If you wanna know an answer, I can’t turn your life around
For I am just a painter passing through the underground.
If you wanna know my secret, don’t coming runnin’ after me
For I am just a painter passing through in history.
Lyrics from “A Painter Passing Through” by Gordon Lightfoot, 1998.
Photo by Rick Stachura. Interview prep by East River twilight. January 8, 2020.