Hippie Dream

Album: Landing On Water (1986)
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  • Take my advice
    Don't listen to me
    It ain't paradise
    But it used to be
    There was a time
    When the river was wide
    And the water came running down
    To the rising tide
    But the wooden ships
    Were just a hippie dream
    Just a hippie dream.

    Don't bat an eye
    Don't waste a word
    Don't mention nothin'
    That could go unheard
    'Cause the tie-dye sails
    Are the screamin' sheets
    And the dusty trail
    Leads to blood in the streets
    And the wooden ships
    Are a hippie dream
    Capsized in excess
    If you know what I mean.

    Just because it's over for you
    Don't mean it's over for me
    It's a victory for the heart
    Every time the music starts
    So please don't kill the machine
    Don't kill the machine
    Don't kill the machine.

    Another flower child goes to seed
    In an ether-filled room of meat-hooks
    It's so ugly
    So ugly. Writer/s: NEIL YOUNG
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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