THE GREAT NEIL YOUNG GIVEAWAY
Posted on December 11th, 2009 by ekko
Who doesn’t like Neil Young?
Even if you’re a right winger, you have to admire the grit of a musician willing to go up against MTV back in the 1980s, the longevity of someone who sold records back when they are records and continues to move digital downloads, and the skill of a man who can craft pop songs, protest songs, and ballads that make you want to kill youself. And he walks the walk, too, with his work for the Bridge School and support for various other charitable and political causes.
Plus, he makes some damn fine music that everyone can love. Don’t like the heroin-induced desperation of “Helpless” or “Needle and the Damage Done”? Then turn to fast-paced rockers like “Mr. Soul,” “Like a Hurricane,” or “Rockin’ in the Free World.” Want something gentler? There’s “A Man Needs a Maid” and “Comes a Time.” Prefer your music protest-folky? Then he’s got “Ohio” and “Southern Man.” Want more violence? Check out “Down by the River” or “Powderfinger.” Prefer something that sounds more modern? Check out “Let’s Roll,” “This Note’s For You” or even “Cinnamon Girl”—an old song that’s timeless. Face it, I could spend a page writing about the man’s music.
It’s about giving you something really cool. Like a copy of “Dreaming Man,” a concert of Neil’s classic Harvest Moon album, drawn from solo acoustic shows of his 1992 tour. If you’ve never had the chance to hear him acoustic, it’s a treat. I’ve seen him twice and heard countless boots of it, and the ’92 tour is among his best work. Plus, the actual studio album relied on The Stray Gators band, but here you get to hear Neil working the songs out solo. I have two copies to give away. It’s in celebration of the 17-year anniversary of Harvest Moon.
Here are some .mov files from the label:
Purchase Dreamin Man here.
But the grand prize is Neil Young’s Archives, Volume 1. It’s 8 CDs recorded between 1963 up through 1972 (when he released Harvest—one of the greatest rock albums of all time). There’s stuff from Buffalo Springfield, CSN&Y, and plenty of Crazy Horse material. No, you’re not imagining this. I really have one to give away. I haven’t been blessed to hear it yet, but I’ve been told that the sound quality is a vast improvement over the original releases (much of the boxed set contains material that has previously been available elsewhere).
It’s like a starter-kit for a Neil Young fan who doesn’t own a lot of his early stuff—or who only has it on vinyl or audiotape (guilty!).
Another .mov file from the label:
HOW TO WIN:
Drop a comment with your e-mail and your favorite Neil lyric. Winners will be chosen at random in one week, and will be contacted by the e-mail in the comment. So if you leave out your e-mail, you can’t win. And if you don’t check your e-mail within 24 hours after I send you the “winner” notice, I’m moving on to the next guy. I’ve got one archives and two copies of Dreaming Man to offer, so your odds are looking pretty good here.
And how about a few covers to tide you over—or console you if you don’t win the giveaway?
Splendid Isolation-Neil Young and Warren Zevon (direct link)
Rockin in the Free World-Drive-By Truckers (direct link)
CONTEST CLOSED
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Comment By: brian pals
December 11th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Okay, I’ll jump in with one that always struck a chord here in the midwest:
“When I saw those thrashers rolling by,
Looking more than two lanes wide
I was feelin’ like my day had just begun…”
Comment By: KristofferAG
December 11th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
I guess being first doesn’t really help me, does it?
Anywho:
My favorite must be from Neil Young’s Don’t Let it Bring you Down.
“Don’t let it bring you down
It’s only castles burning,
Find someone who’s turning
And you will come around.”
Comment By: Maureen
December 11th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
My dad (biggest NY fan I know) made me listen to “Here For You” off of Prairie Wind before I left to study abroad for the year. Maybe not his best song, but it’s my favorite.
Listen to the sound
Of this old heart beating for you
Yes I’d miss you
But I never want to hold you down
You might say I’m here for you
Comment By: RC Steveson
December 11th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Too hard to pick just one favorite lyric but these lines from Helpless are pure poetry:
“Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.”
