NEIL YOUNG: Live Rust (1979)

1. Sugar Mountain
2. I Am A Child
3. Comes A Time
4. After The Goldrush
5. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
6. When You Dance I Can Really Love
7. The Loner
8. The Needle And The Damage Done
9. Lotta Love
10. Sedan Delivery
11. Powderfinger
12. Cortez The Killer
13. Cinnamon Girl
14. Like A Hurricane
15. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
16. Tonight's The Night

SUGAR MOUNTAIN
Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain

With the barkers and the colored balloons,

You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain

Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,

You're leaving there too soon.

It's so noisy at the fair

But all your friends are there

And the candy floss you had

And your mother and your dad.

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain

With the barkers and the colored balloons,

You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain

Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,

You're leaving there too soon.

There's a girl just down the aisle,

Oh, to turn and see her smile.

You can hear the words she wrote

As you read the hidden note.

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain

With the barkers and the colored balloons,

You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain

Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,

You're leaving there too soon.

Now you're underneath the stairs

And you're givin' back some glares

To the people who you met

And it's your first cigarette.

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain

With the barkers and the colored balloons,

You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain

Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,

You're leaving there too soon.

Now you say you're leavin' home

'Cause you want to be alone.

Ain't it funny how you feel

When you're findin' out it's real?

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain

With the barkers and the colored balloons,

You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain

Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,

You're leaving there too soon.

I AM A CHILD

I am a child, I'll last a while

You can't conceive of the pleasure in my smile

You hold my hand, rough up my hair,

It's lots of fun to have you there.

I gave to you, now, you give to me,

I'd like to know what you learned.

The sky is blue and so is the sea.

What is the color, when black is burned?

What is the color?

You are a man, you understand.

You pick me up and you lay me down again.

You make the rules, you say what's fair,

It's lots of fun to have you there.

I gave to you, now, you give to me,

I'd like to know what you learned.

The sky is blue and so is the sea.

What is the color, when black is burned?

What is the color?

I am a child, I'll last a while.

You can't conceive of the pleasure in my smile.

COMES A TIME

Comes a time when you're driftin'
Comes a time when you settle down
Comes a light feelin's liftin'
Lift that baby right up off the ground.
Oh, this old world keeps spinning round
It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down
There comes a time.

You and I we were captured
We took our souls and we flew away
We were right we were giving
That's how we kept what we gave away
Oh, this old world keeps spinning round
It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down
There comes a time.
Comes a time, comes a time

Oh, this old world keeps spinning round

It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down

There comes a time.

Comes a time, comes a time...

AFTER THE GOLDRUSH
Well, I dreamed I saw the knights In armor coming,

Saying something about a queen.

There were children singing and Drummers drumming

And the archer split the tree.

There was a fanfare blowing

To the sun

That was floating on the breeze.

Look at Mother Nature on the run In the nineteen seventies.

Look at Mother Nature on the run In the nineteen seventies.

I was lying in a burned out basement

With the full moon in my eyes.

I was hoping for replacement

When the sun burst thru the sky.

There was a band playing in my head

And I felt like getting high.

I was thinking about what a friend had said I was hoping it was a lie.

Thinking about what a friend had said I was hoping it was a lie.

Well, I dreamed I saw the silver space ships flying

In the yellow haze of the sun,

There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.

All in a dream, all in a dream the loading had begun.

They were flying Mother Nature's Silver seed to a new home in the sun.

Flying Mother Nature's Silver seed to a new home.

MY MY, HEY HEY (OUT OF THE BLUE)

My my, hey hey,
Rock and roll is here to stay
It's better to burn out, than to fade away
My my, hey hey

It's out of the blue and into the black
They give you this, but you pay for that
And once you're gone you can't come back
When you're out of the blue, and into the black

The king is gone but he's not forgotten
This is a story of a Johnny Rotten
It's better to burn out than it is to rust
The king is gone but he's not forgotten

My my Hey hey
Rock and roll is here to stay

Hey hey My my

Tock and roll can never die
There's more to the picture, than meets the eye
Hey hey, my my

Rock and roll can never die

Hey hey, My my

Rock and roll can never die

WHEN YOU DANCE I CAN REALLY LOVE
When you dance, do your senses tingle? Then take a chance?

In a trance, while the lonely mingle with circumstance?
I've got something to tell you you make it show.

Baby come over, I know you know

When you dance I can really love.

I can love, I can really love, I can really love

I can love, I can really love, I can really love

Like a mountain that's growing a river that rolls

Baby come over, I know you know

When you dance I can really love.

When you dance, do your senses tingle? Then take a chance?
In a trance, while the lonely mingle with circumstance?

I've got something to tell you you make it show.
Baby come over, I know you know
When you dance I can really love.

THE LONER
He's a perfect stranger, like a cross of himself and a fox.

He's a feeling arranger and a changer of the ways he talks.

He's the unforeseen danger the keeper of the key to the locks.

Know when you see him, nothing can free him.

Step aside, open wide,

It's the loner.

If you see him in the subway, he'll be down at the end of the car.

Watching you move until he knows he knows who you are.

When you get off at your station alone, he'll know that you are.

Know when you see him, nothing can free him.

Step aside, open wide,

It's the loner.

There was a woman he knew about a year or so ago.

She had something that he needed and he pleaded with her not to go.

On the day that she left, he died, but it did not show.

Know when you see him, nothing can free him.

Step aside, open wide,

It's the loner.

