Say You Don’t Mean

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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 waits 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)