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 Freedom Artist: Neil Young 1989 Reprise Records All selections by Neil Young unless noted. ---------------------------------------------- Rockin' in the Free World 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'ed be beter off dead Don't feel like Satan But I am to them So I try to forget it, any way I can CHORUS Keep on rockin' in the free world Keep on rockin' in the free world Keep on rockin' in the free world Keep on rockin' in the free world I see a girl in the night With a baby in her hand Under an old street light Near a garbage can Now she puts the kid away And she's gone to get a hit She hates her life And what she's done to it That's one more kid That will never go to school Never get to fall in love Never get to be cool CHORUS --------------------------------------------- Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part 1) 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 the robber And his wife was a thief All the children were killers They couldn't get no relief The bungalow was surrounded When a voice loud and clear Said, "Come on out with your hands up Or we'll blow you out ofhere." There was a face in the window The TV cameras rolled Then they cut to the announcer And the story was told The artist looked at the producer The producer sat back He said, "What we have got here Is a perfect track But we don't have a vocal And we don't have a song If we could get these things accomplished Nothin' else could go wrong." So he balanced the ashtray As he picked up the phone And said, "Send me a songwriter Who's drifted far from home And make sure that he's hungry Make sure he's alone Send me a cheeseburger And a new Rolling Stone." Yeah "There's still crime in the city," Said the cop on the beat, "I don't know if I can stop it I feel like meat on the street They paint my car like a target I take my orders fromools Meanwhile some kid blows my head off Well I play by their rules That's why I''m doin' int my way I took the law in my hands So here I am in the alleyway A wad of cash in my pants I get paid by a ten year old He says he looks up to me There's still crime in the city But it's good to be free." Yeah Now I come from a family That has a broken home Sometimes I talk to Daddy On the telephone When he says that he loves me I know that he does But I wish I could see him I 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 Well I keep gettin' younger My lie's been funny that way Before I ever learned to talk I forgot what to say I sassed back to my mom I sassed back to my teacher I got thrown out of Bible school For sassin' back to the preacher Then I grew up to be a firemaan Put out every fire in town Put out anything smokin' But when I put the hose down The judge sent me to prison He gave me life without parole Wish I never put the hose down Wish I never got old --------------------------------------- Don't Cry Don't cry my sweet girl Nothin' I say is written in stone Don't cry my sweet love You won't really be alone Woa oh I'll help you pack your things I'll walk with you out to the car I'll hold on to the ring I won't forget the way things are Woa oh My sweet love... Your disappointed eyes Are haunting me like my big lies I see you glaring now I see you ustaring in the fire Woa oh My sweet love... Don't cry my sweet girl Nothin' I say is written in stone Don't cry my sweet love You won't really be alone Woa oh My sweet love my sweet love... Ahhh Don't cry my sweet girl You won't really be alone Don't cry my sweet girl You won'T really be alone Don't cry my sweet girl You won't really be alone -------------------------------------------- Hangin' on a Limb Though the river flows Gently to the sea He was on the shore Rooted like a tree She was here and there Riding on the waves Through it all she heard his call And gave it all she gave CHORUS And though their love was hangin' on a limb She taught him how to dance and start again And thoug their love was hangin' on a limb She taught him how to dance When the melody Through the window called It echoed in the courtyard And whispered in the halls He played it through the night She knew he had to go There was something about freedom He thought he didn't know CHORUS Though the river flowed Gently to the sea He was on the shore Rooted like a tree She was here and there Riding on the waves Through it all she heard his call And gave it all she gave CHORUS ------------------------------------------- Eldorado In the crystal ball The gypsy sees the villa The riders on the hill The fire in the fields She sees the mission bell Swinging in the silence now the shooting starts The bulles pierce the hearts The senoritas crying on the wall Up in the Gold Hotel The money hits the table The heavies are all there That's why the deal's goin' down Beautiful women all dressed in Diamonds and sable Down upon the street Beside a garbage heap A mariachi band begins to play Somewhere a blues guitar Plays echos in the alleyway The Tijuana dawn claims another day The golden sun rises on the runway The pilot understands The money changes hands Inside the jet the briefcase snaps Goodbye In Eldorado town There lives a great bullfighter His eyes are screaming blue His hair is red as blood And when the gate goes up The crowd gets so excited And he comes dancin' out Dressed in gold lame