Jonathan Richman - No-one Was Like Vermeer lyrics

Back in the days of Rembrandt Back in the time of old Jan Steen All of them giants of shadow and light But no-one was like Vermeer Some paintings smell of joy and sweat Some paintings plain look so fine Some paintings are sad and pa**ionate But Vermeer sends a chill up your spine Yeah, Vermeer sends a chill up your spine Vermeer was eerie Vermeer was strange He had a more modern colour range As if born in another age Like maybe a hundred or so years ago What's this? A ghost in the gallery? Great Scot! The Martians are here! These strange little paintings next to the others No-one was like Vermeer Vermeer was eerie Vermeer was weird He had his own way of doing things With the paintings from another era Another era