Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)

Neil Young: Self

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• Neil Young : I got a beautiful young girl. She's just turned 21. She's going back for her last year of college pretty soon. She'd probably be embarrassed if I said anything more about her. You know how that is. You can't say much. Anyway, there was a time I used to write these songs for girls my own age. I got a few left in me. So, this is what you might call a, kind of a 'empty nester' song. It's a new genre. They might even have a new kind of radio station for 'em.

  [singing] 

  Neil Young : When your summer days come tumbling down, And you find yourself alone, Then you can come back and be with me, Just close your eyes and I'll be there, Listen to the sound, Of this old heart beating for you, Yes I'd miss you, But I never want to hold you down, You might say I'm here for you...

• Neil Young : [singing]  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?

• Neil Young : I just want to play well and want to, you know, share the stage with my friends. Give the best I can. We're gonna get in there and let the muse have us. Take a shot. Send it out.

• Neil Young : [singing]  It's a long road behind me, And I miss you now, If you follow every dream, You might get lost...

• Neil Young : [singing]  Green to green, Red to red, Yellow to yellow in the light, Black to black when the evening comes, Blue to blue through the night...

• Neil Young : [singing]  I just want to thank you, For all of the things you've done, I'm thinking about you, I just want to send my love, I send my best to you, That's my message of love, For all the things you did, I can never thank you enough, Feel like I'm falling, Falling off the face of the earth...

• Neil Young : [singing]  Amber waves of grain bow in the prairie wind, I'm hearing Willie singing on the radio again, That song from nine eleven keeps ringing in my head...

• Neil Young : [singing]  When God made me, Was he planning only for believers, Or for those who just had faith, Did he envision all wars, That were fought in his name, Did he say there was only one way, To be close to him, When God made me...

• Neil Young : I look around Nashville today, there's a lot more cars, there's a lot more new buildings, and I often wonder what Hank Williams would have thought. He stepped out of that stage door, on his way to Tootsie's, and looked up and saw the Gaylord Entertainment Center. So things have changed; but, the spirit's still here. And that's a beautiful thing.

  [singing] 

  Neil Young : In the morning when I wake up and listen to the sound, Of the birds outside on a roof, I try to ignore what the paper says, And I try not to read all the news, And I'll hold you if you had a bad dream, And I hope that it never comes true, 'Cause you and I been through so many things together, And the sun starts climbing the roof, It's a dream, It's only a dream, Just a memory, Fading away...

• Neil Young : [singing]  There's a rumbling in the bedroom and a flashing of light, There's the old laughing lady, everything is alright...

• Neil Young : [singing]  I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner, For a heart of gold, It's these expressions, I never give, That keep me searching, For a heart of gold, And I'm getting old...

• Neil Young : [singing]  I caught you knockin' at my cellar door, I love you, baby, can I have some more?

• Neil Young : Being a rich hippie for the first time, I'd purchased a ranch. And I still live there today. And there was a couple living on it that were the caretakers - an old gentleman named Luis Avila and his wife Clara. And there was this old blue jeep there and Luis took me for a - took me for a ride in this blue jeep. And he gets me up there on the top side of place and there's this lake up there that fed all the pastures. And he says, "Tell me now, how does a young man like yourself have enough money to buy a place like this?" And I said, "Well, I'm just lucky, Luis. I'm just real lucky." He said, "Well, that's the darnedest thing I ever heard." And I wrote this song for him.

  [singing] 

  Neil Young : Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were, Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were, Old man look at my life, Twenty four, and there's so much more...

• Neil Young : [singing]  One of these days, I'm gonna sit down and write a long letter, To all the good friends I've known, And I'm gonna try, To thank them all for the good times together, Though so apart we've grown...

• Neil Young : Is there a guitar player in the house?

  [audience laughs seeing seven musicians on stage with acoustic guitars] 

  Neil Young : This song here, I recorded here in Nashville and Nicolette Larson sang the song with me. We'd like to do this one for her.

  [singing] 

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

• Neil Young : [singing]  That old King was a friend of mine, Never knew a dog that was half as fine, I may find one, you never do know, 'Cause I still got a long way to go...

• Neil Young : This song here is written by Ian Tyson. He's a Canadian. He's livin' out in Calgary on his ranch right now. But, when I was just a kid, 16 or 17 years old, I went to this place near Winnipeg, where I grew up, and its called Falcon Lake. And its just one of those first times when you really got away from home and were on your own. I was just kind of feelin' it for the first time. And there was this little, kind of a restaurant place with a jukebox in it. It was there and I used to go there and I think I spent all my money playing this next song, over and over again. It was the most beautiful record that I've ever heard in my life and I just could not get enough of it. And so, I don't have the record with me here, but, I'm gonna sing it with my friends. We'll see what we can do.

  [singing] 

  Neil Young : Think I'll go out to Alberta, Weather's good there in the Fall, I got some friends that I could go to working for, Still, I wish you'd change your mind, If I ask you one more time, But we've been through that a hundred times or more

  Neil Young , Pegi Young , Emmylou Harris : Four strong winds that blow lonely, Seven seas that run high, All those things that don't change, come what may, If the good times are all gone, Then I'm bound for moving on, I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way...