This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Come on, baby, let's go downtown
Let's go, let's go, let's go downtown
Come on, baby, let's go downtown
Let's go, let's go, let's go downtown
Walk on, talk on, baby tell no lies
Don't you be caught with a tear in your eye
Sure enough, they'll be sellin' stuff
When the moon begins to rise
Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man
And the light shines in your eyes, yeah
Come on, baby, let's go downtown
Let's go, let's go, let's go downtown
Come on, baby, let's go downtown
Let's go, let's go, let's go downtown
Snake eyes, French fries and I got lots of gas
Full moon and a jumpin' tune, now you don't have to ask
Sure enough, they'll be sellin' stuff
When the moon begins to rise
Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man
And the light shines in your eyes. yeah
Come on, baby, let's go downtown
Let's go, let's go, let's go downtown
Come on, baby, let's go downtown
Let's go, let's go, let's go downtown
Walk on, talk on, baby tell no lies
Don't you be caught with a tear in your eye
Sure enough, they'll be sellin' stuff
When the moon begins to rise
Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man
And the light shines in your eyes, yeah
Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man
And the light shines in your eyes, come on now
Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man
And the light shines in your eyes, yeah
Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man
And the light shines in your eyes, yeah
Let's go, let's go, let's go downtown
Come on, baby, let's go downtown
Let's go, let's go, let's go downtown
Walk on, talk on, baby tell no lies
Don't you be caught with a tear in your eye
Sure enough, they'll be sellin' stuff
When the moon begins to rise
Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man
And the light shines in your eyes, yeah
Come on, baby, let's go downtown
Let's go, let's go, let's go downtown
Come on, baby, let's go downtown
Let's go, let's go, let's go downtown
Snake eyes, French fries and I got lots of gas
Full moon and a jumpin' tune, now you don't have to ask
Sure enough, they'll be sellin' stuff
When the moon begins to rise
Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man
And the light shines in your eyes. yeah
Come on, baby, let's go downtown
Let's go, let's go, let's go downtown
Come on, baby, let's go downtown
Let's go, let's go, let's go downtown
Walk on, talk on, baby tell no lies
Don't you be caught with a tear in your eye
Sure enough, they'll be sellin' stuff
When the moon begins to rise
Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man
And the light shines in your eyes, yeah
Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man
And the light shines in your eyes, come on now
Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man
And the light shines in your eyes, yeah
Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man
And the light shines in your eyes, yeah
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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What a great move to include it on Tonight's The Night
Everytime i listen to this song i imagine Neil and Danny standing on stage playing and just having a good time!
@candysays such a shame there’s so few recordings of the original Crazy Horse...
great song to learn on guitar love neil's backup voice up there with my fav's on tonights the night
@cichon123 I think these are some of his best vocals and it's one of my fav. neil songs! Actually Tonite's the Night is my favorite album cause this stuff is coming from the heart!
the song is about scoring heroine
Danny wrote the lyrics except for the "Sure enough, they'll be sellin' stuff When the moon begins to rise. Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man, And the light shines in your eyes" In Young's bio he says that the part he added shows how little he knows about smack. A good song.
A song about scoring heroin, co-written and sung by someone who would die of an overdose a few years later. Within the context of the Tonight's the Night album, which mourns the deaths of Danny Whitten and Bruce Berry, this is like a flashback scene in a movie, showing how things were before the tragedy - young, carefree and reckless.
This is one badass rock song. The interplay and synergy of Crazy Horse with Danny Whitten and Neil might seem less obvious than it really was. Playing with Danny brought out a musical side of Neil's music that was way smoking hot. And the vocal harmonies of the Horse have not reached the soulful just-rightness (I don't want to say perfection) as they were with Danny in the mix... but maybe that's exactly what it was.
CSNY & W ! What could have been, if just for the moment (s).
It’s funny what you think you hear when you’re young and innocent... When I first got this I remember thinking it was just about these guys hanging out downtown, probably drinking beers, they get a bite to eat, which results in one of them becoming flatulent! “Steak house, French fries, and I got lots of gas!” and after a drink too many it sounds like they get pulled over for DUI “ Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man and the light shines in your eyes”.., Many moons (and enough NY biographies, books, articles, interviews, etc.) later I get it, but it makes me laugh thinking what my first impression of this tune was, LoL.