Neil Young - A Letter Home lyrics

Sit by my side, come as close as the air And share in a memory of gray And wander in my words Dream about the pictures that I play of changes Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall To brown and to yellow, they fade And then they have to die Trapped within the circle time parade of changes Scenes of my young years were warm in my mind Visions of shadows that shine 'Til one day I returned and found they were The victims of the vines of changes The world's spinning madly, it drifts in the dark It Swings through a hollow of haze A race around the stars Journey through the universe ablaze with changes Moments of magic will glow in the night All fears of the forest are gone But when the morning breaks They're swept away by golden drops of dawn of changes Pa**ions will part to a strange melody As fires will sometimes burn cold Like petals in the wind We're puppets to the silver strings of souls of changes Your tears will be trembling, now we're somewhere else One last cup of wine we will pour And I'll kiss you one more time And leave you on the rolling river shore of changes So sit by my side, come as close as the air And share in a memory of gray And wander in my words Dream about the pictures that I play of changes If you're traveling in the north country fair Where the winds hits heavy on the borderline Remember me to one who lives there 'Cause she once was a true love of mine If you're goin' when the snowflakes storm When the rivers freeze and the summer ends Please see for me she has a coat so warm To keep her from the howling wind Please see for me if her hair hangs long If it rolls and flows all down her breasts Please see for me if her hair's hanging long That's the way I remember her best I'm a-wondering if she remembers me at all Many times I've often prayed In the darkness of my night In the brightness of my day If you're traveling in the north country fair Where the winds hits heavy on the borderline Remember me to one who lives there 'Cause she once was a true love of mine When sadness fills your heart And sorrow hides the longing to be free When things go wrong each day You fix your mind to 'scape your misery Your troubled young life Had made you turn To a needle of d**h How strange, your happy words Have ceased to bring a smile from everyone How tears have filled the eyes Of friends that you once had walked among Your troubled young life Had made you turn To a needle of d**h One grain of pure white snow Dissolved in blood spread quickly to your brain In peace your mind withdraws Your d**h so near your soul can't feel no pain Your troubled young life Had made you turn To a needle of d**h Your mother stands a'cryin' While to the earth your body's slowly cast Your father stands in silence Caressing every young dream of the past Your troubled young life Had made you turn To a needle of d**h Through ages, man's desires To free his mind, to release his very soul Has proved to all who live That d**h itself is freedom for evermore And your troubled young life Will make you turn To a needle of d**h In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand And an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand I'm a longway from home and I miss my loved one so In the early morning rain with nowhere place to go Cut on runway number nine, big 707 set to go I'm stuck here on the gra**, with the pain that ever grows The liquor tasted good and the women all were fast Well, there she goes, my friend, she's rolling down at last Hear the mighty engines roar, see the silver bird on high She's away and westward bound, far above the cloud she'll fly Where the morning rain don't fall and the sun always shines She'll be flying over my home in about three hours time This old airport's got me down, it's no earthly good to me Cause I'm stuck here on the ground, cold and drunk as I might be You can't hop a jet plane like you can a freight train So I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain (Willie Nelson) I'm crazy Crazy for feeling so lonely I'm crazy Crazy for feeling so blue I know You'd love me as long as you wanted Then someday Leave me for somebody new Worry Why do I let myself worry Wondring What in the world did I do Crazy For thinking that my love could hold you I'm crazy for crying I'm crazy for trying I'm crazy for loving you If I listened long enough to you I'd find a way to believe that it's all true Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried Still I look to find a reason to believe Someone like you makes it hard to live Without somebody else Someone like you makes it easy to give Never thinking of myself If I gave you time to change my mind I'd find a way to leave the past behind Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried Still I look to find a reason to believe Someone like you makes it hard to live Without somebody else Someone like you makes it easy to give Never thinking of myself If I gave you time to change my mind I'd find a way to leave the past behind Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried Still I look to find a reason to believe Still I look to find a reason to believe Still I look to find a reason to believe On the road again Just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is making music with my friends And I just can't wait to get on the road again On the road again Goin' places that I've never been Seein' things that I may never see again And I just can't wait to get on the road again On the road again Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway We're the best of friends Insisting that the world keep turning our way and our way Is on the road again I just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is making music with my friends And I just can't wait to get on the road again On the road again Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway We're the best of friends Insisting that the world keep turning our way and our way Is on the road again Just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is making music with my friends And I can't wait to get on the road again And I can't wait to get on the road again If you could read my mind love What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old time movie About a ghost from a wishin' well In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet You know that ghost is me And I will never be set free As long as I'm a ghost, you can see If I could read your mind love What a tale your thoughts could tell Just like a paperback novel The kind the d**tore sells When you reach the part where the heartaches Come the hero would be me Heroes often fail And you won't read that book again Because the endings just to hard to take I'd walk away like a movie star Who gets burned in a three way script Enter number two, a movie queen To play the scene of bringing All the good things out in me But for now love let's be real I never thought I could act this way And I've got to say that I just don't get it I don't know where we went wrong But the feelings gone and I just can't get it back If you could read my mind love What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old time movie About a ghost from a wishing well In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet the story always ends If you read between the lines You'll know that I'm just trying to understand The feelings that you lack I never knew I could feel this way And I've got to say that I just don't get it I don't know where we went wrong But the feelings gone and I just can't get it back Since I met you baby, my whole life has changed Since I met you baby, my whole life has changed And everybody tells me that I am not the same I don't need nobody to tell my troubles to I don't need nobody to tell my troubles to Cause since I met you baby, all I need is you Since I met you baby, I'm a happy man Since I met you baby, I'm a happy man I'm gonna try to please you in every way I can I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand Into the busstop To pick up a paper for my old man I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown This is your hometown This is your hometown This is your hometown In '65 tension was running high, at my high-school There was a lot of fights between the black and white There was nothing you could do Two cars at a light on a Saturday night, in the back seat there was a gun Words were pa**ed, in a shotgun blast Troubled times had come, to my hometown My hometown My hometown My hometown Now Main Street's white washed windows And vacant stores Seems like there ain't nobody Wants to come down here no more They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown Your hometown Your hometown Your hometown Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out Packing up our bags maybe heading south I'm 35, we got a boy of our own now Last night I sat him up, behind the wheel and said son take a good look around, this is your hometown (The Everly Brothers) I wonder if I care as much As I did before... Last night I cried myself to sleep For the one that makes me weep I dried my eyes to greet the day And wondered why I had to pay The tears that I have shed by day Give relief and wash away The memory of the night before I wonder if I'll suffer more I wonder if I care as much As I did before... My pride is made to say forgive And take the blame for what you did It's your mistakes I'm thinkin' of I wonder if I'm still in love My heart can't thrive on misery My life it has no destiny When things get more Than I can bear I ask myself "Do I still care?" I wonder if I care as much As I did before..