Over stroganoff, we consider Van Gogh

Entirely immersed, but sad, sad to the bone

And I say, "Here, take my ear, I'm gonna spend three years alone"

Then we laugh across the table,

'Cause we know I never, never wanna go

Over in that barrel

No, don't want to go deaf and dumb and blind

You're all I want, you're all I want, you're all I want tonight

You're all I want, you're all I want tonight

Maybe later I'll, dream of geologic time

How small we are, making our circles and our rhymes

If Van Gogh went to the moon, you think she'd care or know his name

Does the universe hold its breath... on each lonely man's fame?

They went, over in that barrel

Yeah, they went deaf and dumb and blind

All this to sell one painting and then take his own life

I prefer our dinner, pour me more wine -

Ready to dive

Full tilt, into the rest of this brief life

If I knew where that was, I'd go there tonight

But I'm no, Beethoven, you're no Matisse, no Van Gogh no, no

No brilliant, deaf and dumb and blind

So let's have our second helping and curl up in each other's light

We don't have to decide, anything tonight

We don't have to decide, anything tonight

(We don't have to)