Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Paul Anka
Canonical path: /paul-anka/the-painter
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Painter
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The Painter
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The painter paints away the day
as he paints his life away
will he rise in judgement's eyes or fall ?
what a humble life he lives / he never sees the price they give / another part of his soul upon the wall / * like a lonely soldier faces / foreign shores and empty spaces / such as he who strkes to free his soul / isolation steeped in sadness / mellowed by the fears of madness / there he stands as he commands control / deeper than the eye can see / another man's philosophy
while he lives, the price they give is small
when he dies and on that day
the sky's as high a price they'll pay
while he lives, the price they give is small
while he lives, the price they give is small.
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Who performs "The Painter"?
Paul Anka performs "The Painter", and this lyric page sits inside the Paul Anka catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to It Doesn't Matter Anymore and It's A Sin with a short reason for opening each page next.
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