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Live Rust
by Neil Young
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Overall Rating:
3.1257
Avg. Critic Score:
3.3500
Live Rust Lyrics
Lyrics
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Title
- Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
- With the barkers and the colored balloons,
- You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
- Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,
- You're leaving there too soon.
- It's so noisy at the fair
- But all your friends are there
- And the candy floss you had
- And your mother and your dad.
- Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
- With the barkers and the colored balloons,
- You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
- Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,
- You're leaving there too soon.
- There's a girl just down the aisle,
- Oh, to turn and see her smile.
- You can hear the words she wrote
- As you read the hidden note.
- Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
- With the barkers and the colored balloons,
- You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
- Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,
- You're leaving there too soon.
- Now you're underneath the stairs
- And you're givin' back some glares
- To the people who you met
- And it's your first cigarette.
- Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
- With the barkers and the colored balloons,
- You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
- Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,
- You're leaving there too soon.
- Now you say you're leavin' home
- 'Cause you want to be alone.
- Ain't it funny how you feel
- When you're findin' out it's real?
- Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
- With the barkers and the colored balloons,
- You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
- Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,
- You're leaving there too soon.
- Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
- with the barkers and the colored balloons,
- You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
- Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,
- You're leaving there too soon.
- I am a child, I'll last a while.
- You can't conceive of the pleasure in my smile.
- You hold my hand, rough up my hair,
- It's lots of fun to have you there.
- God gave to you, now, you give to me,
- I'd like to know what you learned.
- The sky is blue and so is the sea.
- What is the color, when black is burned?
- What is the color?
- You are a man, you understand.
- You pick me up and you lay me down again.
- You make the rules, you say what's fair,
- It's lots of fun to have you there.
- God gave to you, now, you give to me,
- I'd like to know what you learned.
- The sky is blue and so is the sea.
- What is the color, when black is burned?
- What is the color?
- I am a child, I'll last a while.
- You can't conceive of the pleasure in my smile.
- Comes a time when you're driftin'
- Comes a time when you settle down
- Comes a light feelin's liftin'
- Lift that baby right up off the ground.
- Oh, this old world keeps spinning round
- It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' 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 layin' down
- There comes a time.
- My my, hey hey
- Rock and roll is here to stay
- It's better to burn out
- Than to fade away
- My my, hey hey.
- Out of the blue and into the black
- They give you this, but you pay for that
- And once you're gone, you can never come back
- When you're out of the blue and into the black.
- The king is gone but he's not forgotten
- This is the story of a Johnny Rotten
- It's better to burn out than it is to rust
- The king is gone but he's not forgotten.
- Hey hey, my my
- Rock and roll can never die
- There's more to the picture
- Than meets the eye.
- Hey hey, my my.
- When you dance,
- Do your senses tingle?
- Then take a chance?
- In a trance,
- While the lonely mingle
- With circumstance?
- I've got something to tell you, you make it show.
- Let me come over, I know you know
- When you dance I can really love.
- I can love, I can really love, I can really love
- I can love, I can really love, I can really love
- Like a mountain that's growing a river that rolls
- Let me come over, I know you know
- When you dance I can really love.
- When you dance,
- Do your senses tingle?
- Then take a chance?
- In a trance,
- While the lonely mingle
- With circumstance?
- I've got something to tell you, you make it show.
- Let me come over, I know you know
- When you dance I can really love.
- He's a perfect stranger,
- Like a cross of himself and a fox.
- He's a feeling arranger
- And a changer of the ways he talks.
- He's the unforeseen danger
- The keeper of the key to the locks.
- Know when you see him,
- Nothing can free him.
- Step aside, open wide,
- It's the loner.
- If you see him in the subway,
- He'll be down at the end of the car.
- Watching you move
- Until he knows he knows who you are.
- When you get off at your station alone,
- He'll know that you are.
- Know when you see him,
- Nothing can free him.
