Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble   Ancient footprints are everywhere   Well you could almost think that you're seein' double   On a cold dark night on the Spanish Stairs      Got to hurry on back to my hotel room   Where I've got me a date with Botticelli's niece   She promised, she'd be right there with me   When I paint my masterpiece      Oh, the hours I've spent inside the Coliseum   Dodging lions and wastin' time   Those mighty kings of the jungle, I could hardly stand to see 'em   Well, it sure has been a long hard climb      The train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory   When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese   Someday, life will be sweet like a rhapsody   When I paint my masterpiece      So I left Rome and I landed in Brussels   On a plane so bumpy that I almost cried   Clergymen in uniform, yes and young girl pullin' muscles   Well, it should have been a long hard ride      Newspapermen eating candy   Had to be held down by big police   Someday, everything is gonna be different   When I paint my masterpiece, that's right      Someday, everything is gonna be different   When I paint my masterpiece   When I paint my masterpiece