Neil Young - The Painter lyrics

The painter stood before her work

She looked around everywhere

She saw the pictures and she painted them

She picked the colours 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 (2x).

She towed the line

She held her end up

She did the work of two men

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.

Green to green, red to red

Yellow to yellow in the light

Black to black when the evening comes

Blue to blue through the night.