buffalo springfield (neil young) - expecting to fly - stereo edit

Edit for headphones, July 2021, an edit to show how bass distortion sounds... sorry, couldn't resist messing this song up with a lot of bass. A real great song from the 1967 album "Buffalo Springfield Again" that didn't need any editing, it is a very well done mix, so: sorry.
A "real huge" charts hit in 1968: wow, #98 on the USA Billboard Hot 100. Did you ever get YOUR song that high? Producer Jack Nitzsche (who also contributed to the album "Harvest") played electric piano and also provided the orchestral arrangement featuring a string section plus an oboe. So it is a true Jack Nitzsche work of art too. I think this song is a masterpiece.

By the time Buffalo Springfield came to record their second album "Buffalo Springfield Again" they were less a group than a collection of individuals. Neil Young wrote and recorded this song with the 'Wrecking Crew': Carol Kaye on bass, Russ Tillman on rhythm, Hal Blaine on drums and Don Randi on piano.

EXPECTING TO FLY
(Neil Young)

there you stood on the edge of your feather
expecting to fly
while I laughed, I wondered whether
I could wave goodbye
knowin' that you'd gone

by the summer it was healing
we had said goodbye
all the years we'd spent with feeling
ended with a cry
babe, ended with a cry
babe, ended with a cry

I tried so hard to stand
as I stumbled and fell to the ground
so hard to laugh as I fumbled
and reached for the love I found
knowin' it was gone

if I ever lived without you
now you know I'd die
if I ever said I loved you
now you know I'd try
babe, now you know I'd try
babe, now you know I'd try
babe

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