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Artist: Neil Young
Canonical path: /neil-young/the-painter
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Painter
Read The Painter lyrics by Neil Young on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Painter
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The painter stood
Before her work
She looked around every where
She saw the pictures and she painted them
She picked the colors from the air
Green to green
Red to red
Yellow to yellow
In the light
Black to black
When the evening comes
Blue to blue
In the night
It's a long road
Behind me
It's a long road
Ahead
If you follow every dream
You might get lost
If you follow every dream
You might
Get
Lost
She towed the line
She held her end up
She did the work of too many
But in the end
She fell down
Before she got up again
I keep my friends eternally
We leave our tracks in the sound
Some of them are with me now
Some of them can't be found
It's a long road behind me
And I miss you now
If you follow every dream
You might get lost
If you follow every dream
You might
Get
Lost
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Neil Young performs "The Painter", and this lyric page sits inside the Neil Young catalog on LyroVerse.
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