1. WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE

Oh, the streets of rome are filled with rubble,
Ancient footprints are everywhere
You can almost think that you’re seein’ double
On a cold, dark night on the spanish stairs
Got to hurry on back to my hotel room,
Where I’ve got me a date with botticelli’s niece
She promised that she’d be right there with me
When I paint my masterpiece

Oh, the hours I’ve spent inside the coliseum,
Dodging lions and wastin’ time
Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle, I could hardly stand to See ’em,

Yes, it sure has been a long, hard climb
Train wheels runnin’ through the back of my memory,
When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese
Someday, everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody
When I paint my masterpiece

Sailin’ ’round the world in a dirty gondola
Oh, to be back in the land of coca-cola!

I left rome and landed in brussels,
On a plane ride so bumpy that I almost cried
Clergymen in uniform and young girls pullin’ muscles,
Everyone was there to greet me when I stepped inside
Newspapermen eating candy
Had to be held down by big police
Someday, everything is gonna be diff’rent
When I paint my masterpiece


2. I SHALL BE RELEASED

They say ev’rything can be replaced
Yet ev’ry distance is not near
So I remember ev’ry face
Of ev’ry man who put me here
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released

They say ev’ry man needs protection
They say ev’ry man must fall
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released

Standing next to me in this lonely crowd
Is a man who swears he’s not to blame
All day long I hear him shout so loud
Crying out that he was framed
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released