Artists
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Artists is a song performed by Kurt and Ethan (voiced by Flight of the Conchords) and Lisa in the episode Elementary School Musical. The music is by Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement and the lyrics by Tim Long. The song is also reprised near the end of the show and during the credits.
Lyrics
- Cory:
- So what do you guys do when you're not camp counselors?
- Kurt:
- We're highly successful artists. And as artists we live in Springfield's most artistic borough.
- Ethan:
- Sprooklyn.
- Campers:
- Wow.
- Kurt:
- We spend our days acting and painting.
- Ethan:
- Dancing and sculpting.
- Kurt:
- Playing my Gibson.
- Ethan:
- Rehearsing my Ibsen.
- Kurt:
- Because you see, young artists...
- Ethan:
- Artists are the people who hold up a mirror.
- Kurt:
- Artists make society see its faults clearer.
- Posh Man:
- Ha ha ha.
- Kurt:
- Artists help step out...
- Kurt and Ethan:
- Oppression of wars.
- Ethan:
- And when we camp outdoors...
- Ethan and Kurt:
- Make the best s'mores!
- Kurt:
- Three layers, Mother Nature!
- Ethan:
- Mmmm, mmm...
- Kurt:
- Yeh, yeh!
- Kurt and Ethan:
- Artists end poverty with music and dance.
- Artists make art on the beaches of France.
- Lisa:
- I never knew artists were all so amazing!
- Kurt:
- Excuse me while I talk to this cow that is grazing.
- I give art
- Like you give milk.
- Grazing Cow:
- Mooo.
- [subtitle: But they can't bottle your genius.]
- Ethan:
- Everyone listens when artists are talking.
- Kurt:
- 'Cause artists are smarter than Mr. Stephen Hawking.
- Stephen Hawking:
- Oh, yeah. Break it down for me fellas.
- [Hawking scratches a record, while Ethan and Kurt breakdance]
- Stephen Hawking:
- A Brief History of Rhyme.
- Lisa:
- Do you think I can be an artist in the city?
- Ethan:
- Hold on, Lisa, let me check with the committee.
- [to Kurt, the cow, and Hawking] So what do you guys think?
- Stephen Hawking:
- Yes.
- Grazing Cow:
- Moo.
- Kurt:
- I agree.
- Ethan and Kurt:
- Yes, Lisa, you can be an artist in the world.
- So move to the city when you're less itty-bitty, girl.
- To the gritty city when you're less itty-bitty, girl!
- The city's pretty gritty for an itty-bitty pretty girl!
