Expecting to Fly Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Xavier624 

Cover art for Expecting to Fly lyrics by Neil Young

Interesting to hear this on the soundtrack of the Jennifer Lawrence movie 'Joy'.

To me it just sounds like the typical emotions of a young guy who set up his life around a girl and how he felt as the events unfolded and his expectations fell apart.

I get a kick out of how every 60's and 70's song is about drugs, Richard Nixon, or some other weird thing. I suppose it could be , but I'm going with Occam's Razor on this one until Young says differently.

This is exactly the way I was thinking in my early 20's when the dream girl decided I wasn't the one and moved on.

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