[A long version of the De Rigueurmortis track informally called "Genius is Different" You can download a Windows Media file of Ron reading this on the Channel 31 show Sub Sonic.]
You can be selfish and demanding
Brutal and a slut
If it makes your art outstanding
Not if you're a footy player, but.
Coming from Picasso
It's a temperamental fit
Coming from Wayne Carey
It's "Grow a bigger set of tits".
Dylan Thomas was a pisshead
Jackson Pollock was a prick
Norman Mailer hates women
It's an end of season trip
Aware of your own special skill
You make demands that are absurd
If you're an author, you're difficult
If you're a half forward flanker, you're a turd
Where's the intellectual analysis excusing a ruck rover
Crossin' social norms he can't respect, and a childhood he can't get over
From ADD to poetry, if you sculpt or paint or sing,
There's a million excuses for bastardry,
But if you play footy, man, you're pinged!
Heroes may seem so from afar
But if you meet 'em you'll think twice
Genius is different from the rest of us -
Most of us are nice.
