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“Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Four dead in Ohio.”

Neil Young

Ohio, from 4 Way Street (1971)
Song lyrics, With Crosby, Stills & Nash

Summer , Dead

“There you stood on the edge of your feather
Expecting to fly.
While I laughed, I wondered whether
I could wave goodbye
Knowin' that you'd gone.”

Neil Young

Expecting to Fly, from Buffalo Springfield Again
Song lyrics, With Buffalo Springfield

Flying

“I'm not going back to Woodstock for a while,
Though I long to hear that lonesome hippie smile,
I'm a million miles away from that helicopter day,
No, I don't think I'll be goin' back that way.”

Neil Young

Roll Another Number (For The Road)
Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975)

Smile , Way , Thinking

“Well, people let me tell you, it sent a chill up and down my spine,
When I picked up the telephone and heard that he'd died out on the mainline.”

Neil Young

Tonight's the Night
Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975)

People

“Think I'll roll another number for the road,
I feel able to get under any load,
Though my feet aren't on the ground,
I've been standing on the sound
Of some open-hearted people going down.”

Neil Young

Roll Another Number (For The Road)
Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975)

People , Feeling , Thinking , Heart

“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.”

Neil Young

Barstool Blues
Song lyrics, Zuma (1975)

Night

“Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning,
Just find someone who's turning
And you will come around.”

Neil Young

Don't Let It Bring You Down
Song lyrics, After the Gold Rush (1970)

“Please take my advice, please take my advice,
Open up the tired eyes,
Open up the tired eyes.”

Neil Young

Tired Eyes
Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975)

“I've been to Hollywood
I've been to Redwood
I crossed the ocean
For a heart of gold.
I've been in my mind,
It's such a fine line
That keeps me searching
For a heart of gold.
And I'm getting old.”

Neil Young

Heart of Gold
Song lyrics, Harvest (1972)

Search , Heart

“He tried to do his best but he could not.”

Neil Young

Tired Eyes
Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975)

“Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you're thinking that
You're leaving there too soon,
You're leaving there too soon.”

Neil Young

Sugar Mountain (1969)
Song lyrics

Color , Mountain , Thinking

“The economy was getting so bad, I had to lay myself off.”

Neil Young

Old Ways
Song lyrics, Old Ways (1985)

“Southern man better keep your head.
Don't forget what your good book said.
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast.
Southern man.”

Neil Young

Southern Man
Song lyrics, After the Gold Rush (1970)

Books , Change , Forgetting

“There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign
On the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin'
We'd be better off dead.
Don't feel like Satan,
But I am to them.
So I try to forget it,
Any way I can.”

Neil Young

Rockin' in the Free World
Song lyrics, Freedom (1989)

People , Color , Shoe , Way

“It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.”

Neil Young

Saddle Up the Palomino
Song lyrics, American Stars 'n Bars (1977)

Love

“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.”

Neil Young Old Man

Old Man
Source: Song lyrics, Harvest (1972)

Love , Life

“See the lonely boy, out on the weekend,
Tryin' to make it pay.
Can't relate to joy, he tries to speak and
Can't begin to say.”

Neil Young

Out On The Weekend
Song lyrics, Harvest (1972)

Boy , Joy

“Old man look at my life,
Twenty four
And there's so much more
Live alone in a paradise
That makes me think of two.”

Neil Young Old Man

Old Man
Song lyrics, Harvest (1972)

Life , Thinking

“The world is turning,
I hope it don't turn away.”

Neil Young

On the Beach
Song lyrics, On the Beach (1974)

World , Hope

“Oh, baby, that's hard to change,
I can't tell them how to feel,
Some get stoned, some get strange,
But sooner or later, it all gets real.
Walk on.
Walk on.”

Neil Young

Walk On
Song lyrics, On the Beach (1974)

Feeling , Change , Baby