Neil's music lives right on the thin tight-rope line between etherial spirituality and sensual physicality. Wheras The Doors, for instance, are much more on the physical side, and Bob Dylan, who I admit I like better than Neil Young, but for different reasons, is more on the side of the physical, or external. Somebody commented once, I read in Neil's autobiography "Shakey", that "Neil writes what's on the inside, Dylan writes everything around him". And that's true. But Neil's poetry is in that it isn't just "I'm happy" or "I'm sad" or "love me" or "this is what I feel" he creates a collage of his inner world using images from the outer world, archetypes and stereotypes and pop-artish images that create this very surreal and fantastic world. This is a great song.
Neil's music lives right on the thin tight-rope line between etherial spirituality and sensual physicality. Wheras The Doors, for instance, are much more on the physical side, and Bob Dylan, who I admit I like better than Neil Young, but for different reasons, is more on the side of the physical, or external. Somebody commented once, I read in Neil's autobiography "Shakey", that "Neil writes what's on the inside, Dylan writes everything around him". And that's true. But Neil's poetry is in that it isn't just "I'm happy" or "I'm sad" or "love me" or "this is what I feel" he creates a collage of his inner world using images from the outer world, archetypes and stereotypes and pop-artish images that create this very surreal and fantastic world. This is a great song.