Natalie Merchant - Poor De Chirico lyrics

[Verse:] Oh my dear friend My dear friend giorgio How has this time breton discouraged your liaison with The i-styled metaphysical incongruous scenarios? Dauntly jaunt about through nostalgic despair Within childlike renderings of a nightmarish recall All my images fragments i've shored upon my ruins Pictor cla**icus sum (i am pure) Step solemn with the air of reluctant haze As rod and hoop shadow children scatter through a henna arcade Figures indentured to a windless landscape Enduring silence and flame Da da da No loyalty to the nonsensical Scorned their nihilist pageantry