 Genius Meanings
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Neil Young – Rockin’ in the Free World (Electric)
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Young’s angry indictment of society during the Bush Sr. Era.
The first verse is about the narrator’s every day experiences in society, ending with how they’ve affected him.
The
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Cortez the Killer
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Considered to be one of Neil Young’s most memorable songs as a solo artist, it is a seven minute piece largely dominated by a free-flowing guitar solo typical of Young’s early work
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Don’t Forget Love
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[Chorus] / Don't forget love / Don't forget love / Don't forget love / Don't forget love / Don't forget love / Don't forget love / [Verse 1] / When you're angry and you're lashing
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Cortez the Killer (Live Rust)
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[Verse 1] / He came dancing across the water / With his galleons and guns / Looking for the new world / In the palace in the sun / [Verse 2] / On the shore lay Montezuma / With his
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Neil Young – Natural Beauty
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[Verse 1] / On the roller coaster ride / That my emotions have to take me on / I heard a newborn baby cry through the night / I heard a perfect echo die / Into an anonymous wall of
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Neil Young – Don't Forget Love
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[Chorus] / Don't forget love / Don't forget love / Don't forget love / Don't forget love / Don't forget love / Don't forget love / [Verse 1] / When you're angry and you're lashing
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Buffalo Springfield – For What It's Worth
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“For What It’s Worth” is one of the most widely known protest songs of the 1960s. Recorded by Buffalo Springfield as a single, it was eventually released in 1967 on their self-
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Neil Young International Harvesters – Let Your Fingers Do the Walking (Live)
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[Verse 1] / In the days of covered wagons / A man had his own way / Whether talkin' to a woman / Or crossin' the U.S.A / No telephones were ringin' / No angry words exchanged / I
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Neil Young – Love and War
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[Verse 1] / When I sing about love and war / I don't really know what I'm saying / I've been in love and I've seen a lot of war / Seen a lot of people praying / They pray to Allah
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Neil Young – Peaceful Valley Boulevard
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The penultimate track on Young’s thirty-first studio album, Le Noise, Boulevard is a reverberating, seven minute track dedicated to describing the change of a idyllic landscape in
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Neil Young – Sign of Love
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[Verse 1] / When we go for a little walk / Out on the land / When we're just walking and holding hands / You can take it as a sign of love / When the winds of fate / Keep blowing
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Southern Pacific
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“Southern Pacific” tells the story of a conductor named Mr. Jones, who, after long years of train operation, begins to lose his sight and, so, also his job. It is the first track
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Neil Young + Promise of the Real – Change of Heart
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[Verse 1] / Talk to the people, they know the truth / Time don't mean nothing, it's the ways that you choose / To go on living inside your house / Or move a mountain, an elephant
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Neil Young – Walk With Me
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[Verse] / I feel your love, I feel your strong love / I feel the patience among conditional love / I feel a strength, I feel your faith in me / I'll never let you down no matter
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Cortez the Killer (Live Rust Bucket)
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[Intro: Guitar solo] / [Verse 1] / He came dancing across the water / With his galleons and guns / Looking for the new world / And that palace in the sun / [Verse 2] / On the shore
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Matthew Sweet (Ft. Amy Ray) – Cortez the Killer
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He came dancing across the water / With his galleons and guns / Looking for the new world / And [the] palace in the sun / On the shore lay montezuma / With his coca leaves and
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Neil Young – Ordinary People
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[Verse 1] / Two out of work models and a fashion slave / Try to dance away the Michelob night / The bartender poured herself another drink / While two drunks were watching the
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Sample and Hold
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[Intro] / Sample and Hold / Hair: Blonde / Eyes: Blue / Weight: 110 / Disposition: Even / Mood Code: Rotary Adjustable / [Chorus] / I need a unit to sample and hold / But not the
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer
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“The Boxer” is considered one of Paul Simon’s masterpieces, telling the story of a young boy who laments his poverty and then turning to that of a boxer.
It was first suggested
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Indigo Girls – Cortez The Killer
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He came dancing across the water / With his galleons and guns / Looking for a new world / And a palace in the sun / And on the shore lay montezuma / With it's coca leaves and
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Neil Young – Tonight’s the Night
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[Chorus] / Tonight's the night / Tonight's the night / Tonight's the night (Yes it is) / Tonight's the night / Tonight's the night / Tonight's the night / Tonight's the night
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Genius English Translations – Herms Niel - Erika (English Translation)
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[Verse 1] / On the heath, there blooms a little floret / And it's called Erika / Eagerly, hundred thousand little beelets / Swarm around Erika / For her heart is full of sweetness
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