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BUT - Attributed to Gustave Courbet, Study of a Nude Man, early 1840s, oil on canvas, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/848137.

THERE'S - couldn't find this one yet! if anyone has any leads, feel free to chime in/let me know!

SHIT - Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field, 1865, oil on canvas, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11145.

and since this painting has been featured pretty prominently in other visuals for lltbp, I’ll include its description from The Met:  “Completed in 1865 … this symbolic painting embodies the tension between grief and hope after the Civil War. A discarded Union Army jacket and canteen in the lower right corner identify the farmer as a veteran, and the ‘new field’ of the title reminds us of his old one, the battlefield. This return to peaceful pursuits echoes the biblical passage from Isaiah 2:4, ‘They shall beat their swords into plowshares.’ While the bountiful harvest signifies renewal and recovery, the single-bladed scythe evokes the Grim Reaper.”

THAT - Drawings Showing Combat on Foot (Champ Clos), German, 16th century, pen, ink, and watercolor on paper, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/34014.

I'VE - don't really know how to go about finding this one, but maybe someone out there might have better luck than I did

DONE - Petrus Christus, Portrait of a Carthusian, 1446, oil on wood, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435896.

WITH - a detail of the eye from the same painting as above! (I do actually wish they had chosen to highlight the trompe-l’oeil fly at the bottom instead...it'd obviously fit the song pretty damn well)

THIS - Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47), 1527, steel, gold, leather, and copper alloys, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/22741.

FUCK - Francesco Guardi, The Villa Loredan, Paese, early 1780s, oil on canvas, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438116.

OF - Anonymous, after Raffaello Schiaminossi, Plate 1: Julius Caesar looking to the right, from 'The Twelve Caesars', 1610-40, etching and engraving, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/649484.

A - W.L. Germon and W. Penny, [Family Portrait], ca. 1855, salted paper prints with applied media, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/263070.

GUN - at a loss here, somehow. I feel like I must be overlooking something obvious.

YOU - Launch of Minuteman laser-guided missile 30,  Nov. 23, 1981, National Archives, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6364435.

WOULD - no clue on this one either. art history is my strong suit, I don't know jack shit about military stuff...the fact that I managed to find the last pic was already kind of a miracle

CRY - another mystery! anyone with a special interest in trains, please lend me your power

OUT - just a stock photo, originally uploaded here!

YOUR - Avram Finkelstein and Donald Moffett, Fact or Fiction, 1989, color photo-offset lithograph, printed in black and red inks, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/786126.

EYES - Vienna Boys Choir, Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel, compiled 1948-67, National Archives, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/20001158.

ALL - same problem that I had with the vintage cookout photo from earlier...hit a bit of a wall with these

ALONG - Photograph of Lem A. Ward Putting on Make-Up, Federal Theater Project Central Files, compiled 1935-9, Records of the Work Projects Administration, National Archives, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24200212.