Small fingers are covered in colors Dusty and light, but nonetheless bright She pats the cement And a smoke-like blur of colorful dust takes flight Scraping gentle arches with pieces of chalk on her driveway She hopes it won't rain Red orange yellow, green blue purple In awe of the rainbow she made She stares at the sky, and wonders why Can't we skip the storm to get to the good part? Must the good things, with the bad, be washed away? Is the rain really needed for a fresh start? Does the sky ever have to be gray? She knows in her heart, that if the art Is never cleared away Her drawings will spread, she knows in her head She'll run out of space one day Besides, the rain's the reason every tree around her grew Maybe old things must make way for the new Maybe every single color's indebted to blue She stares at the the sky, thinking of why We can't skip the storm to get to the good part And the good things, with the bad, must be washed away And rain is really needed for a fresh start At times the sky will have to be gray Small fingers are covered in colors Dusty and light, but nonetheless bright She pats the cement And a smoke-like blur of colorful dust takes flight Scraping gentle arches with pieces of chalk on her driveway She hopes it will rain So the sky can lift up her art And show the whole world the rainbow she made