Neil Young : Comes a Time

Rock / Canada
(1978 - Reprise Records)
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1. GOIN' BACK

In a foreign land
There were creatures at play
Running hand in hand
Needing no where to stay
Driven to the mountains high
They were sunken in the cities deep
Living in my sleep

I feel like goin' back
Back where there's nowhere to stay
When fire filled the sky
I'll still remember that day
These rocks I'm climbing down
Have already left the ground
Careening through space

I used to build these buildings
I used to walk next to you
Their shadows tore us apart
And now we do what we do
Driven to the mountains high
Sunken in the cities deep
Living in our sleep

I feel like goin' back
Back where there's nowhere to stay


2. COMES A TIME

Comes a time when you're drifting
Comes a time when you settle down
Comes a light feeling's lifting
Lift that baby right up off the ground

Oh, this old world keeps spinning round
It's a wonder tall trees ain't laying down
There comes a time

You and I we were captured
We took our souls and we flew away
We were right we were giving
That's how we kept what we gave away

Oh, this old world keeps spinning round
It's a wonder tall trees ain't laying down
There comes a time


3. LOOK OUT FOR MY LOVE

There's a lot to learn
For wasting time
There's a heart that burns
There's an open mind

Look out for my love, look out for my love
Look out for my love, look out for my love
You own it
You own it now
You own it

There's a weight on you
But you can't feel it
Living like I do
It's hard for you to see it

Was I hurt too bad
Can I show you daylight
How could I be sad
When I know that you might

Look out for my love, look out for my love
Look out for my love, look out for my love

Look out for my love
It's in your neighborhood
I know things are gonna change
But I can't say bad or good

Silver wings of morning
Shining in the gray day
While the ice is forming
On a lonely runway

Hydraulic wipers pumping
'Til the window glistens
Something saying something
No one seems to listen

Men with walkie-talkies
Men with flashlights waving
Up upon the tower
Time reads daylight savings

I'm home again to you babe
You know it makes me wonder
Sitting in the quiet slipstream
In the thunder

Look out for my love, look out for my love
Look out for my love, look out for my love


4. LOTTA LOVE

It's gonna take a lotta love
To change the way things are
It's gonna take a lotta love
Or we won't get too far

So if you look in my direction
And we don't see eye to eye
My heart needs protection
And so do I

It's gonna take a lotta love
To get us thru the night.
It's gonna take a lotta love
To make things work out right

So if you are out there waiting
I hope you show up soon
'Cause my heart needs relating
Not solitude

Gotta lotta love
Gotta lotta love

It's gonna take a lotta love
To change the way things are
It's gonna take a lotta love
Or we won't get too far

It's gonna take a lotta love
To change the way things are
It's gonna take a lotta love
Or we won't get too far


5. PEACE OF MIND

You know it takes a long, long time
You know it takes a long, long time
You love her so and still you know
That you will never want to let her go
Unless you leave her first
Then you come out on top
But, still there's just one thing
You haven't got.

Peace of mind
Like when you treated her kind
It's hard to face that open space.

You know it takes a long, long time
You know it takes a long, long time
When first you gave and shared your soul
Showed her all those things that take their toll
She knows your weak spot
But, she still gets you hot
So you do it again
Reveal what lies within.

And go for peace of mind
Like when you treated her kind
It's hard to face that open space.

You're looking for peace of mind
Anywhere you can find
Still searching for peace of mind.

You know it takes a long, long time
You know it takes a long, long time.


6. HUMAN HIGHWAY

I come down from the misty mountain
I got lost on the human highway
Take my head refreshing fountain
Take my eyes from what they've seen.
Take my head and change my mind
How could people get so unkind.

I come down from the crooked mansion
I went looking for the D.J.'s daughter
Since that day I heard it mentioned
That my name is on the line.
Now, my name is on the line
How could people get so unkind.

Now, my name is on the line
How could people get so unkind.

I come down from the misty mountain
I got lost on the human highway
Take my head refreshing fountain
Take my eyes from what they've seen.
Take my head and change my mind
How could people get so unkind.


7. ALREADY ONE

What can I do, what can I say
Running down this suspicious highway
I can't forget how love let me down
And when we meet it still gets in my way.

But we're already one
Already one
Now only time can come between us
'Cause we're already one
Our little son won't let us forget.

Your laughing eyes, your crazy smile
Every time I look in his face
I can't believe how love lasts a while
And looks like "forever" in the first place.

But we're already one
Already one
Now only time can come between us
'Cause we're already one
Our little son won't let us forget.

In my new life I'm traveling light
Eyes wide open for the next move
I can't go wrong 'til I get right
But I'm not falling back in the same groove.

But we're already one
Already one
Now only time can come between us
'Cause we're already one
Our little son won't let us forget.


8. FIELD OF OPPORTUNITY

I've been wrong before
And I'll be there again
I don't have any answers my friend
Just this pile of old questions
My memory left me here
In the field of opportunity
It's plowing time again.

I'm going' back to my house
But I'm not going now
It's too early to be leaving here, somehow
Let me bore you with this story
How my lover let me down
While I borrow seeds of sadness
From the ground.

In the field of opportunity
It's plowing time again.
There ain't no way of telling
Where these seeds will rise or when
I'll just wait around 'til springtime
And then, I'll find a friend
In the field of opportunity
It's plowing time again.

When I'm all done cultivating
I'll be rocking on the porch
Trying to picture you and where you are
And there'll be no hesitating
When Cupid lights the torch
With those headlights coming down the hill
Between the stars.

In the field of opportunity
It's plowing time again.
There ain't no way of telling
Where these seeds will rise or when
I'll just wait around 'til springtime
And then, I'll find a friend
In the field of opportunity
It's plowing time again.


9. MOTORCYCLE MAMA

Won't you lay your big spike down
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
I always get in trouble
When you bring it round
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay it down

I'm running
I'm running, I'm running
Down the proud highway
Yeah, I'm running
I'm running, I'm running
Down the proud highway
And as long as I keep moving
I won't need a place to stay

Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
I always get in trouble
When you bring that round
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay it down

Well I'm here to deliver
I hope you can read my mail
I just escaped last night
From the memory county jail
I see your box is open
And you flag is up
My message is ready
If there's time enough

Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
I always get in trouble
When you bring it round
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay it down


10. FOUR STRONG WINDS

Four strong winds that blow lonely, Seven seas that run high,
All these things that don't change, Come what may.
But our good times are all gone,
And I'm bound for moving on.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
Think I'll go out to Alberta,
Weather's good there in the fall.

Got some friends that I can go to working for,
Still I wish you'd change your mind
If I asked you one more time,
But we've been through that a hundred times or more.

If I get there before the snow flies,
And if things are going good,
You could meet me if I send you down the fare.
But if you wait until it's winter,
It will be no good
'Cause that wind sure can blow way out there.

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