Sidewalk Van Gogh

from Dancing Now by David Hakan

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lyrics

Sidewalk Van Gogh
C/G G
I dreamed I was rubbed on a sidewalk in town
C/G G
by a young student artist with some chalk she had found.
C D G Em
She transformed that curbside of broken concrete
C Dsus4 D
to the walls of a mansion at everyone's feet.
As a sidewalk chalk painting, I felt pretty new.
I bragged of my yellows and nursed all my blues.
She said, “Yes, you're done now.” and wouldn't you know
she looked down and smiled at her sidewalk Van Gogh.
C D G Em
I'm only a sketch in a great painter's book.
C/G G D
and not many souls ever take a look.
C G C Bm
But my light and my shadow are all that I know.
C/G G D G D2-C-D2
I'm only a painter's sidewalk Van Gogh.

People would stop and take some pleasure away,
or a new shade of truth in a personal way.
She gave kids her chalk. They added some greens.
Dog and cats pawed printed over my scenes.
A poet penned a couplet right under my frame.
A circle of passerbys guessed at my name.
It wasn't a bad life as those things go,
Some footprints and compliments as a sidewalk Van Gogh.
refrain
Em D
But as dreams often do, this sky turned to black.
C Dsus4 D2
My life was so fragile and under attack.
Sidewalk Van Gogh page 2
The thunder was closer. Rain began drumming.
This storm was my end, but we all have that coming.
Each raindrop took some piece and washed me away.
My sidewalk was turning its yesterday gray.
Those kids gathered mud and sticks and made a big dam,
and held back my chalk water and round me they ran.
My last colors swirled like a kaleidoscope.
They looked down and laughed at their sidewalk Van Gogh.
refrain
Words And Music By David B. Hakan 5-11-96
© 2000 David B Hakan All Rights Reseved

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