[ti:Stringman] [ar:Neil Young] [al:Chrome Dreams] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Stringman - Neil Young [00:11.71]Written by:Neil Young [00:23.42]You can say the soul is gone [00:27.80]And the feeling is just not there [00:34.51]Not like it was so long ago [00:44.07]On the empty page before you [00:49.43]You can fill in what you care [00:55.91]Try to make it new before you go [01:05.69]Take the simple case of the serge [01:11.80]Who can't go back to war [01:16.95]Cause the hippies tore down everything that he was fighting for [01:27.82]Or the lovers on the blankets [01:33.39]That the city turned to whores [01:39.96]With memories of green kissed by the sun [01:50.98]You can say the soul is gone [01:56.23]And close another door [02:01.69]Just be sure that yours is not the one [02:11.29]And I'm singing for the string man [02:16.86]Who lately lost his wife [02:22.25]There is no dearer friend of mine [02:27.50]That I know in this life [02:32.41]On his shoulder rests a violin [02:37.73]For his head where chaos reigns [02:43.13]But his heart can't find a simple way [02:48.67]To live with all those things [02:56.89]All those things [03:02.19]He's a string man [03:08.19]A string man [03:12.65]All those strings to pull