The painter stood before her work
She looked around everywhere
She saw the pictures and she painted them
She picked the colors 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

Its a long road behind me
Its a long road ahead
If you follow every dream
You might get lost
If you follow every dream
You might get lost

She toed 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 South
Some of them are with me now
Some of them can't be found

Its 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

 JOHN HIATT: When My Love Crosses Over

We made a pact lying there on our backs
Swearing to every star that the sky did hold
Promising our love was true, promising to see it through
Then we headed due Southwest across the Muscle Shoals

We slid down a riverbank in the pouring rain giving thanks
For the strength just to carry on through the fog and the cold
There at the water's edge she tugged my arm and I nodded my head
Just one more step and that river took a hold

When my love crosses over I'm coming over too
To cross that mighty river that's before us
To the new western world mountains high and plain unfurled
Desert stretching out to touch the Californias

We said we'd never look back, we never have and that's a fact
That Mississippi washed us clean down to the bone
The journey's been long my friend, hell, you never know what state you're in
Yeah, but the unknown it's always the unknown

When my love crosses over I'm coming over too
To cross that mighty river that's before us
To the new western world mountains high and plain unfurled
Desert stretching out to touch the Californias

I lost track of you a while but you were waiting for me with a smile
Made me feel like a little child with a brand new view
Let's do it all over babe, it'd just be another trip we made
When my love crosses over I'm coming too