Name: Mona Lisa's Ghost
Duration: 4 min 19 s
Channel: Capers Simmons
Description: "Mona Lisa's Ghost" is a song by Capers Simmons. Sparser than my usual ballads, but not barebones. Inspired by but not totally plagiarized from Elton John's 'Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatters'. Like, if I'd written it, this is what it'd sound like.

Mona Lisa's Ghost

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Sparser than my usual ballads, but not barebones. Inspired by but not totally plagiarized from Elton John's 'Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatters'. Like, if I'd written it, this is what it'd sound like.

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Capers Simmons

Songwriter specializing in modern rock, country, easy listening and pop music.

I'm a songwriter with a wide variety of influences. I am currently seeking a publisher for one or more of my songs. Though I focus on commercially viable Country/Rock and Adult Contemporary, my wide range of infuences ensures that on any given CD of my work, there's something for all tastes in music.

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Indie

Charts

Peak #189

Peak in subgenre #43

Author

Capers Simmons

Rights

2005

Uploaded

October 06, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.0 MB • 128 kbps • 4:19

Lyrics

"Mona Lisa's Ghost"
Capers Simmons

VERSE I
Leonardo,
Man, where are you?
Painting purgatory's darkness?
Making love to Mona Lisa in the fires?
Well I don't think you'll find her there,
Because her ghost floats in Times Square.
In the nighttime neon glare, like a halo grace

VERSE II
That's where you found her,
Pinned her hair up,
Fixed her makeup, bought her dinner,
You named her Mona Lisa, and sent her home.
And it's, “Thank you, dear. Goodnight,”
Because you're blinded in the light
And it makes you close your eyes. You blink, she's gone.

CHORUS
Leonardo, 
Don’t sleep too long on your way home tonight
That Mona Lisa smile has got you dreaming your life away.
And the subway line won't wait or mind
To see you make it home alright
So don’t sleep too long on your way home tonight.

VERSE III
L. DaVinci,
New York City,
At the corner, up on 9th street,
In a studio apartment getting high
In the evanescent bliss,
Forgetting everything you'll miss,
Thinking only of that wry and wistful smile.

~ CHORUS ~

VERSE IV
A chance encounter
With Mona Lisa
At the pawn shop on the corner
There's a halo ringed around her – a moment – gone.
Resurrect her now, and then 
I will never ask again
For the ghost of Mona Lisa in her eyes…

~ CHORUS ~

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