Neil Young
Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation.
Old man take a look at my life
I'm a lot like you.
I need someone to love me
The whole day through.
Ah, one look in my eyes
And you can tell that's true.
You're all just pissin' in the wind,
You don't know it but you are.
I've been flyin' down the road,
And I've been starvin' to be alone,
Independent from the scene that I've known.
Live music is better! Bumper stickers should be issued!
Welfare mothers make better lovers.
Well, all those people, they think they've got it made,
But I wouldn't buy, sell, borrow or trade
Anything I have to be like one of them.
I'd rather start all over again.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
There is a town in north Ontario,
With dream comfort memory to spare,
And in my mind I still need a place to go,
All my changes were there.
You can really learn a lot that way,
It will change you in the middle of the day,
Though your confidence may be shattered,
It doesn't matter.
Shelter me from the powder
And the finger
Cover me with the thought
That pulled the trigger
Think of me
As one you'd never figured
Would fade away so young
With so much left undone.
I have seen you in the movies,
And in those magazines at night.
I saw you on the barstool,
When you held that glass so tight.
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.
Will I see you give
More than I can take?
Will I only harvest some?
As the days fly past
Will we lose our grasp
Or fuse it in the sun?
If you guarantee the postage, I'll mail you back the key.