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Artist: Neil Young
Canonical path: /neil-young/stringman
Related lyric paths: 6
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Stringman
Read Stringman lyrics by Neil Young on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Stringman
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You can say the soul is gone
And the feeling is just not there
Not like it was so long ago
On the empty page before you
You can fill in what you care
Try to make it new before you go
Take the simple case of the sarge
Who can't go back to war
'Cause the hippies
Tore down everything
That he was fighting for
Or the lovers on the blankets
That the city turned to whores
With memories
Of green kissed by the Sun
You can say the soul is gone
And close another door
Just be sure
That yours is not the one
And I'm singing for the stringman
Who lately lost his wife
There is no dearer friend of mine
That I know in this life
On his shoulder rests a violin
For his head where chaos reigns
But his heart
Can't find a simple way
To live with all those things
All those things
He's a stringman
A stringman
All those strings to pull
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Neil Young performs "Stringman", and this lyric page sits inside the Neil Young catalog on LyroVerse.
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