Impress Me

"Impress Me" is the second song on the Starry concept album.

Lyrics
[ALL]

Try to catch our eye

Show something that we haven't seen

And make us feel alive

Beyond boredom and vanity

And when I see the skies

Remind me what it's like to be

A person stuck in time

That's searching for identity

So help me please

Impress me

Find me in Montmartre

High above the madness of Paris

Step inside

Take a break from reality

Selling our philosophies

Bored with being bourgeoisie

[MORISOT]

Paris takes itself too seriously

[DEGAS]

Montmartre's the only part of the city that gets me

[BERNARD]

Government's reinventing the wheel

[PISSARRO]

Still digging up bits of the Bastille

[ALL]

Time to admit this country's a circus

[DEGAS]

There were too many Louis

[MORISOT]

Too many Napoleons

[ALL]

Too many choices for future historians

At least in Montmartre we get lost on purpose

If you wanted God there's Notre Dame

We deal in something different than psalms

Found in the passage between brains and heart

Montmartre is for art

Try to catch our eye

Show something that we haven't seen

And make us feel alive

Beyond boredom and vanity

And when I see the skies

Remind me what it's like to be

A person stuck in time

That's searching for identity

So help me please

Impress me

[THEO]

Galleries are gravity

Artists find their way to Goupil & Cie

They say Theo, Theo

Theo van Gogh

Before you go

Let me know

What you think of my paintings

That's the daily serenade

[ALL]

'Cause selling artwork is your trade

[THEO]

Paris, the city of light

What do you have for me tonight?

[MORISOT]

Well, here's a new portrait

[DEGAS]

Get in line!

[TOULOUSE and BERNARD]

Take a look!

[THEO]

Please friends, one at a time

[DEGAS]

A café

[EMELIE]

A farmer

[DEGAS]

A still life with fruit so fresh you can smell it

[MORISOT]

It's cutting edge

[DEGAS]

It's avant-garde

[ALL]

Worthy of the Grand Boulevard

Theo, Theo

Do you think you can sell it?

[THEO]

They wish that I could help but still the answer's no

I can't take a chance against the status quo

Not everyone gets hung up with the chosen few

[THEO and ALL]

When will I break through?

Won't you help me please

[SEGATORI]

Undress me

[THEO]

A tempting offer, as always, Madame Segatori

[SEGATORI]

Come come Theo, we both know they are not here to behave

They came to Montmartre to drink my wine

To get tangled in something clandestine

Treat the Champs-Élysées for cabaret

For bohemia without the beret

You were people minding manners

Lower rents and lower standards

[GAUGUIN]

Hey

[MORISOT]

Not that low

[SEGATORI]

To spend a franc on a late night tryst

[VINCENT]

Save a few coins for my canvas?

[SEGATORI]

C'est va?

[ALL]

Find us in Montmartre

Pissing all our worries away

[SEGATORI]

At Le Tambourin cafe

Who knows what tomorrow will bring

Until then

[SEGATORI and THEO]

We want the same thing

[ALL]

To seize the day

To find our way

To understand

To find a man

To ease the pain

To entertain

[GAUGUIN]

To forget about the past few centuries

[ALL]

To make history

For curiosity

C'est la vie!

[SEGATORI]

To be free

[ALL]

To be free

[THEO]

Sure as the passage of the river Seine

The future will be forged with brushes, pencils, and pens

[THEO and ALL]

If Paris is the world, Montmartre is Bethlehem

And art is our amen

Try to catch our eye

Show something that we haven't seen

And make us feel alive

Beyond boredom and vanity

And when I see the skies

Remind me what it's like to be

A person stuck in time

That's searching for identity

So help me please

Impress me

Help me please

Impress me

Help me please

Impress me