| Buffalo Springfield – On The Way Home Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I've always heard it was a kiss off or F-you to the band and Stephen Stills in particular. Neil was supposed to sing it, but he quit the band, again, so Richie Furay sang it. That view of the lyrics would make since, because it was one of only a few songs that Richie Furay brought with him to Poco in live concerts. Poco still performs it to this day with Rusty Young singing it when Richie's not with the band. And then Neil played his ballad version of the song live for years... | |
| Buffalo Springfield – Rock & Roll Woman Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I've heard its about Grace Slick and also heard a few people who have said that its about Janis Joplin. This is one of the songs on the album Buffalo Springfield Again that does not feature Neil Young on it. According to rumors and I guess you could say legend, it was recorded shortly after David Crosby got fired from the Byrds and the background vocals are him, Stills and Richie Furay. Its a prelude to CSN. | |
| Buffalo Springfield – Flying On The Ground Is Wrong Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Neil Young wrote it and was actually born in Ontario, living in Toronto and other places in ON, including the country, until his parents divorced, and he went with his mother to Winnipeg, Alberta. Alberta's mostly country, but it cool to note that not only did Neil come from Winnipeg, so did Joni Mitchell and Randy Bachman of the Guess Who. and they all knew each other. Neil has credited watching Bachman play in Winnipeg as an influence to his style. This song came out in 1966 and in the following year it was released as a single by the Guess Who, Randy Bachman's band. | |
| Buffalo Springfield – Bluebird Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Its a love song. It's about the same person that Suite: Judy Blue Eyes on the first CSN album is about. Its about Stephen Stills girlfriend at the time, singer/songwriter Judy Collins. Few quick notes on the guitars and the album Buffalo Springfield Again. its both Stephen and Neil Young. Stephen is on the lead acoustic guitar and Neil is the trippy loud electric. Neil had quit Buffalo Springfield while they were recording the song and began to work on a solo album before he heard "Mr. Soul" being played on the radio in LA. He rejoined the band but much of it was already recorded, so he ended up overdubbing electric guitar to a few of the songs, this being one of them. There's a 9 minute version of it somewhere with an even longer guitar solo section. From Neil's attempted solo album, he brought in "Broken Arrow" and "Expecting to Fly", which feature no other member of the band other than Neil and overdubbed vocals by Richie Furay, although the beginning of "Broken Arrow" features "Mr Soul" with everyone in the band, but Neil, with drummer Dewey Martin singing the lead vocals. |
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| Buffalo Springfield – Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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From what I remember its inspired by two events in Neil's early life and references them. First, the person who is ringing the bells and the Clancy that can't sing references a boy that Neil went to school with that would run around ringing a small bell and singing at the top of his lungs. I don't remember what Neil said the boy had, but he was disabled. Someone took the bell from the boy and it took all the joy out of him and he wouldn't sing anymore. Second, the lines "Who's seeing eyes through the crack in the floor, There it is baby, don't you worry no more. Who should be sleepin', but is writing this song, Wishin' and a-hopin' he weren't so damned wrong" These are about Neil himself. He watched an ex-girlfriend of his with another boy through the cracks in a floor. The rest is vague, it seems to deal with the pressures of fame, but more likely about being an outcast or a fear of being misunderstood because this song was actually written well before Buffalo Springfield was together. Stephen Stills and Richie Furay they were in a folk singing group called the Au-Go-Go Singers and they first met Neil Young while they were Thunder Bay, ON in Canada. Neil took the around the town in his hearse, the same one he later drove to LA, and Richie first heard the song performed by Neil in one of the folk clubs and Richie began to sing it and cover it himself, which was one of the reasons Richie ended up singing it on the album and not Neil. |
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| Neil Young – Broken Arrow Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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From what I read in Shakey, which was Neil's authorized biography and featured many quotes from the author's many interviews with Neil, its about several things. Verse one is about the music industry. Neil was caught off guard by the success that Buffalo Springfield was having and actually recorded this song without the band after quitting. He recorded it with Jack Nitchke (spelling?) and it was supposed to be a solo album, but Neil rejoined the band and Richie Furay's background vocals where overdubbed and added later. But "it felt like a dream, they stood and the stage door and begged for a scream" is about the masses of fans that were suddenly at the exits waiting for the band and they tried to get to the "black limousine". Verse two is about growing up and teenage angst. "18 years of American dream" means the first 18 years of life before you're a legal adult in the US. "His mother had told him a trip was a fall" is a reference to an acid trip and "don't mention babies at all" meaning teenage pregnancy, don't get a girl pregnant. If it was about a American GI returning from Vietnam, he would've been older than 18 unless he lied about his age. The swearing on the wall and hanging up his eyelids I don't remember what they were supposed to mean, sorry... Verse 3 is a slight reference to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain who "married for peace" and united the Spanish. In reality, like many have already posted, it is a veiled reference to Kennedy's presidency and assassination. Again, I read this in Shakey. |
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