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Wake up all you sleeping beauties
More are being born while you rest
They're pipin' music in
We all have to sin
Someday
We all have to sin
Someday.
Rommel wore a ring on his finger
He only took it off
when he flew his plane
Once he told me why
He said we all have to fly
Someday
We all have to fly
Someday.
The T.V. preacher can't be bothered
With those petty things
He stays a step removed so they say
He's pipin' music in
We all have to sin
Someday
We all have to sin
Someday.
Workin' on that great Alaska pipeline
Many men were lost in the pipe
They went to fuelin' cars
How smog might turn to stars
Someday
Smog might turn to stars
Someday.
Hold me baby, put your arms around me
Give me all the love you have to give
Tomorrow won't be late
We won't have to wait
Someday
We won't have to wait
Someday.
More are being born while you rest
They're pipin' music in
We all have to sin
Someday
We all have to sin
Someday.
He only took it off
when he flew his plane
Once he told me why
He said we all have to fly
Someday
We all have to fly
Someday.
With those petty things
He stays a step removed so they say
He's pipin' music in
We all have to sin
Someday
We all have to sin
Someday.
Many men were lost in the pipe
They went to fuelin' cars
How smog might turn to stars
Someday
Smog might turn to stars
Someday.
Give me all the love you have to give
Tomorrow won't be late
We won't have to wait
Someday
We won't have to wait
Someday.
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wow o0ver 2 years an no one commented on this...wow...this is my favorite song on Freedom but the lyrics are wrong...well theyre all right except the first verse up above doesnt exist in the song (unless its in the live version...i never heard this song live so i wouldnt know) anyways...ill give you a verse by verse break down
1st verse (not counting the fist verse up above): this guy likes to fly planes and he dies in a plane crash. in the lines "we all have to fly someday" flying is basically a metaphor for death. flyin to heaven. and it is sayng that no matter what we all have to die someday.
2nd verse: this stanza basically says how everyone is going to heaven because we really all have to sin someday...i mean how many people never cursed ever in their entire lives? none. well unless they were babies or a small child. but thats besides the point...everyone has sined once in their life...it doesnt mean theyre going to hell.
3rd verse: this is a tough one...it talks about the oil pips in alaska and how there many men working in the pipes lost their lives. i dont really know much about the alaskin pipelines but basically the message is that the lost and forgotten will be remembered someday.
4th verse: this one talks about guy in his death bed asking his wife to hold him. (this part reminds me of when my dad died. and my mom and all are familly were around him for his final miniutes and my mom was holding him) the lines "we wont have to wait someday" means that someday in the future they dont have to wait to be together again because when she dies they will be together again in heaven.
so to cap up this song is about death and heaven
Rommel was a WWII Nazi Germany general. He was famous for his tank, and defensive tactics. Eventually he tried to kill Hitler with others and when it failed he was killed (basically) so not just any guy!
@iceberg210 I don't think Erwin Rommel was the Rommel being cited in this song. Apart from anything else, he was long dead before he could have ever spoken to Neil, and furthermore, while he may have been able to drive a tank, I certainly never heard of him flying a plane.
@iceberg210 I don't think Erwin Rommel was the Rommel being cited in this song. Apart from anything else, he was long dead before he could have ever spoken to Neil, and furthermore, while he may have been able to drive a tank, I certainly never heard of him flying a plane.
thanks for that clarification. If someone else hadn't explained who Rommel was I was going to.
@jessy A little Neil Young 101: Regarding names being dropped in songs: Neil is usually pretty vague on names and who they actually are or represent. Unless he's not being vague. For example in Ohio, 10 soldiers and Nixons coming, IS actually Richard M Nixon, the President at the time. He mentions Chris Rock in a song or too and I believe he talking specifically about MR.Chris Rock. But also, he's vague and symbolic at times, with names maybe only rhyming for the song. Like, I believe Emmylou in Powderfinger is certainly NOT Emmylou Harris and it is a waste...
@jessy A little Neil Young 101: Regarding names being dropped in songs: Neil is usually pretty vague on names and who they actually are or represent. Unless he's not being vague. For example in Ohio, 10 soldiers and Nixons coming, IS actually Richard M Nixon, the President at the time. He mentions Chris Rock in a song or too and I believe he talking specifically about MR.Chris Rock. But also, he's vague and symbolic at times, with names maybe only rhyming for the song. Like, I believe Emmylou in Powderfinger is certainly NOT Emmylou Harris and it is a waste of time to go searching for meaning where there is none. 'Lenora' in Greendale, probably not anyone we would know, it just kind of worked on that album. So in this case, I really truly believe Neil Young is Not singing about a Nazi General aka "The Desert Fox" and it's pointless to try and find meaning in that association. More than likely it was his Father that took airplane rides to go meet other women (I think) and he would take off his ring when he flied because he was no longer "Married" on the plane.
@jessy There is another spelling of Rommel, which is Romuald in French which may clear up the confusion, although Rommel is usually the name printed in lyric sheets. At the same time it's a common enough surname in Germany and no doubt some German immigrants to the US were called Rommel. There's no connection whatsoever to the German General and as you rightly point out, no connection between Emmylou in Powderfinger and Emmylou Harris either. It just so happens that Emmylou is a Southern name, not untypical of hillbilles and the like, and the family in Powderfinger are portrayed as...
@jessy There is another spelling of Rommel, which is Romuald in French which may clear up the confusion, although Rommel is usually the name printed in lyric sheets. At the same time it's a common enough surname in Germany and no doubt some German immigrants to the US were called Rommel. There's no connection whatsoever to the German General and as you rightly point out, no connection between Emmylou in Powderfinger and Emmylou Harris either. It just so happens that Emmylou is a Southern name, not untypical of hillbilles and the like, and the family in Powderfinger are portrayed as being distanced from mainstream society, most probably involved in some illegal activitiy that the powers that be decided had to be curtailed. I know there was an "illegal" native settlement on a river in Canada that was suppressed by the government but I'm not sure when.