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The Neil Young Nonsense Lyric Thread


Bong-Man

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They only play that "Keep on Livin' in the Free World" song on the radio these days. Those lyrics really suck, although I'm sure there's a really deep reality message in them. I want to hear "Powderfinger" and the other good songs where babies stay out of garbage cans...

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I went to the radio interview but I ended up alone at the microphone. I went to the radio interview but I ended up alone at the microphone.

Now I'm livin' out here on the beach but those seagulls are still out of reach.

I went to the radio interview but I ended up alone at the microphone.

~ On the Beach

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Now I come from a family

That has a broken home

Sometimes I talk to my daddy

On the telephone

When he says that he loves me

I know that he does

But I wish I could see him

Wish I knew where he was

But that's

The way all my friends are

Except maybe one or two

Wish I could see him this weekend

Wish I could walk in his shoes

But now I'm doin' my own thing

Sometimes I'm good, then I'm bad

Although my home has been broken

It's the best home I ever had

Yeah.

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Well, the cop made the showdown

He was sure he was right

He had all of the lowdown

From the bank heist last night

His best friend was a robber

And his wife was a thief

All the children were murderers

They couldn't get no relief

The bungalow was surrounded

When a voice loud and clear

Come out with your hands up

Or we're gonna blow you out of here

There was a face in the window

TV cameras rolled

And they cut to the announcer

And the story was told.

Yeah.

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Well, I keep getting younger

My life's been funny that way

Before I ever learned to talk

I forgot what to say

I sassed back to my mummy

I sassed back to my teacher

I got thrown out of Sunday School

For throwin' bibles at the preacher

Then I grew up to be a fireman

I put out every fire in town

Put out everything smoking

But when I put the hose down

The judge sent me to prison

Gave me life without parole

Wish I never put the hose down

Wish I never got old.

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I have a Neil Bootleg (Dorthy Chandler Pavillion, UCLA, Feb 1, 1971) and, during Sugar Mountain, he stops singing and says "Its hard for me to sing this next verse because I think it's the lamest thing I ever wrote. When I wrote this song there were dozens of verses and I had to choose four so I put this one in there as a reference to what can happen." Then he sings:

"Now you're underneath the stairs (stares?)

And you're giving back some glares,

To the people who you met,

And it's your first cigarette."

Then he says (in his Neil Young half bored monotone) "Pretty heavy, huh?"

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