Paint It a Mellow Blue

There's a pair of eyes tonight looking down from the city sky Like the eyes of a lover that knows when you're not true There's a fire in the hills tonight a faraway flame burning bright When I see that flame so much like your heart I know there will never be another quite like you, no other quite like you My friends are scattered far and wide, Minnesota to the Great Divide They're in my dreams and I pray i'm in theirs too The only thing there is is love Everything else is just fragments in a broken mirror Day by day your childhood mind, you leave it farther behind And all the while the sun keeps getting near, the sun keeps getting nearer Saturday my favorite day, I walk to the fields and play It frees my mind from the vines and the merciless mire So many things I never meant to say A lot of weight pushed against the grain But the river you know it only flows one way, it only flows one way The river bends toward it's goal, to the sea or so i'm told So I'll ride that river until my days are through Together we walk this weary world Hand in hand boy meets girl You were meant for me and I was meant for you Lord knows I was meant for you And her heart is pure and clean, dancing through a dreamer's dream And no other heart on earth could be more true Like a locomotive runs on steam, she moves through me and it seems She could take all the pain in the world and paint it blue Paint it a mellow blue...paint it a mellow blue...paint it a mellow blue