Broken Toys Are Art

from Pop's Gone And Bought A Gun by The Spanish Amanda

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Inspired by the early "Doll's House Drama" photography of Jo Stapleton, and written (half a decade ago, now) on the ancient Clavinova in the psychiatric hospital where I worked.

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Lyrics:

Broken toys are art
Broken toys are art
Some just break your heart
Broken toys are art
Broken toys
Broken toys
For broken girls and boys
Broken toys
Broken toys are art
Broken toys are art
Made to fall apart
Broken toys

Decapitated – art!
Mutilated – art, art, art!
Pieces missing – art!
Lethal wiring – art, art, art, art!

Broken toys are art
Broken toys are art (sometimes they’re bad art)
Broken toys are art
Broken toys are art

And with the most precious ones
You just can’t work out what’s gone wrong
But something always has gone wrong
Yeah, something somewhere’s always wrong
Full of sawdust – art!
Rusty clockwork – art, art, art!
Stitching severed – art!
Ruined forever, broken toys are art.

Broken toys are art
Broken toys are art
Silent in the dark
Broken toys are art
Broken toys
Broken toys
Made to be destroyed
Broken toys

Broken toys are art
Broken toys are art
Crush them underfoot
Broken toys

No instructions – art!
Nothing functions – art, art, art!
Leaky batteries – art!
No guarantees – art, art, art, art!

Broken toys are art
Broken toys are art (sometimes they’re great art)
Broken toys are art
Broken toys are art

Toys live lives of paradoxes
Look fantastic in their boxes
But they’re not in them very long
That’s where things start going wrong
Patched together – art!
Lost forever – art, art, art!
Wheels not turning – art!
Something’s burning, broken toys are art.

Broken toys are art
Broken toys are art
Broken toys are art
Broken toys are art

Decapitated – art!
Mutilated – art, art, art!
Pieces missing – art!
Lethal wiring – art, art, art, art!
No instructions – art!
Nothing functions – art, art, art!
Leaky batteries – art!
No guarantees – art, art, art, art!
Rusty clockwork – art, art, art!
Full of sawdust – art!
Patched together – art!
Lost forever, broken toys are art.

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from Pop's Gone And Bought A Gun, released June 25, 2020
Written by Huw Darling.

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