The Song of Life Art

Be water, my friend… Be water!
/Bruce Lee/

VERSE 1
If they should say:
Close the lids of your paints,
If they should lay
Take your paintbox away —
Leave colours open
And let them to spread…
Be colourful water…
Be water, my friend!

CHORUS:
Life is a beautiful thing — feel it!
Life is a colourful thing — see it!
Colour your life,
Painting your thrive!
Live is your masterpiece — Love it!

VERSE 2
If they should tell you —
Your art has no sense!
Don’t let mislead you!
Their hearts in absence!
Help paints to spread,
Mix them in courage splash! —
Be water, my friend —
Be water and a brush!

CHORUS:
Life is a beautiful thing — feel it!
Life is a colourful thing — see it!
Colour your life,
Painting your thrive,
Life is your masterpiece — Love it!

VERSE 3
If they will try
To make you believe:
No paints in life
And art apart of belief —
Just be always clean
For your life-painting voyage!
Be a paper, my friend —
The paper, water and the brush!

CHORUS:
Life is a beautiful thing — feel it!
Life is a colourful thing — see it!
Colour your life,
Painting your thrive,
Life is your masterpiece — Love it!

VERSE 4
If they will ask you
Where are colours in your life?
What is your task?
What helps you to survive?
Smiling them back
You’ll happy to say:
As you’re a colour yourself
In your life and in theirs!

CHORUS:
Life is a beautiful thing — feel it!
Life is a colourful thing — see it!
Colour your life,
Painting your thrive!
Live is your masterpiece — Love it!

VERSE 5
If they will force you:
“No way to explain
What’s sense of life!? —
The world is full of pain!”
Bring colours in their hearts,
Collect them from parts —
We are the Art of the Great Artist
And art tools for next Arts!

CHORUS
Live is a beautiful thing — feel it!
Live is a colourful thing — see it!
Colour your life,
In Christ you will thrive!
Live is your masterpiece — Live it!
You are God’s masterpiece — believe in it!


(c) Anastasia Konovalchuk

1) Russian version of this poem
http://stihi.ru/2023/07/17/6005