Rooftop Dancer

(A song by Sidharth Vardhan,

first written on June 26, 2021)

I'm a rooftop dancer

I'm a street-side dancer

What you think of me

I don't care

I am weird

I am scared

I am crazy

Oh yes, extra crazy

I am a rooftop dancer

Late in nights,

Early in mornings

I dance on the rooftops

Singing along melodies

Or musical melancholia

Of tones in my earphones

Everyone thinks I am crazy

Aren't they right?

I am weird

I am scary

I am crazy

Oh yes, extra crazy

I am a rooftop dancer


Shadows dance with me

Grim reaper on my phone

Alone I am not lone

Alone I sing, dance and party

Crowds, they scare me

For I am weird

I am creepy

I am crazy

Oh yes, extra crazy

I am a rooftop dancer


I walk tipsy

And you laugh

For I don't lock my doors

Before unlocking my crazy

'Normal' bores me anyway

Lunatic I dream of planting

Roses in battlefields

And ask those crazy questions

Oh yes

So many crazy questions


Why be practical?

Why be reasonable?

Why be sensible?


Why be mean?

Why be clean?

Why finish anything?


Why not smile at strangers?

Why fear unknown dangers?

Why bother with rhyme?

Who cares if its a crime?


Why fight?

Why not be mad

And just scream

In the middle of the night?


What's fun in straight lines

Those big cars and tall housings?

I sleep under starry skies

In moonlit nights

Drunk on music, 'am

Weird, crazy, and happy

Oh yes, extra happy

For I am a rooftop dancer


But hey you!

The one in the corner

Are you alone and scared?

The broken, the misfit, the weird?

Then come dance with me

Come, come

Let's be awesome



Let them shake their heads

Those normal ones

They are prisoners of their ways

Of their reason, logic, and grammars

Of their gods and laws

Of their sobriety

And their practicalities

And who knows

What other rules books?

Not you, Not I

We know the magic of music

For we are the rooftop dancers

The crazy ones

The extra crazy ones



Copyright – Sidharth Vardhan



Tags:Craziness, music, Stars