“Needle of Death” (Bert Jansch cover)
When sadness fills your heart
And sorrow hides the longing to be free
When things go wrong each day
You fix your mind to escape your misery
Your troubled young life
Had made you turn
To a needle of death
How strange, your happy words
Have ceased to bring a smile from everyone
How tears have filled the eyes
Of friends that you once had walked among
Your troubled young life
Had made you turn
To a needle of death
One grain of pure white snow
Dissolved in blood spread quickly to your brain
In peace your mind withdraws
Your death so near your soul can’t feel no pain
Your troubled young life
Had made you turn
To a needle of death
Your mother stands a’cryin’
While to the earth your body’s slowly cast
Your father stands in silence
Caressing every young dream of the past
Your troubled young life
Had made you turn
To a needle of death
Through ages, man’s desires
To free his mind, to release his very soul
Has proved to all who live
That death itself is freedom for evermore
And your troubled young life
Will make you turn
To a needle of death
“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.
“Driftin’ Back”
I’m driftin’ now now, hey now now
I’m driftin’ back Dreaming about the way things sound now
Write about them in my book
Worry that you can’t hear me now
And feel the time I took To help you feel this feeling
Let you ride along
Dreaming about the way you feel now
When you hear my song I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ backI’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ backIn my meditation
I block out all my thoughts
When they come back I push them out
Like Jesus had a rock
They pushed in front of this cave now
They rolled across the ground
Hey now now, hey now now
They rolled across the ground
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
Here’s how I got my mantra
Gave them thirty five bucks now
Gave it to the Maharishi
It went to the organisation
Excuse my religion
Dreaming ‘bout the way things feel now
Write it in my book
Blocking out all the thoughts now
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
Hey now now, hey now now
I’m driftin’ back
Hey now now, hey now now
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I used to dig Picasso
I used to dig Picasso
Hey now now, hey now now
I used to dig Picasso
Then the big tech giant came along
And turned him into wallpaper
Hey now now, hey now now
I used to dig Picasso
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
Don’t want my mp3
Don’t want my mp3
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
When you hear my song now
You only get five percent
You used to get it all
You used to get it all
Blocking out my anger
Blocking out my thoughts
Blocking out my anger now
Blocking out my thoughts
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
Gonna get me a hip hop haircut
Gonna get a hip hop haircut
Gonna get a hip hop haircut
Hey now now, hey now now
Hey now now, hey now now
Blocking out my anger
Finding my religion
I might be a Pagan
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
I’m driftin’ back
“Eu começava a sentir que o que eu mais queria era compor. Compus mais algumas músicas e comecei a tocá-las para as pessoas da cidadezinha. Algumas delas disseram que gostavam do que eu estava fazendo.
Um dia, saí do apartamento sem pagar porque não tinha dinheiro para o aluguel. Fui dormir no chão do apartamento de Vicky Taylor, acima do Night Owl, um clube na Avenue Road, ao norte do Village. Vicky era uma cantora folk que estava batalhando no Village, e os pais dela bancavam o apartamento. Ela tinha um papel importante no ambiente de músicos e hippies; era um verdadeiro ímã, e todo mundo a conhecia. Tinha cabelo comprido, liso, pretíssimo. Todos nós tentávamos fazer alguma coisa no cenário musical. Um dos lps que escutávamos com Vicky, e que eu adorava em especial, era o de Bert Jansch. Seu jeito de cantar e de tocar guitarra era magistral. Nunca me esqueci disso e aprendi muito com ele.
Vicky também era grande fã de Bert.
John Kay, que viria a cantar “Born to be wild” com a Steppenwolf, também dormia no
chão, em frente à lareira em que queimávamos carvão branco. Os dois podiam dormir ali,
escutando discos e zoando. John me mostrou umas coisas legais com a guitarra, que ajudaram
a definir meu jeito de tocar.”
“Prefiro ser chato e repetir as mesmas palavras, porque é mais fiel ao que realmente sou. Isso pode não funcionar para você, se for do tipo que se orgulha de ter um ótimo vocabulário.”
Consegue sentir isso?
Neil Young – A Letter Home tracklist (lançamento 17.05, via Third Man Records)
01 A Letter Home intro
02 Changes (Phil Ochs Cover)
03 Girl From the North Country (Bob Dylan Cover)
04 Needle of Death (Bert Jansch Cover)
05 Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot Cover)
06 Crazy (Willie Nelson Cover)
07 Reason to Believe (Tim Hardin Cover)
08 On the Road Again (Willie Nelson Cover)
09 If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot Cover)
10 Since I Met You Baby (Ivory Joe Hunter Cover)
11 My Hometown (Bruce Springsteen Cover)
12 I Wonder If I Care as Much (Don Everly Cover)
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