Songs: Many Hearts

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You need pencillers
You need letterers
You need colourists
And you need editors
You need writers
You need inkers
Distributors, designers
And printers

All comics creation
Is collaboration
Drawn by many hearts
And that's true of all art

Every poet
Needs a muse
Every anchor
Needs the news
A director
Needs a script
Every pop star
Needs a hit

The act of creation
Is collaboration
Born by many hearts
And that's true of all art

Idiots will tell you
Art cannot
Be made by committee
But they're wrong
All art throughout history
Has been made
By these groups of people
Who will say

The act of creation
Is collaboration
Born by many hearts
And that's true of all art

So if someone
States their genius
Here’s a truth that's
Inconvenient
Even if you
Are the star
You're not the engine
You're a part

Auteurs and solo artists
Don't exist
They're just egomaniacs
Who can't admit

The act of creation
Is collaboration
Forged from many parts
And that's true of all art

Published by Wipe Out Music Publishing

This might be the song in Data and Doctor Doom that is closest to my OWN heart, for LO! it is something what I have through about A LOT. The line that says "Idiots will tell you art cannot be made by committee" sits alongside a slide of THE BEATLES, and originally there was going to be a big bit in the show there talking about how The Beatles WERE a committee and all of the wonderous ART they created was done through collaboration, not via one Privileged Genius as your Trad Critics would like to say. However, that went on for about twenty minutes and had 0 to do with the actual show so sadly had to be cut out. It's in my HEAD though when I sing it!