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Adam Selzer
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Vinnie's in the bedroom, painting endless skulls
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Covering the canvas until every inch is full
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Then he starts another one, or, failing that, the wall
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There're skulls in the dining room, spilling from the hall
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Some are black or yellow, none are quite the same
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But each one has an attitude and each one has a name
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Vladimir, the yellow one, looks angry on the door
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Marley, in the corner, is saying "Paint some more"
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"I can hear them speaking" says Vinnie full of fright
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"They whisper things inside my ear and keep me up all night
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Every time I finish one it says aloud its name
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I swear hear them laughing as I put them in the frame
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They're everywhere I look sometimes I wish I'd been born blind
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But if I burned my eyes out now, I'd see them in my mind
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And I won't stop painting them as long as I'm alive
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Until the day I finish one and the name it says is mine."
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Everything was catalogued after the artist's death
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The opening at the gallery was a critical success
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But as to which was his last piece, they critics can't agree
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Between one that looks terrified and one that looks relieved
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