Genius Lyrics
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Neil Young – Ambulance Blues
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The last song on Neil Young’s 1974 album On the Beach is purposely oblique in several places. Even Neil acknowledges, “It’s hard to say the meaning of this song.” But while that
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You're all just pissing in the wind / You don't know it but you are / And there ain't nothing like a friend / Who can tell you you're just pissing in the wind / 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? / Because I know it ain't me and I hope it isn't you
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This part is sung by Craig Finn, known for the Hold Steady and Lifter Puller.
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Neil Young – Revolution Blues
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This song is a harrowing, spooky comment on the murders committed by crazed hippie Charles Manson and his cult of followers in 1969.
The song features Rick Danko and Levon Helm of
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Neil Young – On the Beach (Live)
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[Intro] / Watch out Stephen, here I come / [Verse 1] / The world is turning / I hope it don't turn away / The world is turning / I hope it don't turn away / All my pictures are
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Neil Young – Motion Pictures (Live)
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[Intro] / This is another new one / I know you haven't heard a lot of these songs / I haven't had a chance to sing 'em for people, so / This is a song right here, um / A song I
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Neil Young – Vampire Blues
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[Verse 1] / I'm a vampire, baby, sucking blood from the earth / I'm a vampire, baby, sucking blood from the earth / Well, I'm a vampire, baby, sell you twenty barrels worth / [
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R.E.M. (Ft. Neil Young) – Country Feedback (Live at the Bridge School Concert)
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / This flower is scorched, this film is on / On a maddening loop / These clothes / These clothes don't fit us right / And I'm to blame
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Neil Young – Roll Another Number (For the Road) [Live at the Bottom Line]
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[Intro] / Country western? / Wanna hear a country song? / This song's a little novelty tune / All you country singers, I want you to sing along in the choruses / You'll pick it up
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Neil Young – Helpless (Live)
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[Intro] / It's real nice to be here tonight / I hope everybody's feeling good / This song here means a lot to me, 'cause, uh / I got a— a note from a— from a passing friend of mine
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Neil Young – Pushed It Over the End (Live)
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[Intro] / Ladies and gentlemen / The Bottom Line is pleased to welcome as its special guest / Neil Young / I'd like to start with a kind of a quiet song / It's called, um / Um, it'
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Neil Young – Long May You Run (Live)
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[Intro] / I'd like to thank Mr. Redbone for lending me his B flat harmonica tonight / I like that sweet smell coming from the audience, too / Here's a song I wrote for my, uh / I
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Neil Young – Dance Dance Dance (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Never thought love had a rainbow on it / Used to think a cloud was a nightmare / That was up until when I first met you / Now I go around hoping you care / [Chorus
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Neil Young – Motion Pictures (For Carrie)
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[Verse 1] / Motion pictures on my TV screen / A home away from home and I'm living in between / But I hear some people have got their dream / I've got mine / [Verse 2] / I hear the
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Neil Young – For the Turnstiles
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This song is about being a struggling touring band: leaving their (seasick) girlfriends at home, following in the footsteps of previous musicians who have made it (great explorers
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Neil Young – L.A. Girls and Ocean Boys
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[Verse 1] / We used to be so calm / Now I think of you all night long / 'Cause you've been with another man / There you are and here I am / [Verse 2] / And I know we should be free
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Neil Young – Walk On
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Neil Young: “My own defensive reaction to criticisms of "Tonights the Night” and the seemingly endless flow of money coming my way from you people out there."
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Neil Young (Ft. The Stray Gators) – Heart of Gold (Live from Tuscaloosa)
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[Verse 1] / I want to live, I want to give / I've been a miner for a heart of gold / It's these expressions I never give / That keep me searchin' for a heart of gold / And I'm
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Neil Young – Greensleeves
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Alas my love I do you wrong / By treating me discourteously / But I have loved you oh so long / Delighting in your company / Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my
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Neil Young – Monday Morning
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“Monday Morning” is a demo recording made on November 15, 1972. It is an early version of the song “Last Dance”, which was part of the set list in the upcoming 1973 tour, the first
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Neil Young – Frozen Man
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[Verse 1] / When anger has closed the door / My eyes go blind and I can only see behind / And I drown myself some more / Cool water is what I need / And time and space to help me
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Neil Young – See the Sky About to Rain
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[Chorus] / See the sky about to rain / Broken clouds and rain / Locomotive, pull the train / Whistle blowing through my brain / Signals curling on an open plain / Rolling down the
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Neil Young – One More Sign
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[Verse 1] / No, I'm not gonna hide my feelings / Couldn't if I tried / No, I'm not holding them inside / Holding back is so close to stealing / Though we both have pride / We could
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Neil Young (Ft. The Stray Gators) – The Last Trip to Tulsa (Live Baton Rouge 1973)
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[Verse 1] / Well, I used to drive a cab, you know / I heard a siren scream / I pulled over to the corner and I fell into a dream / There were two men eating pennies / And three
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Neil Young – Through My Sails
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[Verse 1] / Still glaring from the city lights / Into paradise I soared / Unable to come down / For reasons I'd ignored / Total confusion, disillusion / New things I'm knowing / Ah
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Neil Young – Bad News Comes to Town
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[Verse 1] / Bad news has come to town / And is walking three feet off the ground / He's ordering one more round / Bound by his own ideas / Lost, doesn't know where she is found / [
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Neil Young (Ft. The Santa Monica Flyers) – Everybody’s Alone
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[Verse 1] / If you're lookin' for me / You'll find me resting in the shade / Of the mountains and trees / Beneath the cool summer breeze / And I don't mind if you stay / 'Cause
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Neil Young – Human Highway (4/15/76)
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[Verse 1] / I come down from the misty mountain / I got lost on the human highway / Take my head, refreshing fountain / Take my eyes from what they've seen / [Refrain] / Take my
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Neil Young – Letter from ’Nam
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“Letter from ‘Nam” is a demo recording made on November 15, 1972. It is an early version of the song “Long Walk Home”, that was part of the 1987 album Life.
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Neil Young – Homefires
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[Harmonica Intro] / [Verse 1] / I'm not the same man I was a while ago / I've learned some new things, I hope that it shows / I'm free to give my love / But you're not the one I'm
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Neil Young (Ft. Joni Mitchell & The Santa Monica Flyers) – Raised on Robbery
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[Intro] / He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire Hotel / Drinking for diversion and thinking for himself / A little money riding on the Maple Leafs / Along comes a lady in lacy
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Neil Young (Ft. The Stray Gators) – Goodbye Christians on the Shore
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“Goodbye Christians on the Shore” was recorded in a December 15, 1972 session that took place shortly before the start of Neil Young’s 1973 North American tour. Not only was this
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Neil Young – Midnight on the Bay (4/14/76)
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[Verse 1] / It's midnight on the bay / And lights are shinin' / And the sailboats sway / And that cool ocean breeze / Blowin' down through the keys / I think I'll call it a day / [
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Neil Young – Daughters
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[Verse 1] / On the streets where the streetcars are squeaking through the morning / The flags that are raised start to wave / Goodbye to the old people gathered by warnings / I
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Neil Young – On the Beach
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In this song, Young addresses a recurring theme for him: his love-hate relationship with his audience and the alienation caused by fame, and how he deals with its trappings. At the
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Neil Young – Sweet Joni
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[Verse] / Sweet Joni from Saskatoon / There's a ring for your finger / It looks like the sun / But it feels like the moon / Sweet Joni from Saskatoon / Don't go, don't go too soon
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