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People did not like that man Max Ernst
(The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus)
He was so irrational Max Ernst
(garden airplane-trap, garden airplane-trap)

The pleasures of the sight
The pleasures of the flesh
The vanities of life
He loved them all

In the pretty house they go away
(in the pretty house; in the pretty house)
In that pretty house they do not stay
(not in the pretty house; not in the pretty house)

In the burning sea
In the laughing lights
In the luminous sea
In the brash gold night

In the turtle's head I blacked out fast
In the city's halls always it laughed
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HA HA HA HA HA HA

Dada
Dada
Dada
Dada
Dada
Dada...

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foreverdrone On Nov 08, 2010

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by foreverdrone

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Do an image search sometime on "The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus". Fair warning: this Ernst painting is fairly shocking, even by modern standards.

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