Dan Bern Art on the Run lyrics

Take the best idea you got,

Sprouting from your brain like cauliflower

Stick it in the microwave

Leave it for a quarter of an hour

Write poems on the freeway

Write screenplays in between submitting faxes

Draw pictures at the Wendy's drive through window

On your way to do your taxes

Because you're not a child, you're not a child

Days flash by, like numbers on a TV dial

Forget that novel, man, could be

Haiku is more your style

Making art on the run art on the run

Ar-ar-art on the run

Art on the run, ar-ar-art on the run

Chopin in his Chevrolet and digital machine

Singing melodies while pumping gasoline

Picture Michelangelo with a briefcase and a beeper

When's the last time that you had a really good night's sleep?

Stick your canvas by your car phone,

Maybe paint a sailboat after lunch

I hear you wrote a sonnet,

One line every two days for a month
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Finish up that story,

You can get another napkin from the waiter

Put some clay inside your glove compartment

Maybe you can sculpt a little later

Shakespeare in the airport lobby drinking wine

Calculating how to pay his rent on time

Pack a lunch of liverwurst and half a dozen rhymes

Making Art on the run, art on the run

Art on the run, ar-ar-art on the run

Art on the run, ar-ar-art on the run

Mozart with his Casio and walkman and his pen

Tries to write an opera before the phone can ring again

Van Gogh painting greeting cards for a little extra cash

I’ll finish that thought later, now I really have to dash

Making art on the run

Art on the run, ar-ar-art on the run

Making art on the run

Art on the run, ar-ar-art on the run

Art on the run, ar-ar-art on the run

Art on the run, ar-ar-art on the run