 Genius Meanings
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Down by the River
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Neil Young claims to have written this song, along with “Cinnamon Girl” and “Cowgirl in the Sand”, while delirious in bed in Topanga Canyon with a 103° F (39 °C) fever, as
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Medley: The Loner/Cinnamon Girl/ Down by the River
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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
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Neil Young – Ohio (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Tin soldiers and Nixon coming / We're finally on our own / This summer, I hear the drumming / Four dead in Ohio / [Chorus] / Gotta get down to it / Soldiers are cutting
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Low & Dirty Three – Down By The River
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Be on my side and I'll be on your side / There is no reason for you to hide / It's so hard for me staying here all alone / When you could be taking me for a ride / You take my hand
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Neil Young – Don't Let It Bring You Down
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[Verse 1] / Old man lying by the side of the road / With the lorries rolling by / Blue moon sinking from the weight of the load / And the buildings scrape the sky / Cold wind
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Jill Sobule (Ft. John Doe (X)) – Down By The River
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[Verse 1: Jill Sobule] / Be on my side / I'll be on your side / There's no reason for you to hide / It's so hard for me, staying here all alone / When you could be taking me for a
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Cinnamon Girl
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A punchy electric number, in which Neil yearns for an idealized trope of a woman (something which, itself, would become a trope in his lyrics), “Cinnamon Girl” is the first song on
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Bruce Springsteen – The River
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The title track to his fifth studio album, Springsteen’s “The River” invokes his sister’s early life with her husband, Mickey. Even if the instrumental (i.e. the use of the
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Neil Young – Down, Down, Down
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Come to see her in the river? / She'll be there to wave to you / In the hope that you'll forgive her / She will join you there / Find out that now was / The answer to answers
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Áron András – Oldman (Neil Young)
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Old man, look at my life / I'm a lot like you were / Old man, look at my life / I'm a lot like you were / Old man, look at my life / Twenty-four, and there's so much more / Live
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Slip Away
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[Verse 1] / She lives in the TV sky, she lives in such pain / She rides in a bulletproof stretch limousine / The smoke in the barroom nights, the faces in the window / The sound of
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Neil Young – Thrasher
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One of Neil Young’s most delicate and beautiful acoustic pieces, “Thrasher” appears on the acoustic half of his 1979 masterpiece album “Rust Never Sleeps.” While the album
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Neil Young – Runaround Babe (Elektra Audition 1965)
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[Chorus] / Run around babe / I'm only losing my mind / Run around babe / Don't try to be / Something you weren't meant to be / If you are not loving me / I'll know it's because
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Neil Young – Sugar Mountain
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Written by Young on his 19th birthday in 1964, the song is a lament to the loss of youth. (Young didn’t record the song until 1968.) It had such an effect on Joni Mitchell that she
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Neil Young – Cowgirl in the Sand (Live) [Royce Hall 1971]
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[Intro] / This is a song I wrote about a dream I had / I was walkin' down this beach / [Verse 1] / Hello, cowgirl in the sand / Is this place at your command? / Can I stay here for
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Neil Young (Ft. Graham Nash) – War Song
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“War Song” was written and released in support of the 1972 presidential campaign of George McGovern, who was running against incumbent Richard Nixon as the Democratic Party nominee
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Borislav Slavov – Down by the River
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“Down by the River”, composed and written by Borislav Slavov for the video game Baldur’s Gate III, is a piece with an ethereal, dream-like instrumentation and lyricism that is
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Buddy Miles – Down By the River
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Ooh, ooh... / Be on my side / I'll be on your side, baby / There is no reason / For you to hide / It's so hard for me / Staying here all alone / When you could be / Taking me for a
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Neil Young – The Bridge
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[Verse 1] / The bridge, we'll build it now / It may take a lot of time / And it may be lonely but / Ooh baby, ooh baby / The bridge was falling down / And that took a lot of lies
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – This Old Planet (Changing Days)
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[Verse 1] / Well, they say the autumn leaves don't fall in the springtime / It's just too soon and the time has come / But it's just too soon / [Chorus] / You're not alone on this
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Indigo Girls – Down By the River
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[Verse 1] / Be on my side, I'll be on your side / There is no reason for you to hide / It's so hard staying here all alone / You could be taking me for a ride / [Pre-Chorus] / (Ooh
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Neil Young (Ft. Dr. John, Richie Furay & Stephen Stills) – Down to the Wire
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Every time you touch her / Sets your hands on fire / And every thing you've got / Is all that she requires / And you hang on, hang on, hang on / To the words of a liar / You can
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Everything Everything – Don't Let It Bring You Down (Live at BBC Maida Vale)
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Everything Everything covered this classic song by Neil Young on Annie Mac’s show on BBC Radio 1 on the 25th of July, 2017. They released the cover as part of their EP “A Deeper
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Neil Young – Harvest Moon
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From his album of the same name, this song was written as a tribute to his wife, Pegi. The song celebrates longevity and fidelity in relationships, both in its lyrics and in a
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