Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Jackson Browne
Canonical path: /jackson-browne/the-painter
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Painter
Read The Painter lyrics by Jackson Browne on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Painter
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We see him dancing in the morning
Stars depart the yawning sky
He'll take the hour that is passing
And leave it in his lover's eye
And if you want he'll make it seem
As though you're walking in his dream
A mystic sea
We hear him laughing in the shadows
As he smuggles in the sand
He's found another kind of color
In the magic he has donned
And if you want he'll take the time
To ask the sun and moon to rhyme
And then combine
He draws no lines between what he's imagining
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Jackson Browne performs "The Painter", and this lyric page sits inside the Jackson Browne catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to For Everyman and About my imagination with a short reason for opening each page next.
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