One of my favorite Neil tunes, pretty obscure and sort of under the radar for the casual fan. I understand that Neil recorded this one while sitting next to a campfire, thus the crackling and popping of the burning wood adds to the moody tone of this lamenting love song.
As far as its meaning, Neil uses the metaphor of salmon swimming upstream to spawn to express how strong his resolve is in regards to his search for love and happiness. I suppose it could be pretty easy to slip into the "I'm never going to put myself out there again, I'm never going to let myself get hurt again" mode, but Neil shuns that with this song.
"It has often been my dream to live with one who wasn't there." Perhaps my favorite Neil song line of all time. Not sure what that part means and I actually found this website hoping I could get some ideas. Anybody??
"It has often been my dream to live with one who wasn't there." - Well, for me, it´s very straight, to live with someone you dream about very often - for me it´s a fictitious person - just a picture of a sweet girl.
"It has often been my dream to live with one who wasn't there." - Well, for me, it´s very straight, to live with someone you dream about very often - for me it´s a fictitious person - just a picture of a sweet girl.
"Got the will to love" - I don´t know what you think about it - for me it means: never give up on love even when you don´t have one to share your love with - but love can be felt in many different ways so - for me it´s about being...
"Got the will to love" - I don´t know what you think about it - for me it means: never give up on love even when you don´t have one to share your love with - but love can be felt in many different ways so - for me it´s about being in love with a girl who isn´t there..
@danvtemt Yet another brilliant composition - not to mention, performance - by the great NY. He finds himself some seemingly-original takes on the common rock n roll that’s most of what’s out there (I only use “seemingly” as a signifier that, NOTHING is TRULY original, it’s all been done before, and a lot longer ago than any of us could believe, probably…Anyway, what we listeners might call “original” is, generally speaking, an artist taking just a slightly-different angle to tackle an Old, and tired, subject, that’s been discussed to death over the ages lol), and it’s not just “seemingly”, it...
@danvtemt Yet another brilliant composition - not to mention, performance - by the great NY. He finds himself some seemingly-original takes on the common rock n roll that’s most of what’s out there (I only use “seemingly” as a signifier that, NOTHING is TRULY original, it’s all been done before, and a lot longer ago than any of us could believe, probably…Anyway, what we listeners might call “original” is, generally speaking, an artist taking just a slightly-different angle to tackle an Old, and tired, subject, that’s been discussed to death over the ages lol), and it’s not just “seemingly”, it IS “original”, I just mean to say that even the greatest of song writers aren’t beginning with a blank slate, they’re building on top of what came before them have built…NOTHING is created out of whole Cloth or appears out of thin air, and anyway, what we know as “recorded history” is really just the imaginings of minds, brilliant and otherwise…
I’m sure SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, has used or at least thought of using, the metaphor of a salmon swimming upstream to breed, to equate with human love, but it’s all in the execution…
STAR OF BETHLEHEM, same lp, has a not entirely dissimilar theme, if you will, addressing one of those things in our shared history that we see as an “archetype”, like the Star of Bethlehem, which was probably (maybe just “possibly”?), which Neil says wasn’t limited to ancient times, there’s a Star Of Bethlehem in all our hearts, and when the time Is right to HEAL, and to move FORWARD, to free yourself of the morass of the past, in your mind, you will KNOW it when it happens…don’t despair, the SoB (!) is not something “ancient”, it’s right here in your chest, in your mind, just let it BE, and, again, don’t despair, at least not because you think there’s no LOVE for you in this world…it’s always nearby, in YOUR heart, awaiting the end of its hibernation…
Or maybe I have no fuckin idea and just LOVE knowing that the MASTERS like Neil-Bob-Bruce are still out there, doing it, because, while it’s NEVER ok to get bogged down in the past, it’s ALWAYS ok to look back, just to see where you came from, and therefore, where you’re going…
One of my favorite Neil tunes, pretty obscure and sort of under the radar for the casual fan. I understand that Neil recorded this one while sitting next to a campfire, thus the crackling and popping of the burning wood adds to the moody tone of this lamenting love song.
As far as its meaning, Neil uses the metaphor of salmon swimming upstream to spawn to express how strong his resolve is in regards to his search for love and happiness. I suppose it could be pretty easy to slip into the "I'm never going to put myself out there again, I'm never going to let myself get hurt again" mode, but Neil shuns that with this song.
"It has often been my dream to live with one who wasn't there." Perhaps my favorite Neil song line of all time. Not sure what that part means and I actually found this website hoping I could get some ideas. Anybody??
"It has often been my dream to live with one who wasn't there." - Well, for me, it´s very straight, to live with someone you dream about very often - for me it´s a fictitious person - just a picture of a sweet girl.
"It has often been my dream to live with one who wasn't there." - Well, for me, it´s very straight, to live with someone you dream about very often - for me it´s a fictitious person - just a picture of a sweet girl.
"Got the will to love" - I don´t know what you think about it - for me it means: never give up on love even when you don´t have one to share your love with - but love can be felt in many different ways so - for me it´s about being...
"Got the will to love" - I don´t know what you think about it - for me it means: never give up on love even when you don´t have one to share your love with - but love can be felt in many different ways so - for me it´s about being in love with a girl who isn´t there..
@danvtemt Yet another brilliant composition - not to mention, performance - by the great NY. He finds himself some seemingly-original takes on the common rock n roll that’s most of what’s out there (I only use “seemingly” as a signifier that, NOTHING is TRULY original, it’s all been done before, and a lot longer ago than any of us could believe, probably…Anyway, what we listeners might call “original” is, generally speaking, an artist taking just a slightly-different angle to tackle an Old, and tired, subject, that’s been discussed to death over the ages lol), and it’s not just “seemingly”, it...
@danvtemt Yet another brilliant composition - not to mention, performance - by the great NY. He finds himself some seemingly-original takes on the common rock n roll that’s most of what’s out there (I only use “seemingly” as a signifier that, NOTHING is TRULY original, it’s all been done before, and a lot longer ago than any of us could believe, probably…Anyway, what we listeners might call “original” is, generally speaking, an artist taking just a slightly-different angle to tackle an Old, and tired, subject, that’s been discussed to death over the ages lol), and it’s not just “seemingly”, it IS “original”, I just mean to say that even the greatest of song writers aren’t beginning with a blank slate, they’re building on top of what came before them have built…NOTHING is created out of whole Cloth or appears out of thin air, and anyway, what we know as “recorded history” is really just the imaginings of minds, brilliant and otherwise…
I’m sure SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, has used or at least thought of using, the metaphor of a salmon swimming upstream to breed, to equate with human love, but it’s all in the execution…
STAR OF BETHLEHEM, same lp, has a not entirely dissimilar theme, if you will, addressing one of those things in our shared history that we see as an “archetype”, like the Star of Bethlehem, which was probably (maybe just “possibly”?), which Neil says wasn’t limited to ancient times, there’s a Star Of Bethlehem in all our hearts, and when the time Is right to HEAL, and to move FORWARD, to free yourself of the morass of the past, in your mind, you will KNOW it when it happens…don’t despair, the SoB (!) is not something “ancient”, it’s right here in your chest, in your mind, just let it BE, and, again, don’t despair, at least not because you think there’s no LOVE for you in this world…it’s always nearby, in YOUR heart, awaiting the end of its hibernation…
Or maybe I have no fuckin idea and just LOVE knowing that the MASTERS like Neil-Bob-Bruce are still out there, doing it, because, while it’s NEVER ok to get bogged down in the past, it’s ALWAYS ok to look back, just to see where you came from, and therefore, where you’re going…