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Well, I dreamed I saw the knights
In armor coming,
Saying something about a queen.
There were peasants singing and
Drummers drumming
And the archer split the tree.
There was a fanfare blowing
To the sun
That was floating on the breeze.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
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.
Thinking about what a
Friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie.
Well, I dreamed I saw the silver
Space ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun,
There were children crying
And colors flying
All around the chosen ones.
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun.
They were flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home.
In armor coming,
Saying something about a queen.
There were peasants singing and
Drummers drumming
And the archer split the tree.
There was a fanfare blowing
To the sun
That was floating on the breeze.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
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.
Thinking about what a
Friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie.
Well, I dreamed I saw the silver
Space ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun,
There were children crying
And colors flying
All around the chosen ones.
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun.
They were flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home.
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: May 02, 2013 - 23:57 Very nice music, words, voice ,arrangement ,(yes, also the voice fits in the whole production). |
| linzie | Posted: May 02, 2013 - 23:54 I wanna be Neil Young in my next life.... |
| walkerpub (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) | Posted: Apr 01, 2013 - 20:39 winotron wrote: One of my favorite Neil songs. Always wished it didn't have the line "...and I felt like getting high", though. Nothing against getting high... just think it's a pretty lame lyric. One of Neil's most intimate sounding songs though... so still a 10! if you read his bio, you'll know he did feel like getting high! |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Apr 01, 2013 - 20:34 Cynaera wrote: Totally agree. And he could switch out the "Poignant" with "Asshole." No, not my opinion, but he's very outspoken so a lot of people probably think of him as an asshole. (John Mellencamp refers to himself as "The Little Bastard" because he's fully aware of how some people view him.) Mr. Young has more than earned his stripes in the music business. He's made enemies because of his outspoken viewpoints, but he's also embraced a huge and loyal following (of which I am a staunch member.) I will always love Neil Young's music, because during a time when I didn't know who I was or what was expected of me or even what I wanted for my life, his music guided me. And now I am an anti-government, anarchistic rebel with a stockpile of food and a paranoia of anyone who offers something that looks too good to be true. Okay, can't blame Neil Young for that, but he opened the door...  Miss you so much, Cynaera... love this classic song... |
| Sjaaks | Posted: Mar 20, 2013 - 02:15 mrdak wrote: If you hate this voice, you must be one horrible m*f*! I'll take being one horrible m#f# over having a voice like Neil's* any day! *that's when he's singing songs like this...  |
| Kay4Bee (Brentford, England) | Posted: Mar 20, 2013 - 02:09 Love the song, hate this version. |
| Jacquetta (Kelowna, BC) | Posted: Mar 01, 2013 - 09:45 BWGunner wrote: Geh. I'm sure I should appreciate this song for some reason...likely something Dillonesque, but frankly it's just grating.  |
| pk53 (Sonoma County) | Posted: Feb 16, 2013 - 17:06 you just had to be there (in the 70s), preferably in your late teens or 20s....then. The line makes all the sense in the world!! |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Feb 16, 2013 - 16:55 I am starting to not hate him so much. 7 |
| BazH (www) | Posted: Jan 29, 2013 - 02:16 BWGunner wrote: Two things make Radio Paradise a touch dystopian. Neil Young and Santana. Thank you, Bill for the PSD. Geh. I'm sure I should appreciate this song for some reason...likely something Dillonesque, but frankly it's just grating. U2 and Tom Petty. |
| Antigone (A house, in a Virginian Valley) | Posted: Jan 16, 2013 - 09:39 Antigone wrote: I wanted to be a poet because of Neil Young, and Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell, etc. I'm just a pale imitation, but it's the striving that counts.  Still striving. |
| BWGunner (Midwest, always the midwest) | Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 08:59 Two things make Radio Paradise a touch dystopian. Neil Young and Santana. Thank you, Bill for the PSD. Geh. I'm sure I should appreciate this song for some reason...likely something Dillonesque, but frankly it's just grating. |
