I Don't Want To Be An Artist

My good gobbalins and girlies

Mortals and mifits

Ghouls and grembolins

I present to you now the award winning polymath of stage and stream

Kate Nyx!

I don't want to be an artist

I don't think I want to starve

Sure I do love to draw and paint but

Someday I'd like to own a car

I don't want to make my living

Doing song and dance

Unfortunately, It's destiny

And art is who I am

I don't want to be unique, no

It'd be nice to just fit in

To be comfy in my status quo

What it would be to feel akin

To the average joe who, don't you know, turns his work in on time

Unfortunately, it's destiny

So the artiste am I

I'd love to have a nine to five I trudged through every day

Cursing my boss for keeping me criminally underpaid

Maybe if I was normal I would finally be free

Cause every year the IRS would send a check to me

I didn't mean to be creator

I didn't mean to tell a joke

At some point I had to admit

My plans for life went up in smoke

I was cursed to make my living selling what I make

Unfortunately, between you and me

I think destiny is fake!

At first I thought that I was gripped by siren songs of fame

That I just wanted the whole world to remember my name

Or is it that I want to lie to everyone I meet

When someone asks what I do for a living on the street

I don't want be an artist

I don't want to feel the pain

Of failing at something you care about

Publicly admitting shame

I just want to make things I like and do nothing else at all

Unfortunately, between you and me

"Artist" is what that's called

Unfortunately, between you and me

"Artist" is what that's called