Hippie Dream - Neil Young/Promise of the Real

Written by：Neil Young

Take my advice

Take my advice

Don't listen to me

Don't listen to me

It ain't paradise

It ain't paradise

But it used to be

But it used to be

There was a time

When the river was wide

There was a time

And the water came running down

When the river was wide

To the rising tide

But the wooden ships

Were just a hippie dream

Just a hippie dream

Don't bat an eye

Don't bat an eye

Don't waste a word

Don't waste a word

Don't mention nothing

Don't mention nothing

That could go unheard

That could go unheard

Because the tie dye sails

Are the screaming sheets

Because the tie dye sails

And the dusty trail

Are the screaming sheets

Leads to blood in the streets

And the wooden ships

Just a hippie dream

Capsized in excess

Just a hippie dream hippie dream hippie dream

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

Don't kill the machine

Don't kill the machine

Don't kill the machine

Don't kill the machine

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

It's so ugly

See hippie dream

Kill machine

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