| Chi_Editrix (Chi) | Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 08:56 Oh yeah, this. "Helpless" and this. |
| mistabird (frei republik allgäu) | Posted: Nov 14, 2012 - 15:37 danke , paßt gerade ganz gut |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Oct 14, 2012 - 07:05 Thank you ! |
| rockpommel16 (rockpommel´s land...dreaming of netherlands) | Posted: Sep 25, 2012 - 12:42  |
| GalileoCoffeeCo | Posted: Sep 25, 2012 - 12:41 Awesome✌✌✌ |
| winotron (Phoenix, AZ) | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 17:46 One of my favorite Neil songs. Always wished it didn't have the line "...and I felt like getting high", though. Nothing against getting high... just think it's a pretty lame lyric. One of Neil's most intimate sounding songs though... so still a 10! |
| tonypf (Honolulu) | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 17:46 mrdak wrote: If you hate this voice, you must be one horrible muthafucka! Hate to say it, but that cracked me up! |
| mrdak (Middle GA) | Posted: Aug 12, 2012 - 06:16 oooresultooo wrote: I HATE this horrible voice!!! If you hate this voice, you must be one horrible muthafucka! |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 14:32  |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Jul 11, 2012 - 19:46 It's got to the point where I listen for the French horn section and tune out the rest. |
| idiot_wind | Posted: May 22, 2012 - 08:19 I was lying in a burned out basement.... Wow. wow, wow. The trippy lyrics, the solo piano, the french horn. Nobody, I mean nobody today is even trying to take risks like this. Too bad. |
| oooresultooo (Miami, FL) | Posted: May 22, 2012 - 08:17 I HATE this horrible voice!!! |
| On_The_Beach (The Blue Planet) | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 20:52 lemmoth wrote: Dude - with all the hate thrown at our man Bono, how can you throw the hate at Neil. Love 'em both man because they write, play and sing great songs. Period. Thank you, lemmoth. For someone who whines about all the hate U2 receives, he sure throws a lot of his own around. |
| linzie | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 14:53 GreggH wrote: This guy proves that tone deaf people like music too. ...atta boy, turn it UP  |
| linzie | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 14:50 MiracleDrug wrote: his voice could be used to extract confessions of war crimes... Who's voice sounds better to you....Milli, or Vanilli?? |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 14:48 MiracleDrug wrote: his voice could be used to extract confessions of war crimes... Dude - with all the hate thrown at our man Bono, how can you throw the hate at Neil. Love 'em both man because they write, play and sing great songs. Period. |
| stub30 (East Wenatchee) | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 14:48 Some really great songs Bill on this beautiful Friday afternoon. Hard to get any work done. |
| GreggH | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 14:47 This guy proves that tone deaf people like music too. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 14:47 Can't wait to hear Patti Smith's take on this on your forthcoming album. |
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 14:46 Byronape wrote: My father always says that "A healthy paranoia has never killed anyone, but lack of a healthy paranoia has." My dad is a redneck Buddah. Yeah, well, just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me. |
| hayduke2 (Southampton, NY) | Posted: Apr 07, 2012 - 15:01 in my early teen days we called him Neil Old, and then did our worst falsettos wails, but I had a Harvest 8-track (look it up kids) in the skanky company van, and would actually listen to it at "work", driving crowded, stinky hot highways during the war in Grenada great album |
| buddy | Posted: Mar 06, 2012 - 22:41 10 |
| Byronape ("post-capitalist wreckageville") | Posted: Feb 28, 2012 - 21:07 Cynaera wrote: And now I am an anti-government, anarchistic rebel with a stockpile of food and a paranoia of anyone who offers something that looks too good to be true. Okay, can't blame Neil Young for that, but he opened the door... My father always says that "A healthy paranoia has never killed anyone, but lack of a healthy paranoia has." My dad is a redneck Buddah. |
| Sjaaks (Horst, Netherlands) | Posted: Feb 17, 2012 - 04:06 Somebody tell me, how can somebody that looks like this:  have a voice like that... Okay okay, he was a lot younger when he sang this, but still...  By the way, i don't hate it, but i don't like it either. 5 |
| MiracleDrug (Earth) | Posted: Jan 16, 2012 - 10:16 uptome wrote: How can anybody not enjoy Neil?Listen, Relax and imagine yourself in a secluded redwood forest his voice could be used to extract confessions of war crimes... |
