Another - perhaps not quite so well known in the U.S. - would be Chris DeBurgh's "The Painter":
"I'd like you to meet my last queen, over there large as life She's been hanging there for almost a week, my poor late wife ..."
The lyrics go on to recount the tale of a romantic triangle involving a wealthy man, his wife and the painter hired to do her portrait. It ends ... badly.
no subject
"I'd like you to meet my last queen,
over there large as life
She's been hanging there for almost a week,
my poor late wife ..."
The lyrics go on to recount the tale of a romantic triangle involving a wealthy man, his wife and the painter hired to do her portrait. It ends ... badly.