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“If you follow every dream, you might get lost.”
― Neil Young

“It's bettet to burn out than to fade away”
― Neil Young

“Once I thought I saw you
in a crowded hazy bar,
Dancing on the light
from star to star.
Far across the moonbeam
I know that's who you are,
I saw your brown eyes
turning once to fire.

You are like a hurricane
There's calm in your eye.
And I'm gettin' blown away
To somewhere safer
where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but
I'm getting blown away.

I am just a dreamer,
but you are just a dream,
You could have been
anyone to me.
Before that moment
you touched my lips
That perfect feeling
when time just slips
Away between us
on our foggy trip.

You are like a hurricane
There's calm in your eye.
And I'm gettin' blown away
To somewhere safer
where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but
I'm getting blown away.

You are just a dreamer,
and I am just a dream.
You could have been
anyone to me.
Before that moment
you touched my lips
That perfect feeling
when time just slips
Away between us
on our foggy trip.

You are like a hurricane
There's calm in your eye.
And I'm gettin' blown away
To somewhere safer
where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but
I'm getting blown away.

The song was written in July 1975 after Young had just undergone an operation on his vocal chords after a cocaine-fueled night with friend. "We were all really high, fucked up. Been out partying. Wrote it sitting up at Vista Point on Skyline. Supposed to be the highest point in San Mateo County, which was appropriate. I wrote it when I couldn't sing. I was on voice rest. It was nuts - I was whistling it.

I wrote a lot of songs when I couldn't talk.”
― Neil Young

“Keep on rockin' in the free world.”
― Neil Young

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

“And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.”
― Neil Young

“There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high”
― Neil Young

“This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.”
― Neil Young

“I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.”
― Neil Young

“There's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead. I don't feel like a satan but I guess I am...keep on rockin' the free world.”
― Neil Young

“It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.”
― Neil Young

“I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.”
― Neil Young

“As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.”
― Neil Young

“It's only castles burning”
― Neil Young