Comment By: RC Steveson
December 11th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
^
Oops. Sent it without the email…
evolutionbaby333@hotmail.com
Comment By: Travis McHolm
December 11th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Hey Neil Young rocks,In my opinion he is the greatest musician EVER!
Favorite lyric…
“Old man take a look at my life I’m a lot like you”
Comment By: Glen Yee
December 11th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
“He came dancing across the water…Cortez, Cortez…What a killer.”
best regards
Comment By: Rick
December 11th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Hate was just a legend,
And war was never known,
The people worked together,
And they lifted many stones.
Nice giveaway, ek. Thanks.
raven176 at msn dot com
Comment By: jefferson cosgrove
December 11th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
jdcos@windstream.net
Marlon Brando,Pocahontas and me
Comment By: Donald Teplyske
December 11th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Since someone else already mentioned Helpless, I’ll go with Powderfinger: So the Powers That Be left me here to do the thinkin’
And I just turned twenty-two
I was wonderin’ what to do
And the closer they got,
The more those feelings grew.
Thanks for the blog, the contest, and the efforts. Donald
Comment By: Chris
December 12th, 2009 at 4:40 am
Woke up this morning with love in mind
It was raining outside but my love still shined
Kept me warm till my plane touched the sky
Comment By: The Dawg
December 12th, 2009 at 5:40 am
Gotta be: I heard screamin’ and bullwhips cracking/how long how long how long how longgggg
chrisgarland23(at)comcast.com
Comment By: Mike Kylis
December 12th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Dogs that lick and dogs that bite
Hounds that howl through the night
Comment By: Eric
December 12th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Pardon my heart,
If I show that I care,
But I love you more than moments
We have or have not shared.
Comment By: Ken
December 12th, 2009 at 8:52 am
After all
the sin we’ve had
I was hopin’ that
we’d turn back
ken_sears37@msn.com
Comment By: Geoff
December 12th, 2009 at 10:47 am
From his time with Buffalo Springfield, but solo all the same:
“There you stood on the edge of your feather,
Expecting to fly.
While I laughed, I wondered whether
I could wave goodbye,
Knowin’ that you’d gone.”
geoff_the_first(at)yahoo(dot)com
Comment By: Max
December 12th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Love lost, such a cost,
Give me things
that don’t get lost.
Like a coin that won’t get tossed
Rolling home to you.
whatsgoodman45@gmail.com
Comment By: kimo wasabi
December 12th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
These lyrics remind me of what I need to do everytime:
One of these days,
I’m gonna sit down
and write a long letter
To all the good friends I’ve known
And I’m gonna try
And thank them all
for the good times together.
Though so apart we’ve grown.
Comment By: Ian Saunders
December 12th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Damn you, it’s just too hard to choose, nice prize dude, what about…
There’s still crime in the city
Said the cop on the beat
I don’t know if I can stop it
I feel like meat on the street
They paint my car like a target
I take my orders from fools
Meanwhile some kid blows my head off
Well, I play by their rules. Awesome. Cheers!
Comment By: Carol
December 12th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
I thought of these words when we were driving in the desert on vacation, en route from Tucson to Las Vegas…. Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.”
Comment By: Pat
December 12th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Well, I hear that Laurel Canyon
is full of famous stars,
But I hate them worse than lepers
and I’ll kill them in their cars.
