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This one's called
The Topers and it's

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about this Velasquez painting,
which when I saw it in Prado

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in Spain just arrested
me for a long time.

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So it's called The Topers.

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In El Triunfo de Baco,
he looks sad for us,

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for we who are too stupid
to be sad for ourselves.

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It's in his ivory pudge,
it's in his ivory crown.

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Who else is sad for us?

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Grandpa Nelson
down in Mississippi

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who truly believes
Jesus was sipping grape

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punch at his last trough.

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What's shocking really
beyond this puffiness

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is that night is
actually quite generous.

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It knows something that we
don't, as did the Bacchus.

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It's only Velasquez
who sat around fussing

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with the charcoal
gray sky, and it's

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Velasquez who lived and died.

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