quote:

I'm a dreamin' man, yes, that's my problem
I can't tell when I'm not being real.
In the meadow dusk I park my Aerostar
With a loaded gun and sweet dreams of you.

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Where my designer B*tches at?

MAGNETS....COWS....HERD....it all makes sense now?

There's nothing worse than driving in a snowstorm with a GPS that's on the rag

Do you take PAYPAL?

Look out Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river,
With a big red beacon, and a flag and a man on the rail.
I think you'd better call John,
Cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail.

I love this song from Rust Never Sleeps. I think it says something for the stereotypical "poor, southern and rural" of the US and the disenfranchised of the world in general. Cryptic Neil Young humour creeping in through the last line there. I like these other few lines from that song (Powderfinger), just as much or more than those:

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

Sailing heart-ships thru broken harbours
Out on the waves in the night
Still the searcher must ride the dark horse
Racing alone in his fright.
Tell me why, tell me why

Here's from Mr. Soul

I was down on a frown when the messenger brought me a letter
I was raised by the praise of a fan who said I upset her
Any girl in the world could have easily known me better
She said, You're strange, but don't change, and I let her.

Never quite understood that last line, but it always stuck in my mind.

By the way, H.L.M. I love to play, Sugar Mountain but can never remember more than the chorus and a few other lines.

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To be or not to be is NOT the question!

Rather, is it your will to be here, or to be elsewhere?

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.


Those four lines, from "After the Gold Rush" (even though I just typed in 'before the gold rush'...I be needin' a doctor Jim)...are four of my favourites...even though my favourite song, as a whole, has always been "Harvest Moon."

When thinking of these four lines, I have a beautiful picture...all "as you wish" and "ladyhawks and wolves" and nice helpers like "Matthew Broderick"...
Sometimes, though, lyrics just beg us to go outside the box...so just last week...after I saw Jim Cuddy on CBC..at an event in recognition of Neil Young and the "Heart of Gold" film...I started thinking about them again...the lyrics, that is...
I see knights in armor (our moor...I had another song in my head yesterday about our moor and mosaicing him...I can't remember which song it was now) as possibly being people disguised for some reason...Imagine someone, if they were able to, coming from another country into someone here with news of some sort...kind of like a Gabriel...but maybe more of our world."
Everyone spoke up and was heard...there was joy...no more silence...kind of like the song "I'd like to teach the world to sing."
The archer splitting the tree could be a sign of freedom, a sign of releasing someone from some tying binds (like roots, or as in the Elvis song "I was an oak, now I'm a willow"...or even taking two sides of one person and granting each their freedom so that one does not overshadow or encroach upon the other's ability to do what they were put here for...and, likewise, so that one side does not feed upon or covet the other side...
Then again, sometimes, I just like to imagine Jim Cuddy splitting wood...back breaking...


In any case...it is quite the song...Liam Titcomb eludes to it in his album...in the song "That's My So Called Life," where he talks about "a song about mother nature"...I had so much trouble trying to remember which song he was referring to when I first heard Liam singing it...but I know this song from deep within and I eventually found it again...
I love Liam's sound...I had a burned-out spot in the basement of a house I once owned...it makes you wonder about the lives of those who have touched a place before you...

I actually had a "gold rush" type dream:

In the dream my daughter and I were picking berries at a nearby farm...When we were finished and were heading back to the car, I looked up and there were at least four or five big airplanes (kind of like 747's) sitting in the field. There were people running towards us...passing us on our right...kind of like being on an airstrip and in a berry field at the same time...one girl (who is so familiar and dislikable to me...yet I only know her from my dreams and from seeing her ressemblance in so many doctors I've had over the years...) looked at us and said "run...get on the planes..."
Not liking her much and not wanting to go anywhere she was going I kept walking towards where we had left the car...as we got to the parking area...there were army guys coming up on our right with machine guns...saying to get on the planes or move or something...but it was kind of like they couldn't really see us...they were almost touching us actually...

I told my daughter that we were going to go home to Daddy and we got into our car (which had turned from our family car into my old red GEO)and left. I guess I woke up after that...I don't remember anything else...I do believe there may have been someone reaching for my right shoulder so I woke up...I tend to wake up when things go wrong, or I am afraid they are going wrong,in my dreams...which is good...because I remember the exciting ones and stay out of trouble on the other side...(I hope).



Yes...After the Gold Rush...an excellent song...Mother Nature's gold...well, that's orange juice...who agrees?

quote:

Look out Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river,
With a big red beacon, and a flag and a man on the rail.
I think you'd better call John,
Cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail.

Ann, that is my all time favourite. Wicked tune!!!

They are all good. He is an exceptional talent. Home grown is my favourite!

It is wicked isn't it? Wickedly appropriate. My favourite kind.

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Originally posted by Linda L:
Yes...After the Gold Rush...an excellent song...Mother Nature's gold...well, that's orange juice...who agrees?

Umm, yes it is an excellent song. Orange juice is pretty darn good too. Apparently Tropicana makes a low-acid one that is quite good.

JUST HAD TO BRING THIS UP!!

For all of you OLDIES like myself?
Does anyone remember CSNY"s "DOUBLE LIVE" album
4-way street?
I remember buying it the very first day it went on sale!
I was still in highschool at the time...(well at least some of the time)
And now that I"m 50+...I STILL listen to that album!!! NEVER GROWN TIRED OF IT!!
The first album is all accoustic stuff....and on the SECOND?.....they all "COOK" real HARD on the lengthy jammy versions of stuff like "Southern Man".."OHIO"..."LOMG TIME GONE"..
and so on!
When NEIL teels the crowd..."This is usualy a REALLY LONG SONG FOLKS".....they break into a 17-18 miute version of "SOUTHERN MAN"..with LENGTHY guitar solo"s that were unheard of at that particular time!
For anyone hasn"t heard this album?..GET IT!!

Bluetunes..

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~ I"m steady as rain
nothing ever changes in my heart~ JGC..

LOL the only lyric that keeps popping into my mind is:
Homegrown's all right with me
Homegrown it's the way it should be
Homegrown is a good thing.
Plant that ? (I've forgotten the last line) can someone finish for me?

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"the first time I kissed you I lost my legs" DMB

"Take a bow when you feel like a superstar.
Shake your pants when you feel what's inside your heart" Michael Franti

My Favorite first four Neil lines ( I don't think they are on this album) but.....

Look out Mama, there's a white boat coming up the river
With a big read beacon, and a flag, and a man on the rail
I think you'd better call John,
'cause it don't look like they're here to deliver.... the mail...

That's from Rust Never Sleeps.

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Originally posted by Gobo:
Here's from Mr. Soul

I was down on a frown when the messenger brought me a letter
I was raised by the praise of a fan who said I upset her
Any girl in the world could have easily known me better
She said, You're strange, but don't change, and I let her.

Never quite understood that last line, but it always stuck in my mind.

It's great...it's art...you don't have to understand it...it's good on its own.

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Originally posted by seaottrwmn:
LOL the only lyric that keeps popping into my mind is:
Homegrown's all right with me
Homegrown it's the way it should be
Homegrown is a good thing.
Plant that ? (I've forgotten the last line) can someone finish for me?

It's "Plant that bell and let it ring."

I wanna live with the Cinnamon Girl
I could be happy the rest of my life with the cinnamom girl


that is my favorite right there, I love that song....



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