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Mona Lisa's Got an RPG (Banksy)

from 12 Painting Sketches by Sandpiper Parade

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This track is more fun than anything else, reveling in the absurd of Banksy's piece rather than going too deep into Banksy's message about authority, "fine art." Of course, Stinger missles (it's actually not an RPG she has) were also the Americans' contribution to Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan when they were fighting the Russians (or is that just a bazooka?). There's also some feminism and cultural displacement going on here too. :)

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Mona Lisa's got an RPG
Metal blaring on her Mp3
Mona Lisa's got an RPG
And she's after me

Crooked cop gonna clean up the streets
Whitewash 'em with the gas grenades
Mona Lisa's got an RPG
And she's after me

What goes on behind that smile?
Did you get tired of being looked at?
Whose helicopters are you gonna bring down?
Who exactly gave you that?

She's a real stinger that Mona Lisa
Float like a butterfly
Sting like a revolutionary (jihadi?)

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from 12 Painting Sketches, released August 6, 2016

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Indie-folk Acoustic Singer-Songwriter Multilingual World Traveler Music That is Sometimes to God, and sometimes not.

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