Ce N'est Pas a Bunch of Lies

"Ce N'est Pas a Bunch of Lies" is a song by Damian Cowell from Damian Cowell Vs Art, a limited edition album sold exclusively with Monanisms, a coffee table book published for the opening of the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania in December 2010. 
In September 2023, the song was featured on Cowell's self-titled compilation album.
==Lyrics==
:Disbelief stands in the dock
:As the Prosecution drones away
:Our Learned Friend Stacey Farquhar-Lacey tugs his forelocks
:As I give you exhibit A
:An art installation black as night
:Full of squashed insects, not a speck of white
:Sends a buzz through the gallery, fingers click iPhones keys
:As Farquhar-Lacey faced the jury
:He said, "What you see is literal, it's metaphysical, visceral
:This is a door into mankind's soul, a semaphore, a portal
:(You could see he was on a roll)
:Like forgiveness from the abused,
:Through this blackness transcendence lies
:Yet I put it to you that the accused
:Has called this masterpiece "A Bunch of Flies"!
:Defence rises amid the commotion,
:His sepulchral tone full of resignation
:Posits a hypothetical notion, says,
:"I want you to use your imagination,
:What if spin doctors are quacks?
:And really black is not the new black?
:What if Marilyn Monroe was just some chick,
:And Citizen Kane was just some flick?
:What if Finnegan's Wake a fake by a talented flake
:And "Like A Rolling Stone" was plucked from where the sun never shone
:And that eye rhyme was just bad poetry; consider this possibility:
:What if a bunch of flies was just a bunch of lies?"
:The case was all over the press
:The judge was grave in his address
:He said: "We can't have this sort of thing here!
:You'd threaten society's fragile balance
:Politics would be no kind of career
:Promotion would be decided on talent
:Imagine publishers looking for brilliance
:Not marketability
:We'd have to pump financial assistance
:Into the self-help industry
:Lifestyle gurus would be out of work
:The rich wouldn't have a right of birth
:Altruism would be free of perks
:The meek might even inherit the earth
:Why do we put cynics in the corner
:Where fortune's favor's not bequeathed?
:This is the natural order:
:It's better to lie than not believe".
:And so the case ended
:Disbelief was suspended
==External links and references==
*The TISM Wiki at archive.org
*Damian Cowell Vs Art at Discogs
*Damian Cowell compilation at Discogs
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