pganley@gmail.com
Comment By: brenda helgeson
December 12th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
sweet caroline, good times never felt so good
Comment By: Dick Wallace
December 12th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Someone already mentioned a passage that contains my favorite line, but I’ll mention it anyway, because the line fits so well in the song, but I love it as a stand-alone couple of words:
“so the powers that be left me here to do the thinkin’”
Comment By: JoeG
December 12th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
My favorite Neil lyric? That’s a tough one, but if I had to pick just ONE song…
Tried to save the trees
Bought a platsic bag
The bottom fell out
It was a piece of crap
Saw it on the tube
Bought it on the phone
Now you’re home alone
It’s a piece of crap
I tried to plug in it
I tried to turn it on
When I got it home
It was a piece of crap
Got it from a friend
On him you can depend
I found out in the end
It was a piece of crap
I’m trying to save the trees
I saw it on TV
They cut the forest down
To build a piece of crap
I went back to the store
They gave me four more
The guy told me at the door
It’s a piece of crap
Comment By: steve whitehouse
December 12th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
my fave line is from BARSTOOL BLUES:
I SAW YOU IN MY NIGHTMARES
BUT I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS
I MIGHT LIVE A THOUSAND YEARS
BEFORE I KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS
I also play lead guitar in THE NEIL YOUNG’UNS
http://www.youtube.com/notshakeypictures
cheers
S
Comment By: JoeG
December 12th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Ok, I wrote my E-mail in the box but not in my comment, so I’ll do it here: knives2meetyou@yahoo.com
By the way, it’s PLASTIC, not platsic (which sounds like a description of how I type)
Comment By: Lisa H
December 12th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Bad News
Bad news is come to town
He’s walking
three feet off the ground
He’s ordering another round.
Bound by his own ideas,
Lost, doesn’t know
where she is found.
Comment By: ekko
December 12th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
That is NOT Neil Young.
Comment By: Scott S
December 12th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I was lying in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes
I was hoping for replacement
When the sun burst thru the sky
There was a band playing in my head
And I felt like getting high
I was thinking about what a friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie
Comment By: Kevin
December 13th, 2009 at 1:36 am
In the crowded streets
In the big hotels
In the mosques and the doors by the old museum
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
Try to remember Peace
(That last line strikes me every time. I’m trying, Neil.)
Comment By: Rusty Cat
December 13th, 2009 at 2:51 am
I think this will some it all up. Form ‘Campaigner’ by Neil.
I am a lonely visitor.
I came to late to cause a stir,
Though I campaigned all my life
towards that goal.
I hardly slept the night you wept
Our secret’s safe and still well kept
Where even Richard Nixon has got soul.
Comment By: cright
December 13th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Don’t let it bring you down/It’s only castles burning.
Comment By: Mitch
December 13th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
I’ll go with his “Rockin’ in the Free World” shot at Bush I:
“We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand”
Nice giveaway!
Comment By: Deedles
December 13th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
I’m a black bat, babe,
bangin’ on
your window pane
I’m a black bat, baby,
bangin’ on
your window pane.
Well, I’m a black bat, babe,
I need my high octane
Comment By: Joe
December 13th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
greast lyric from “See the Sky about to Rain”:
Some are bound for happiness
Some are bound for glory
Some are bound to live with less
Who will tell their story?
Comment By: David
December 13th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
It’s better to burn out
Than to fade away
- From My My, Hey Hey
Comment By: jamie
December 13th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Mississippi mud never touched her hands
california sand lies in her hands
Comment By: Dave
December 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
These have always stuck in my head from Rockin’ in the Free World:
There’s one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.
It’s the last line – is it there just because it rhymes, or does he really mean that?
Regards, Dave.
Comment By: dave mcfarlin
December 13th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Once I was in love, but now it seems that time is better spent searching than in finding
No one seems to know
Comment By: Stephen
December 13th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
From “Ambulance Blues”
I guess I’ll call it sickness gone
It’s hard to say the meaning of this song
An ambulance can only go so fast
It’s easy to get buried in the past
When you try to make a good thing last
spcuzzi171028@aol.com
Comment By: julianna
December 13th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Someday….you’ll find everything you’re looking for
Comment By: Tim
December 13th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
see the losers in the best bars, meet the winners in the dives!
Comment By: D Doolittle
December 13th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
the same thing that makes you live
can kill you in the end
Comment By: wardo
December 13th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
“You know it takes a long, long time.” — Peace Of Mind
Comment By: Mike C
December 13th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
From ‘Journey Through The Past’,
“I’ll stay with you if you’ll stay with me said the fiddler to the drum, and we’ll have good times on a journey through the past…When the winter rains come pouring down on that new home of mine, will I still be in your eyes and on your mind?
