Plan and Design lyrics
by Original Broadway Cast of Lempicka
[MARINETTI]
A painting is not a woman
[TAMARA, spoken]
But I am painting a woman
[MARINETTI, spoken]
Right
[MARINETTI]
A painting is not a woman
[TAMARA, spoken]
But we are to capture life—
[MARINETTI, spoken]
Life, death, everything, nothing, how?
[MARINETTI]
A painting is not a woman
[TAMARA]
A painting is not a woman
[MARINETTI, spoken]
Or a warhorse
[TAMARA, sung]
Or a warhorse
[MARINETTI, spoken]
Or a landscape, or a night filled with stars
[TAMARA]
Or a glittering sky
[MARINETTI, spoken]
A painting is a flat surface covered with paint
[TAMARA]
A painting is canvas, pigment, plan, and design
[MARINETTI, spoken]
Colors ground to dust, suspended in oil, smeared across cloth, that's all
[TAMARA, spoken]
That's all?
[MARINETTI, spoken]
Everything within your control
[TAMARA, spoken]
Hahaha, wouldn't that be nice?
[MARINETTI]
We do not control the world
We control one flat rectangle of canvas
At a time
[TAMARA]
We do not control the world
We control one flat rectangle of canvas
We do not control the world
We control one flat—