Four Portraits

        Em   Dm
There's Arnold
         Em       Dm7
With his back to me
   C      Dm              Em     
Wandering down through an ill-lit
     Dm7
 street
        Em   Dm
I'm curious
           Em         Dm7
And would like to entreat
C         Dm          Em       Dm7
Is it inspiration or self-defeat

 Gm7            C7                 
And from the corner his figure 
Fmaj7
fades
 Fm            A#7        D#maj7 
And should I follow or retrograde
   G


         C    Dm
There's Anton
           Em     Dm
With a furrowed brow
C          Dm         Em         
A crooked finger and non-plussed 
  Dm7
scowl
           C      Dm
There's symmetry
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 Em         Dm7
He will soon endow
C          Dm                Em 
Crafting tone rows with his head
        Dm7
 faced down

 Gm          C7         Fmaj7
If I seek pleasure in melody
 Fm       A#7             D#maj7 
Have I betrayed best tendencies
   G


     C   Dm
Oh Alban
              Em       Dm7
We part our hair the same
   C     Dm       Em        Dm
Posing next to a drawer and frame
    C Dm       Em      Dm
At 23 and two years of age
  C            Dm            Em   
Your work is tasteful your life's 
 Dm7
urbane

 Gm7           C7               
As for the despot's who bring you 
   Fmaj7
down
 Fm         A#7                    
A century later they're still 
Gm
around

F#m       Bm                Bm/E
And so I sit by the window sill
         Bm/D                    
Feeling sad, the questions linger 
  Bm/G#
still
                G                  
I'm trying to decide if it's fake 
   Gm7
or real

      D     Em
I'm all alone
      F#m      Em7
In a noisy throng
  D             Em      F#m      
Nameless and ageless, all strung 
   Em7
along
   D       Em    F#m       Em
Nobody else can name this song
 D            Em   F#m           
Mispronunciations and words 
     Em7
spelled wrong

Gm7             C7               
At times like these I think I'm 
      Fmaj7
on my own
Fm            A#7          D#7
A new self-portrait of my own