Virgilio Ranzato (May 7, 1883 in Venice – April 20, 1937 in Como) was an Italian composer and violinist.
Virgilio Ranzato began his career firstly as violin player on the Conservatory in Venezia and Milan. Later he studied musical composition as well. Than he worked mostly as chamber music player or conductor. From around 1910 he worked mostly as a composer, and besides others he wrote an opera Campane di guerra (1933, Milan), and several operettas. Ranzato served as concertmaster for the LaScala Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. He made several recordings on the Pathe label.
you're working like a monkey
who's been training by a sick junkie
on a mission to get money
for a new suit and tie
to wear to a reception
where they envy your deception
and give complements and praises to the ones they despite
practicing your smile in the mirror all the while
try to cultivate the style of the bastards in power
i know what they're selling
cuz their nervous twitch is telling
you're coming off smelling like the pig of the hour
i got a lot of people telling me i'm outta my mind
and i don't know why
my brain was bleeding and my fingers were proceding
through a notebook i was keeping since the dawning of time
senses were coroaded
you know that i was loaded
you were dealing i was reeling
from the feeling and the madness was consealing
it's a siren song
people that i trusted would surley have me busted
if they ever had a clue what was really going on
i got a lot of people telling me i'm out of my mind