NEIL YOUNG: Homegrown (2020)

1. Separate Ways

2. Try

3. Mexico

4. Love Is a Rose

5. Homegrown

6. Florida

7. Kansas

8. We Don't Smoke It No More

9. White Line

10. Vacancy

11. Little Wing

12. Star of Bethlehem

SEPARATE WAYS

I won't apologize

The light shone from in your eyes

It isn't gone

And it will soon come back again

We go our separate ways

Lookin' for better days

Sharin' our little boy

Who grew from joy back then

And it's all because

Of that love we knew, babe

That makes the world go 'round

Yes it do, yes it do, oh

Well it's all because of that love we knew, babe

That makes the world go 'round

Separate ways

Me for me, you for you

Happiness is never through

It's only a change of ways

And that is nothing new

I'm feeling better now

A bit more alive somehow

My eyes are open

And my heart is pouring through

And it's all because of that love we knew, babe

That makes the world go 'round

Yes it do, yes it do, oh

Yes it do

It's all because of that love for you, babe

That made the world go separate ways

Separate ways

Means that we'll go separate ways

TRY

Darlin', the door is open

To my heart and I've been hopin'

That you won't be the one

To struggle with the key

We’ve got lots of time

To get together if we try

The waitin' time is over

No man sees around the corner

Walkin' in the rain and comin' home dry

There's something missin' there

It's easier to care and try

And I try to wash my hands

And I try to make amends

And I try to count my friends

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Ooh, ooh, ooh

I'd like to take a chance

But shit, Mary, I can't dance

So here's to lookin' up your old address

Holly what a mess

We’ve gotta take the rest and try

We’ve got lots of time

To get together if we try

We’ve got lots of time

To get together if we try

MEXICO

Off, the feeling's gone

Why is it so hard to hang on

To your love

Oh, the things we do

To live beyond the fears

And move on through the years

Think I'll go to Mexico

Gonna take my time, go down slow

Making love in Mexico

Think I'll go to Mexico

Oh, those sandy beaches

Daddy is a travelin' man

LOVE IS A ROSE

Love is a rose but you better not pick it

It only grows when it's on the vine.

A handful of thorns and you'll know you've missed it

You lose your love when you say the word "mine".

I wanna see what's never been seen,

I wanna live that age old dream.

Come on, lads, we can go together

Let's take the best right now,

Take the best right now.

I wanna go to an old hoe-down

Long ago in a western town.

Pick me up cause my feet are draggin'

Give me a lift and I'll hay your wagon.

Love is a rose but you better not pick it

It only grows when it's on the vine.

A handful of thorns and you'll know you've missed it

You lose your love when you say the word "mine".

Mine, mine.

Love is a rose, love is a rose.

Love is a rose, love is a rose.

HOMEGROWN

Homegrown's all right with me.

Homegrown is the way it should be.

Homegrown is a good thing.

Plant that bell and let it ring.

The sun comes up in the morning,

Shines that light around.

One day, without no warning,

Things start jumping up from the ground.

Well, homegrown's all right with me.

Homegrown is the way it should be.

Homegrown is a good thing.

Plant that bell and let it ring.

FLORIDA

Let's go to Florida

Palm trees and shit man (OK)

Palm trees (here we go) and humid weather

It was like a town in Florida in the fifties you know

I don't know, there's a lot of white buildings

They were really white. I could see them

They were about seven or eight stories tall

All the people were walking around

And it just looks so good, you know

They all had, uh, blue dresses and nice pants on

You know they're all of them are drinking pop

From you know with straws in the bottles

Things were lookin' you know, sun was shining so bright

Downtown looked incredible, I couldn't believe it

There was gliders flyin' around in the sky

These guys flying around in gliders, you know

And they'd swoop between the buildings and they

They go down the alley ways, you know

And make a sharp left and a sharp right

And uh, it's like they, I couldn't believe

It was really happening you know

So I said, you know, "I don't believe this. This isn't real"

And just as I said that, this guy in the glider

Was coming right through the center of town

And he ran into the building in the middle of town

Fifteen story high building, right in the center of town

He started tumbling through the air, you know

And his glider crashed in the alley and, uh

I noticed this couple on the, uh, on the parking lot

And, uh, they, they were just walking together

In conversation you know like nothing

Else was happening and, uh, looking up

They noticed a tumbling man coming through the air

And uh, he, he came right down and landed

Right on them and made and awful sound and, uh—

I ran over there, I could see that they

Were really gone, you know

But on the ground beside them was this little baby, dressed in— it just had a red blanket wrapped around it, so I picked it up and took it to my car over on the corner which wasn't too far away and put it in the back seat

I don't know if it was a boy or a girl; I didn't look, I just put it down

It was sleeping and I looked and a crowd had gathered on a parking lot

This beautiful lady was coming down the street and I looked at her

And she looked right at me and she said

"That's my baby in the back of your car there"

I said "Oh no, that baby belongs to that, to that dead couple on the parking lot"

And she said "No, no you're wrong, you're wrong

What happened to them?"

KANSAS

I feel like I just woke up

from a bad dream

And it's so good to have you

sleeping by my side

Although I'm not so sure

if I even know your name

Hold on, baby, hold on

We can go gliding through the air

Far from the jeers and lies

Yeah you are the one

I'm talkin' to this morning

With your mind so fine

and your friendly body lying

In my bungalow with stucco

With glory and sunset spa

Hold on, baby, hold on

It doesn't matter if you're the one

'Cause we'll know before we're done

WE DON'T SMOKE IT NO MORE

We don't flaunt it, we don't lick it

We don't knock it, we don't kick it

We don't smoke it no more

We don't smoke it no more

We don't smoke it no more

We don't smoke it no more

We don't smoke it no more

WHITE LINE

I came to you when I needed a rest

You took my love and put it to the test

I saw some things that I never would have guessed

Well I've been down but I'm coming back up again

And I'm rollin' down the open road

Where my true love, she lies waiting

Right now I'm thinking 'bout these things I know

But the daylight will soon be breaking

You were my raft and I let you slide

It seemed like such a long easy ride

I was adrift on a river of pride

Feels like a railroad I pull a whole load behind me

That old white line is friend of mine

And it's good times that we've been making

Right now I'm thinking 'bout those things that I know

But the daylight will soon be breaking, breaking

VACANCY

Who are you? Where are you goin' to?

What's your name? Why aren't you showin' through?

I look in your eyes and I don't know what's there

You poison me with that long, vacant stare

You dress like her and she walks in your words

You frown at me and then you smile at her

Are you my friend? Are you my enemy?

Can we pretend to live in harmony?

You come through in the weirdest way

You copy her with the words that you say

I need that girl like the night needs the day

I don't need you getting in my way

Vacancy, vacancy

Vacancy, vacancy

Vacancy, vacancy

Vacancy, vacancy

Who are you? Where are you goin' to?

What's your name? Why aren't you showin' through?

LITTLE WING

All her friends call her Little Wing

But she flies rings around them all

She comes to town when the children sing

And leaves them feathers if they fall

She leaves her feathers if they fall

Little Wing, don't fly away

When the summer turns to fall

Don't you know some people say

The winter is the best time of them all

Winter is the best of all.

STAR OF BETHLEHEM

Ain't it hard when you wake up in the morning

And you find out that those other days are gone?

All you have is memories of happiness

Lingerin' on

All your dreams and your lovers won't protect you

They're only passing through you in the end

They'll leave you stripped of all that they can get to

And wait for you to come back again

Yet still a light is shining

From that lamp on down the hall

Maybe the star of Bethlehem

Wasn't a star at all