edit for headphones, just to enjoy it more intensely, well, supposed to... the song was an early 1969 neil young & crazy horse song, but csn&y decided to release it on their 1970 album "déjà vu". this is an edit from the one of the album "carry on". my wife hates its wailing, I love my wife.
about the town in the first verse Neil Young said: "Well, it's not literally a specific town so much as a feeling. Actually, it's a couple of towns. Omemee, Ontario, is one of them. It's where I first went to school and spent my 'formative' years. Actually I was born in Toronto..."
More so than any other song, "Helpless" touches on Young's earliest childhood memories. Young came down with polio by age six, prompting his parents to spend a year in Florida hoping the warmer weather would speed his cure. Ten years after this came the Young's divorce, from which Neil stayed with his mother while his father kept his brother Bob and later remarried. So, typical for Neil Young, the memories represented here are bittersweet.
HELPLESS
(Neil Young)
there is a town in north Ontario
with dream comfort memory to spare
and in my mind I still need a place to go
all my changes were there
blue, blue windows behind the stars
yellow moon on the rise
big birds flying across the sky
throwing shadows on our eyes
leave us helpless, helpless, helpless
baby can you hear me now
the chains are locked and tied across the door
baby, sing with me somehow
blue, blue windows behind the stars
yellow moon on the rise
big birds flying across the sky
throwing shadows on our eyes
leave us helpless, helpless, helpless
helpless, helpless, helpless
helpless, helpless, helpless
helpless, helpless, helpless
helpless, helpless
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