He kills the bull And lives another day -------------------------------------------- The Ways of Love Yo are my special one Made my heart come all undone We've been havin' too much fun Now someone else Will sleep with tears When he hears What we've done CHORUS Oh the ways of love Oh the ways of love Hear my song and hear my heart We'll be gone when the music starts Then we'll never be apart Just you and I Go flyin' by No one to cry That we're gone CHORUS You are my special one Made my heart come all undone We've been havin' too much fun Now someone else Will sleep with tears When hears What we've done CHORUS ------------------------------------------- Someday Rommel wore a ring on his finger He only took it off when he flew his plane Once he told me why He said we all have to fly someday We all have to fly Someday TV preacher can't be bothered With those pretty things He stays a step removed so they say He's pipin' music in We all have to sin someday We all havve to sin Someday Workin' on that great Alaska pipeline Many men werre lost in the pipe The went to felin' cars How smog might turn to stars Someday Smog might turn to stars Someday Hold me baby, put your arms around me Give me all the love you have to give Tomorrow won't be late We won't have to wait someday We won't have to wait Someday --------------------------------------------- On Broadway (Barry Mann/Cynthia Weill/Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) They say the neon lights are bright On Broadway They say there's always magic In the air But when you7re walkin' down the street And you ain't had enough to eat The glitter rubs right off And you're nowhere They say the women treat you fine On Broadway But lookin' at them Just gives me the blues How ya gonna make some time When all you got is one thin dime And one thin dime won't even Shine your shoes? They say that I won't last too long On Broadway I'll catch a Greyhound bus for home They all say But they're dead wrong I know they are 'Cause I can play this here guitar I won't quit till I'm a star On Broadway On Broadway On Broadway Give me that crack Give me some of that crack Give me that crack Ahhhhh Broadway ------------------------------------------ Wrecking Ball My life's an open book You read it on the radio We got nowhere to hide We got nowhere to go But if you still decide That you want to take a ride CHORUS Meet me at the wrecking ball Wrecking ball Wear something pretty and white And we'll go dancin' tonight Meet me at the wrecking ball Wrecking ball Wear something pretty and white And we'll go dancin' toniht I see your smokey eyes Right across the bar I've seen that look before Shining from star to star Though I can't take that chance If you got time for one dance CHORUS The restless line of cars Goes stretchin' down the road But I won't telephone 'Cause you might say hello What is it makes me feel this way? What is it makes me want to say CHORUS ------------------------------------------ No More Livin' on the edge of night You know the sun won't go down slow You don't know which drug is right Can't decide which way you wanna go I feel the way you feel 'Cause not long ago It had a hold on me I couldn't let it go It wouldn't set me free It wouldn't set me free No more, no more, no more Seemed like the easy thing To let it go for one more day Like singin' the same old song And twistin' the words In a different way Where did the magic go I searched high and low I can't find it no more I can't get it back I can't find it no more I can't find it no more No more, no more, no more, no more Searchin' for quality Havin' to have the very best Now scroungin' for quantity Never havin' time To do the test That's how this story goes Can't put it down Till the last page I can't pull it down I can't put it down I can't put it down -------------------------------------------- Too Far Gone When I woke up you were gone and the sun was on the lawn Empty pillow with perfume on I smelled it Well we met in my favorite bar Took a ride in my old car But I still don't know how We made it home CHORUS Was I too far gone Too far gone Too far gone For you We had drugs and we had booze But we still had something to lose and by dawn I wanted To marry you With our attitudes by day And our secret dreams by night Can we really live our lives That way CHORUS ------------------------------------------ Rockin' in the Free World (2) There's colors on the street Red, white and blue People shufflin' their feet People sleepin' in their shoes 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 CHORUS Keep on rockin' in tthe free world Keep on rockin' in the free world Keep on rockin' in the free world Keep on rockin' in the free world I see a woman in the night With a baby in here hand There's an old street light Near a garbage can Now she puts the kid away And she's gone to get a hit She hates her life And what she's done to it There's one more kid That will never go to school Never get to fall in love Never get to be cool CHORUS We got a thousand points of light For the homeless man We got a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand We got department stores And toilet paper Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer Got a man of the people Says keep hope alive Got fuel to burn Got roads to drive CHORUS |
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