NEIL YOUNG: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)

1. Cinnamon Girl
2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
3. Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)
4. Down By The River
5. The Losing End (When You're On)
6. Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)
7. Cowgirl In The Sand

CINNAMON GIRL
I wanna live with a cinnamon girl

I could be happy the rest of my life

With a cinnamon girl.

A dreamer of pictures I run in the night

You see us together, chasing the moonlight,

My cinnamon girl.

Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow

The drummer relaxes and waits between shows

For his cinnamon girl.

A dreamer of pictures I run in the night

You see us together, chasing the moonlight,

My cinnamon girl.

Pa sent me money now I'm gonna make it somehow I need another chance

You see your baby loves to dance

Yeah...yeah...yeah.

EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE
I think I'd like to go back home
And take it easy
There's a woman that I'd like to get to know
Living there
Everybody seems to wonder
What it's like down here
I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around,
Everybody knows this is nowhere.
Everybody, everybody knows
Everybody knows.

Every time I think about back home
It's cool and breezy
I wish that I could be there right now
Just passing time.
Everybody seems to wonder
What it's like down here
I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around,
Everybody knows this is nowhere.
Everybody knows, everybody knows
Everybody knows.

ROUND & ROUND (IT WON'T BE LONG)
Round and round and round we spin,
To weave a wall to hem us in,
It won't be long, it won't be long
How slow and slow and slow it goes,
To mend the tear that always shows.
It won't be long, it won't be long.

It's hard enough losin' the paper illusion you've hidden inside,
Without the confusion of findin' you're usin' the crutch of the lie
To shelter your pride when you cry.

Round and round and round we spin,
To weave a wall to hem us in,
It won't be long, it won't be long
How slow and slow and slow it goes,
To mend the tear that always shows.
It won't be long, it won't be long.

Now you're movin' too slow and wherever you go there's another beside.
It's so hard to say no to yourself and it shows that you're losing inside,
When you step on your pride and you cry.

Round and round and round we spin,
To weave a wall to hem us in,
It won't be long, it won't be long
How slow and slow and slow it goes,
To mend the tear that always shows.
It won't be long, it won't be long.

How the hours will bend through the time that you spend till you turn to your eyes,
And you see your best friend looking over the end and you turn to see why,
And he looks in your eyes and he cries.

Round and round and round we spin,
To weave a wall to hem us in,
It won't be long, it won't be long
How slow and slow and slow it goes,
To mend the tear that always shows.
It won't be long, it won't be long.

DOWN BY THE RIVER
Be on my side, I'll be on your side, baby

There is no reason for you to hide

It's so hard for me staying here all alone

When you could be taking me for a ride.

Yeah, she could drag me over the rainbow, send me away

Down by the river I shot my baby

Down by the river,

Dead, oh, shot her dead.

You take my hand, I'll take your hand

Together we may get away

This much madness is too much sorrow It's impossible to make it today.

Yeah, she could drag me over the rainbow, send me away

Down by the river I shot my baby

Down by the river,

Dead, oh, shot her dead.

Be on my side, I'll be on your side, baby

There is no reason for you to hide It's so hard for me staying here all alone

When you could be taking me for a ride.

Yeah, she could drag me over the rainbow, send me away

Down by the river I shot my baby

Down by the river,

Dead, oh, shot her dead.

THE LOSING END (WHEN YOU'RE ON)
I went into town to see you yesterday but you were not home.
So I talked to some old friends for a while before I wandered off alone.
It's so hard for me now
But I'll make it somehow,
Though I know I'll never be the same
Won't you ever change your ways,
It's so hard to make love pay
When you're on the losing end,
And I feel that way again.

Well, I miss you more than ever, since you've gone I can hardly maintain.
Things are different round here every night, my tears fall down like rain.
It's so hard for me now
But I'll make it somehow,
Though I know I'll never be the same
Won't you ever change your ways,
It's so hard to make love pay
When you're on the losing end,
And I feel that way again.

RUNNING DRY (REQUIEM FOR THE ROCKETS)
Oh, please help me, oh please help me,
I'm livin' by myself.
I need someone to comfort me,
I need someone to tell.

I'm sorry for the things I've done,
I've shamed myself with lies,
But soon these things are overcome
And can't be recognized.

I left my love with ribbons on
And water in her eyes.
I took from her the love I'd won
And turned it to the sky.

I'm sorry for the things I've done,
I've shamed myself with lies,
My cruelty has punctured me
And now I'm running dry.

I'm sorry for the things I've done,
I've shamed myself with lies.
But soon these things are overcome
And can't be recognized.

COWGIRL IN THE SAND
Hello cowgirl in the sand Is this place at your command?

Can I stay here for a while?

Can I see your sweet sweet smile?

Old enough now to change your name

When so many love you is it the same?

It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

Hello ruby in the dust

Has your band begun to rust?

After all the sin we've had

I was hopin' that we turn back

Old enough now to change your name

When so many love you is it the same?

It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

Hello woman of my dreams

This is not the way it seems

Purple words on a grey background

To be a woman and to be turned down

Old enough now to change your name

When so many love you is it the same?

It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game