you. What I liked was that I wasn't going to an office. I didn't have a boss. I was basically a one-man business. Unfortunately, there were parts of New York that saw it as a bank on wheels. And they could rob the bank pretty much at will.
Q: Were you ever robbed?
A: Oh, things like that happened, and it was very scary, and I was very glad to give it up. I was almost killed a few times. During the years that I was driving-that would be '73 to '78-there were six or seven cabdrivers being murdered a year."
APPEARS ON:
Rework: Philip Glass Remixed
YEAR RELEASED:
2012
LENGTH:
20:51
WRITTEN BY:
Beck Hansen
Philip Glass
REMIXED BY:
Beck Hansen
LYRICS BY:
Philip Glass
Leonard Cohen
Beck Hansen
PERFORMERS:
Beck Hansen
Vocals
Philip Glass
Piano
Dominique Plaisant
"Puppet" Vocals
Tara Hugo
"Puppet" Vocals
Will Erat
"Puppet" Vocals
Daniel Keeling
"Puppet" Vocals
SAMPLES:
"In The Upper Room - Dance I" by Philip Glass
"My Worst Habit" by Philip Glass
"Puppet Time" by Philip Glass
"Vanessa And The Changelings" by Philip Glass
"Ange Des Orages" by Philip Glass
"A Gentleman's Honor" by Philip Glass
"Main Title Neverwas" by Philip Glass
"Tapajós River" by Philip Glass
"Scene 6 - The Somnambulist" by Philip Glass
"Morning Passages" by Philip Glass
"Journey To The Inn" by Philip Glass
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