Comment By: onelesscar
December 13th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Here’s one I’ve always loved. Puts things in perspective, while simultaneously validating we’ve all got stuff to deal with:
“Though my problems are meaningless, that don’t make them go away.”
- from On the Beach
Comment By: Dan Monko
December 13th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
“got mashed potatoes, got mashed potatoes, aint got no t-bone, aint got no t-bone no teeebone”
Comment By: SL
December 13th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
“All the sailors
with their seasick mamas
Hear the sirens on the shore”
Comment By: Frank
December 13th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
“Could you tell that the empty quiver
Brown skinned Indian on the banks
That were crowded and narrow
Held a broken arrow”
-Broken Arrow
Comment By: Jonathan Criswell
December 13th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Ain’t got no T-Bone
Ain’t got no T-Bone
Got mashed potatoes
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Ain’t got no T-Bone
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Ain’t got no T-Bone
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Ain’t got no T-Bone
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T-Bone
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Ain’t got no T-Bone
Ain’t got no T-Bone
Ain’t got no T-Bone
Ain’t got no T-Bone
No T-Bone
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Ain’t got no T-Bone
Ain’t got no T-Bone
Ain’t got no T-Bone
Ain’t got no T-Bone
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Got mashed potatoes
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Ain’t got no T-Bone
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Ain’t got no T-Bone
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Ain’t got no T-Bone
Ain’t got no T-Bone
Ain’t got no T-Bone
(T-Bone) Off Re-ac-tor
27 Year Old Neil fan….
Comment By: Jonathan Criswell
December 13th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
T-Bone lyrics; (shakeyjrc@comcast.net) Thanks!
Comment By: mark
December 13th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
2nd verse from Music Arcade:
I was walkin down main street
Not the sidewalk but main street
Dodgin’ traffic with flyin’ feet
That’s how good I felt
Took a spin in the laundromat
Played a game in the music arcade
Kept winnin’ while the band played
That’s how good I felt
Thats how good I felt seeing Neil and Co. at Sheas (beautiful old theatre in Buffalo NY) in 2007. I know it was a long tour but don’t take too long a break Neil!
abeler2@yahoo.com
Comment By: Eric
December 14th, 2009 at 12:06 am
You have a great blog. Keep up the good work!
I can’t say that I have ever understood this song, but I love it live…..
“If I was a junkman
selling you cars,
Washing your windows
and shining your stars,
Thinking your mind
was my own in a dream
What would you wonder
and how would it seem?
Living in castles
a bit at a time
The King started laughing
and talking in rhyme.”
Comment By: Javier Razo
December 14th, 2009 at 12:08 am
“I’m a pauper in a naked disguise
A millionaire through a business man’s eyes”
from the song Don’t Be Denied, off the Time Fades Away lp.
Comment By: Peter Renshaw
December 14th, 2009 at 1:09 am
♬ Save the planet for another day / “Attention shoppers, buy with a conscience and save” / save the planet for another day / “Save Alaska! Let the caribou stay” / don’t care what the governments say / “They’re all bought and paid for anyway” / save the planet for another day / “hey Big Oil, what do you say?” ♬
Comment By: Keith Copas
December 14th, 2009 at 4:16 am
“Aurora Borealis…….
the icy sky at night,
The paddles cut the water,
In a long & hurried flight-
from the White Man; to the Fields of Green
In the Homeland…we’ve never seen.”
superkeith@earthlink.net
By the way….Jamie; it’s “Mississippi mud never touched her FINGERS” – not “hands”.
Keith
Comment By: Keith Copas
December 14th, 2009 at 4:20 am
And “California sand lies in her HAIR” – not HANDS, again. What’s with the “hands”?
