I wanna make it like the great artists did Always hold a cigarette Be hip on fashion Do cocaine Where can I buy some cocaine? I'm gonna try it like the fine artists did Have several children by ten different women Just to be safe I'll give em all goofy names And when the critics ask me "What does this piece mean?" I'll ask them to search internally And I'll present it with such poise, such wit But in reality it won't mean shit I'm gonna do it like the true artists did Stand for the people but still mingle with the rich I hate the man, man! But that's my check in his hand! When finally My subversion poses too much of a threat I'll be exiled by the U.S. government I'll move to Spain Overdose on cocaine Die lonely, poor, and deranged But gain my eternal fame And I'd have made it like the great artists did The kind of living that the fine artists lived Oh yeah, I think I'll make it like the great True artists did