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If You're Creative, Get Stuffed

My dad's a builder,
His friend's a plumber.
They're getting cancer
And you can get stuffed.

He works like a nigger
For a moderate figure,
We're not underprivileged
But you can get stuffed.

If you're creative you can get stuffed

If you paint like Picasso (1), unlearn it
If you've written Ulysses (2), burn it
If you're Flaubert (3), why trouble?
I do my best work with a shovel
And you can get stuffed

They dig in the soil
Their work involves toil
Sweat on their foreheads
And you can get stuffed

My dad's better than your dad,
I'm better than you
Your dad's in advertising
And you'll be a gigolo too

If you're creative you can get stuffed

If you're an adman, artist, poet or actor
Student, tutor, writer, chiropractor
If you design clothing
Or make a living from posing
If you paint pictures
Or run a boutique for bitches

If you deal in antiques
Or anything chic
If your career involves feeling,
Instead of hauling and kneeling,
Here's the end of the matter
You can get stuffed.

Annotations

1. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish artist best known as the developer of cubism.
2. Ulysses, a novel, is the master work of Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941). Joyce is mentioned in several other TISM songs including Whatareya?
3. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was a French writer, famous for his novel Madame Bovary (and for being the partial namesake of one Humphrey B. Flaubert).