Singing chunks

It’s not the best song in the world but North Carolina band Superchunk did write Artclass about Yayoi Kusama the Japanese artist who opens the revamped City Gallery at the end of the month. If you can’t live without the Artclass ringtone, you can get it here.

And here, for fanatics, are the lyrics…

here we go in spurts
the colors nearly burst
and you may notice a shaking in your eye
mataphors the worst
but are you being driven or do you drive?

on a trip between two points in your infinity net
obliterate yourself from the scene but please do not forget

cover me with spots - black and red dots
until i'm crowding up your visual field
bare assed and beautiful you're climbing on your art like a
shield

now i want - i say sang - i do
everybody dance now

welcome to art class
forget your acid-free paper and glass

welcome to art class
be a bride stripped bare of the past

why so serious?
why so serious when it's only your life that’s at stake
why so serious
when your life is the art that you make
life is the art that you make

sell anything you want
but it's worth no more and no less than a kiss
try not to represent even that
cuz this moment is all that it is
in a garden of glass there’s a red plastic tree
so shit in a can but your art is not free
i sang - i want - i do
and everybody dances with me

welcome to art class
and yes it does involve shaking your ass
welcome to art class
always keep your face to the glass

why so serious?
why so serious - when it's only your life that’s at stake
why so serious - when your life is the art that you make
life is the art that you make
why so serious?