Know when you see him, nothing can free him.
Step aside, open wide,
It's the loner

THE NEEDLE AND THE DAMAGE DONE
I caught you knockin' at my cellar door

I love you, baby, can I have some more

Ooh, ooh, the damage done.

I hit the city and I lost my band

I watched the needle take another man

Gone, gone, the damage done.

I sing the song because I love the man

I know that some of you don't understand

Milk-blood to keep from running out.

I've seen the needle and the damage done

A little part of it in everyone

But every junkie's like a settin' sun

I've seen the needle and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie's like a settin' sun

LOTTA LOVE
It's gonna take a lotta love

To change the way things are.

It's gonna take a lotta love

Or we won't get too far.

So if you are out there waitin'

I hope you show up soon,

'Cause my heart needs relatin' not solitude

It's gonna take a lotta love

To get us thru the night.

It's gonna take a lotta love

To make things work out right.

If you look in my direction

And we don't see eye to eye,

My heart needs protection

And so do I.

Gotta lotta love

Gotta lotta love.

It's gonna take a lotta love

It's gonna take a lotta love

It's gonna take a lotta love

SEDAN DELIVERY
Last night I was cool at the pool hall
Held the table for eleven games
Nothing was easier than the first seven
I beat a woman with varicose veins.
She stopped to see herself in the mirror
Fix her hair and hide heir veins
And she lost the game.

Next day I went to the dentist
He pulled some teeth and I lost some blood
We'd like to thank you for the cards you sent us
My wives and I were all choked up.

I recall how Caesar and Cleo
Made love in the Milky Way
They needed boats and armies to get there
I know there's a better way.
I saw the movie and I read the book
But when it happened to me
I sure was glad I had what it took
To get away.
Gotta get away, gotta get away
Gotta get away, gotta get away

I'm making another delivery
Of chemicals and sacred roots
I'll hold what you have to give me
But I'll use what I have to use.
The lasers are in the lab
The old man is dressed in white clothes
Everybody says he's mad
No one knows the things that he knows.
No one knows, no one knows
No one knows, no one knows

I'm sleepin' in every hallway
I just can't accept the stares
I'm using too many covers
I'm warm now so I don't care.
I'm thinkin' of no one in my mind
Sedan delivery is a job I know I'll keep
It sure was hard to find.
Hard to find. hard to find.

Hard to find. hard to find

POWDERFINGER
Look out, Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river

With a big red beacon, and a flag, and a man on the rail

I think you'd better call John, it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail

And it's less than a mile away

I hope they didn't come to stay

It's got numbers on the side and a gun and it's makin' big waves.

Daddy's gone, my brother's out hunting in the mountains

Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy-Lou

So the powers that be left me here to do the thinkin'

And I just turned twenty-two

I was wonderin' what to do

And the closer they got, the more those feelings grew.

Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassurin'

He told me, red means run, son, numbers add up to nothin'

But when the first shot hit the docks I saw it comin'

Raised my rifle to my eye

Never stopped to wonder why.

Then I saw black, and my face splashed in the sky.

Shelter me from the powder and the finger

Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger

Think of me as one you'd never figured

Would fade away so young

With so much left undone

Remember me to my love, I know I'll miss her.

CORTEZ THE KILLER
He came dancing across the water

With his galleons and guns

Looking for the new world

In that palace in the sun.

On the shore lay Montezuma

With his coca leaves and pearls

In his halls he often wondered

With the secrets of the worlds.

And his subjects gathered 'round him

Like the leaves around a tree

In their clothes of many colors

For the angry gods to see.

And the women all were beautiful

And the men stood straight and strong

They offered life in sacrifice

So that others could go on.

Hate was just a legend

And war was never known

The people worked together

And they lifted many stones.

They carried them to the flatlands

And they died along the way

But they built up with their bare hands

What we still can't do today.

And I know she's living there

And she loves me to this day

I still can't remember when

Or how I lost my way.

He came dancing across the water

Cortez, Cortez

What a killer.

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.

LIKE A HURRICANE
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 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.

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.

HEY HEY, MY MY (INTO THE BLACK)
Hey hey, my my

Rock and roll can never die

There's more to the picture

Than meets the eye.

Hey hey, my my.

Out of the blue and into the black

You pay for this, but they give you that

And once you're gone,

you can't come back

When you're out of the blue and into the black.

The king is gone but he's not forgotten

Is this the story of Johnny Rotten?

It's better to burn out 'cause rust never sleeps

The king is gone but he's not forgotten.

Hey hey, my my

Rock and roll can never die

There's more to the picture

Than meets the eye.

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT
Tonight's the night, tonight's the night

Tonight's the night, tonight's the night

Tonight's the night, tonight's the night

Tonight's the night, tonight's the night.

Bruce Berry was a working man he used to load that Econoline van.

A sparkle was in his eye but his life was in his hands.

Well, late at night when the people were gone he used to pick up my guitar

And sing a song in a shaky voice that was real as the day was long.

Tonight's the night, tonight's the night

Tonight's the night, tonight's the night.

Early in the mornin' at the break of day he used to sleep until the afternoon.

If you never heard him sing I guess you won't too soon.

'Cause people let me tell you It sent a chill up and down my spine

When I picked up the telephone and heard that he'd died out on the mainline.

Tonight's the night, tonight's the night
Tonight's the night, tonight's the night
Tonight's the night, tonight's the night
Tonight's the night, tonight's the night.

Tonight's the night, tonight's the night.