Comment By: Gregory
December 14th, 2009 at 5:43 am
“See the losers in the best bars, meet the winners in the dives. Where the people are the real stars, all the rest of their lives.” – Sail Away
Comment By: dinosaur
December 14th, 2009 at 6:52 am
hey, hey, my, my
rock ´n roll can never die.
Comment By: jay loson
December 14th, 2009 at 7:16 am
“The punches came fast and hard
lying on my back in the school yard”
fairly self-evident. I can relate with 5 older brothers!
Comment By: Jeff charles
December 14th, 2009 at 8:08 am
I’ve always loved that first Neil solo LP and The Loner is one of the reason’s why. Like quite a few Canadian kid’s I was reading Scott Young’s books before Neil came on the scene. Little did I know that Neil lived two blocks north of me in the late 50′s prior to moving to Winnipeg and it was quite a surprise to read that he bought many of his records at the same shop I bought my first record at. I was 8 and the record was a 78 of Marty Robbins – The Hanging Tree.
The Loner
He’s a perfect stranger,
Like a cross
of himself and a fox.
He’s a feeling arranger
And a changer
of the ways he talks.
He’s the unforeseen danger
The keeper of
the key to the locks.
Know when you see him,
Nothing can free him.
Step aside, open wide,
It’s the loner.
Comment By: Marco
December 14th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Now that you made yourself love me
Do you think I can change it in a day?
Comment By: Alex
December 14th, 2009 at 10:00 am
“Don’t Be Denied” from Time Fades Away
Well, all that glitters isn’t gold
I know you’ve heard
that story told.
And I’m a pauper
in a naked disguise
A millionaire
through a business man’s eyes.
Oh friend of mine
Don’t be denied.
Comment By: Gabriel Legault
December 14th, 2009 at 11:12 am
“All this glitter isn’t gold
I know you’ve heard that story told
And I’m a pauper in a naked disguise
A millionaire through the businessman’s eyes”
From DON’T BE DENIED
Will he ever release this on cd?
Comment By: Aleksi
December 14th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Man made rules
been holdin’ back my love
Can’t hold it back no more.
Churches long preach sex is wrong
Jesus where is nature gone?
What am I doing here?
Comment By: Alex Grantham
December 14th, 2009 at 11:54 am
I see a girl in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away
Shes gonna get a hit
She hates her life and what shes done to it
Theres one more kid thatll never go to school
Never get to fall in love
Never get to be cool
Comment By: 4est
December 14th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
From Saddle up the Palomino:
It’s a cold bowl of chili
when love lets you down,
But it’s the neighbor’s wife
I’m after.
Saddle up the palomino,
the sun is going down.
The way I feel,
this must be real.
Comment By: Dylan
December 14th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
“Down by the river,
I shot my baby.”
stanley.dylan@gmail.com
Comment By: Vanessa Dougherty
December 14th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
This is fun! Here’s my favorite Neil Young lyric:
“When the winter rains
come pourin’ down
On that new home of mine,
Will you think of me
and wonder if I’m fine?
Will your restless heart
come back to mine
On a journey thru the past.
Will I still be in your eyes
and on your mind?”
Comment By: Ben Nye
December 14th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
“I heard a perfect echo die, into an anonymous wall of digital sound, somewhere deep inside of my soul”
Comment By: Bertrand Larde
December 14th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
hello there , it took me 5 seconds :’cause it means so much to me……….
“the road we used to ride
together side by side
Has flowers pushing through the dotted line”
WITHOUT WINGS from SILVER AND GOLD
Comment By: Drew Wasko
December 14th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
It doesn’t get much better than this…
And I still can hear him say:
You’re all just pissin’ in the wind
You don’t know it but you are.
And there ain’t nothin’ like a friend
Who can tell you you’re just pissin’ in the wind
Comment By: Jorge Montanez
December 14th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Last Trip To Tulsa
I was chopping down a palm tree
When a friend dropped by to ask
If I would feel less lonely
If he helped me swing the axe.
