If the members of the groups whose spirit
You summon appeared in this room right now all the sudden
Would they sign off on how you studied their time?
How you subtly refined their vocab and mind?
Or would they say look here what have we spawned?
It’s a culture of pawns
It’s a lake full of small ponds

While we were doing Velvets
They were doing Dada
They turned on a sonnet
And ripped it back on it
While we were doing Pink Flag ecstatic at half mast

Still doing Velvets
Still doing Elvis
And there’s no vanguard revival
No vanguard revival
She said there’s no vanguard revival, false concept

The vanguard never was a false concept
Classical is modern
Returning is modern
If there’s no vanguard revival
Then the vanguard never was