Lyrics Vic Chesnutt

Vic Chesnutt

Soft Picasso

It was a modern love affair completely cool and casual

They hardly knew each other was there

Both of them had their own getting off to do

They had to dream about their own self when they were through

But the modern girl was elated with what the revolution gave her

Since she was liberated she could have anything that striked her fancy

And she fancied quite a bit if it felt good she did it

And she did it every chance she could get

With her main modern man and otherwise

And her taste wasn't limited to just modern guys

Since another modern girl showed her that modern girls know how to hold her

And after she had her eyes opened all her old close friends started getting closer

And new friends weren't that far away but the modern man wasn't so lucky being shook from his usual role as the heartbreaker

He was completely battered and bewildered

When he actually started in feeling something for her

And he discovered a new emotion when they stopped ending up together as frequently

And when he finally confronted her with the question had she been bedding down with others in the periphery without him

And she replied "Hell yes! ain't it funny!" so view the modern man looking like a soft Picasso

He's there with his head in his hand repeating to himself an epigram "Live by the scam, die by the scam."