I said: No, it’s
not a case of being lonely
We have here,
I’ve been working on this palm tree
For eighty seven years
I said: No, it’s
not a case of being lonely
We have here,
I’ve been working on this palm tree
For eighty seven years
He said: Go get lost!
And walked towards his Cadillac.
I chopped down the palm tree
And it landed on his back.
jorge398@gmail.com
Comment By: Alan Grose
December 14th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Love is a rose but you better not pick it
It only grows when its on the vine
Hand full of thorns and you’ll know you missed it
You’ll lose your love when you say the word mine
alans2nde@yahoo.com Alan Grose Thanks!
Comment By: Steve Berto
December 14th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
You are like a hurricane
There’s calm in your eye.
And I’m gettin’ blown away
To somewhere safer
where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but
I’m getting blown away.
Steve Berto
slberto@comcast.net
Comment By: Gavin Sandry
December 15th, 2009 at 3:20 am
Look out mama theres a white boat coming up the river, with a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail, I think youd better call John, coz I dont think there here to deliver the mail.And its less than a mile away, I hope they didnt come to stay, Its got numbers on the sideand a gun, And its making big waves
Comment By: Elliot Hildner
December 15th, 2009 at 4:58 am
My favourit is:
“I’m not present
I’m a drug that makes you dream
I’m an aerostar
I’m a cutlass surpreme
In the wrong lane
Trying to turn against the flow
I’m the ocean
I’m the giant undertow
I’m the ocean
I’m the ocean”
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Comment By: Steven swatsworth
December 15th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Powderfinger- shelter me from the powder and the finger.cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger.just think of me as one you never figured.fade away so young,with so much left undone.remember me to my love I know I’ll miss her.
Comment By: Elliot Nicolson
December 15th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
“Thrasher”
~They were lost in rock formations, Or became park bench mutations
en142808@ohio.edu
Comment By: Scott Gordon
December 15th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
At 50 years old I find neil young to be one of the greatest “storytellers” of our era. I still have his album DECADE bought it new in 1977.
I have tried hard to single out one of many great song lyrics. but I choose the song Cowgirl in the sand because of the style thats indicative of Neils talents
Hello cowgirl in the sand
Is this place
at your command
Can I stay here
for a while
Can I see your
sweet sweet smile
Old enough now
to change your name
When so many love you
is it the same?
It’s the woman in you
that makes you want
to play this game.
Hello ruby in the dust
Has your band
begun to rust
After all
the sin we’ve had
I was hopin’ that
we’d turn back
Old enough now
to change your name
When so many love you
is it the same
It’s the woman in you
that makes you want
to play this game.
Hello woman of my dreams
This is not
the way it seems
Purple words
on a grey background
To be a woman
and to be turned down
Old enough now
to change your name
When so many love you
is it the same
It’s the woman in you
that makes you want
to play this game.
Comment By: Christian
December 16th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I never knew a man
could tell so many lies
He had a different story
For every set of eyes
How can he remember
Who he’s talking to
Cause I know it isn’t me
And i hope it isn’t you…
Comment By: Captain Midnight
December 17th, 2009 at 12:55 am
Besides Neil, my favorite act is The Beach Boys. So obviously, my favorite Neil lyric has got to be from “Long May You Run”:
Maybe The Beach Boys have got you now
With those waves singing “Caroline”
Rollin’ down that empty ocean road
Get into the surf on time.
Comment By: wendy wallach
December 17th, 2009 at 6:08 am
” Oh to live on sugar mountain with the barkers and the colored balloons”
madamerkf at aol dot com
Comment By: peach
December 17th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
“Hello ruby in the dust” I don’t really know what it is about that line but it gets me every time. My parents used to listen to Neil Young on all our driving trips through the desert when I was just a little kid. Such good times & good memories.
Comment By: ryan b
December 21st, 2009 at 10:33 pm
“it’s too dark to put the key in my ignition,
and the morning sun has yet to climb my hood ornament…”
ryanbaileymusic at yahoo.com