[Verse]
If the members of the groups whose spirit you summon
Appeared in this room, right now, all of a 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

[Chorus]
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

[Outro]
Classical is modern
Returning is modern
If there's no vanguard revival
Then the vanguard never was