Amsterdam Lonely

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Smoke

Got my guitar case wide open
Singin’ “Nowhere Man” to no one at all
People look right through me
Just a modern echo on an ancient wall

Weekends I go to the Van Gogh
I choose a painting and I write a song
Art is timeless, a word that lingers
In a ‘Verse that goes on and on

Walk along the river and stop at a hash bar
Sit in the corner and drift away
Feeling so Amsterdam lonely
Miss my baby in LA

Refrain:
Oh Amsterdam
Oh Amsterdam
You got me runnin’
You got me writin’
You got me feelin’
God, I am alive
You know I am, I am alive
You know I am, I am alive
You know I am, I am alive

Van Gogh is darkness in bright color
Rembrandt character in candlelight
I hang my pictures of words and music
In galleries of long and thoughtful nights

I chase canals into the moonlight
To a place where the water runs free
And windmills spin dreams in the darkness
As the lighthouse paints the sea

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