Chiaroscuro Lyrics by Paula Cole

Chiaroscuro Lyrics

    Goya and el greco, gaugin and van gogh
    Painted light in the darkness, chiaroscuro
    Imagine we were a painting
    A woman and a man,
    Two lovers on a canvas
    On is white, one is black.

    Darkness and light will be married tonight in chiaroscuro
    Your body on mine - two colors combined in chiaroscuro

    Vermeer and velazquez, rembrandt and rousseau
    Painted perfect union, chiaroscuro
    The man and the woman
    The knife and the spoon
    The xylem and the phloem
    The sun and the moon

    Chorus

    How we lived a secret life from racist eyes
    You said i couldn't understand you anyway i tried

    But in this moment together, in our secret unity
    Our skins become the still life, our souls epiphany

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