| Ears_of_Stone (Crushed under the hooves of the herd) | Posted: Jan 16, 2012 - 10:12 smellysack wrote: With an annoying screeching imaginary boy in your head who won't stop singing....so you start to get a headache and you can't enjoy the lush scene around you...all you want is to find a 7-11 where you can get some aspirin...but now you're no longer in the forest, you're in the hot concrete jungle with some alcoholic homeless bum pawing at you for a dollar as you are trying to enter the 7-11 to get the #$%^#! aspirin...which you can't eat till you pay for it, waiting for the retired dude to finish buying his 25 weekly lottery tickets while he tries to put the moves on the twenty-something behind the counter and talk her into a cup of coffee at the diner down the street because she reminds him of the girl he left for Vietnam...better not get smart with the ex-marine despite him making the six people behind him wait...one of whom can't stop listening to that screeching imaginary boy singing about the long walk home from Vietnam to Beirut... So thats how  by the way, love "Cinnamon Girl", live "Mr.Soul", and I still have a soft spot for "Sample & Hold"And yet I still like Neil's music. Funny story BTW. |
| aquadonia (Green Bay, WI) | Posted: Jan 16, 2012 - 10:11 This is absolutely perfect after U2's "One Tree Hill". Bravo, Bill!  |
| gemtag (Texas) | Posted: Jan 03, 2012 - 11:19 very very nice. Love this Neil. |
| madebytim (Denmark) | Posted: Sep 30, 2011 - 08:39 This comes up right after could cult... and makes me happy again :) |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Aug 29, 2011 - 23:10 Thank you for this! |
| smellysack | Posted: Jul 29, 2011 - 14:06 uptome wrote: How can anybody not enjoy Neil?Listen, Relax and imagine yourself in a secluded redwood forest With an annoying screeching imaginary boy in your head who won't stop singing....so you start to get a headache and you can't enjoy the lush scene around you...all you want is to find a 7-11 where you can get some aspirin...but now you're no longer in the forest, you're in the hot concrete jungle with some alcoholic homeless bum pawing at you for a dollar as you are trying to enter the 7-11 to get the #$%^#! aspirin...which you can't eat till you pay for it, waiting for the retired dude to finish buying his 25 weekly lottery tickets while he tries to put the moves on the twenty-something behind the counter and talk her into a cup of coffee at the diner down the street because she reminds him of the girl he left for Vietnam...better not get smart with the ex-marine despite him making the six people behind him wait...one of whom can't stop listening to that screeching imaginary boy singing about the long walk home from Vietnam to Beirut... So thats how by the way, love "Cinnamon Girl", live "Mr.Soul", and I still have a soft spot for "Sample & Hold" |
| Conorino (Going nowhere fast in Dublin, Ireland) | Posted: Jul 11, 2011 - 04:32 uptome wrote: How can anybody not enjoy Neil?Listen, Relax and imagine yourself in a secluded redwood forest  Too right! |
| On_The_Beach (Vancouver BC, Bud) | Posted: Jun 09, 2011 - 15:00 fortyonejb wrote: That wasn't particularly the best way to comment on Neil, I'll give you that, but everyone is entitled to their musical opinion. For example, Yeah Neil's voice drives me nuts, but I love Billy Corgans, we're all different. Yes, I occasionally get drawn into mudslinging, particularly when the same posters are making the same negative comments over and over. Most of the time I just let it go. |
| uptome | Posted: Jun 09, 2011 - 13:02 How can anybody not enjoy Neil?Listen, Relax and imagine yourself in a secluded redwood forest |
| fortyonejb (Some beach at 5 o'clock) | Posted: Jun 09, 2011 - 12:56 On_The_Beach wrote: Too bad we can't unmute your moronic comments. That wasn't particularly the best way to comment on Neil, I'll give you that, but everyone is entitled to their musical opinion. For example, Yeah Neil's voice drives me nuts, but I love Billy Corgans, we're all different. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Jun 09, 2011 - 12:53 bentonian wrote: Yes! Yes! The pretension, the paint-peeling voice, and the Gitmo harmonica... Awful. "Gitmo harmonica" - that is way too funny, and I really like Neil. . . |
| bentonian (Longmont, CO) | Posted: May 27, 2011 - 12:22 chadlymn wrote: The best part of every Neil Young song is.... The last word!!! That means the suffering is over! Can I un-mute it yet? Yes! Yes! The pretension, the paint-peeling voice, and the Gitmo harmonica... Awful. |
| jagdriver (Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise) | Posted: May 27, 2011 - 12:21 Cannot.listen.to.anything.from.this.album. |