- Step aside, open wide,
- It's the loner.
- There was a woman he knew
- About a year or so ago.
- She had something that he needed
- And he pleaded with her not to go.
- On the day that she left,
- He died, but it did not show.
- Know when you see him,
- Nothing can free him.
- Step aside, open wide,
- It's the loner.
- I caught you knockin' at my cellar door
- I love you, baby, can I have some more
- Ooh, ooh, the damage done.
- I hit the city and I lost my band
- I watched the needle take another man
- Gone, gone, the damage done.
- I sing the song because I love the man
- I know that some of you don't understand
- Milk-blood to keep from running out.
- I've seen the needle and the damage done
- A little part of it in everyone
- But every junkie's like a settin' sun.
- 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 waitin'
- I hope you show up soon,
- 'Cause my heart needs relatin'
- 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
- Last night I was cool at the pool hall
- Held the table for eleven games
- Nothing was easier than the first seven
- I beat a woman with varicose veins.
- She stopped to see herself in the mirror
- Fix her hair and hide heir veins
- And she lost the game.
- Next day I went to the dentist
- He pulled some teeth and I lost some blood
- We'd like to thank you for the cards you sent us
- My wives and I were all choked up.
- I recall how Caesar and Cleo
- Made love in the Milky Way
- They needed boats and armies to get there
- I know there's a better way.
- I saw the movie and I read the book
- But when it happened to me
- I sure was glad I had what it took
- To get away.
- Gotta get away, gotta get away
- Gotta get away, gotta get away
- I'm making another delivery
- Of chemicals and sacred roots
- I'll hold what you have to give me
- But I'll use what I have to use.
- The lasers are in the lab
- The old man is dressed in white clothes
- Everybody says he's mad
- No one knows the things that he knows.
- No one knows, no one knows
- No one knows, no one knows
- I'm sleepin' in every hallway
- I just can't accept the stares
- I'm using too many covers
- I'm warm now so I don't care.
- I'm thinkin' of no one in my mind
- Sedan delivery is a job I know I'll keep
- It sure was hard to find.
- Hard to find. hard to find
- Hard to find. hard to find
- Look out, Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river
- With a big red beacon, and a flag, and a man on the rail
- I think you'd better call John,
- 'Cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail
- And it's less than a mile away
- I hope they didn't come to stay
- It's got numbers on the side and a gun
- And it's makin' big waves.
- Daddy's gone, my brother's out hunting in the mountains
- Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy-Lou
- So the Powers That Be left me here to do the thinkin'
- And I just turned twenty-two
- I was wonderin' what to do
- And the closer they got,
- The more those feelings grew.
- Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassurin'
- He told me, Red means run, son, numbers add up to nothin'
- But when the first shot hit the docks I saw it comin'
- Raised my rifle to my eye
- Never stopped to wonder why.
- Then I saw black,
- And my face splashed in the sky.
- Shelter me from the powder and the finger
- Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger
- Think of me as one you'd never figured
- Would fade away so young
- With so much left undone
- Remember me to my love,
- I know I'll miss her.
- He came dancing across the water
- With his galleons and guns
- Looking for the new world
- In that palace in the sun.
- On the shore lay Montezuma
- With his coca leaves and pearls
- In his halls he often wondered
- With the secrets of the worlds.
- And his subjects gathered 'round him
- Like the leaves around a tree
- In their clothes of many colors
- For the angry gods to see.
- And the women all were beautiful
- And the men stood straight and strong
- They offered life in sacrifice
- So that others could go on.
- Hate was just a legend
- And war was never known
- The people worked together
- And they lifted many stones.
- They carried them to the flatlands
- And they died along the way
- But they built up with their bare hands
- What we still can't do today.
- And I know she's living there
- And she loves me to this day
- I still can't remember when
- Or how I lost my way.
- He came dancing across the water
- Cortez, Cortez
- What a killer.
- I wanna live with a cinnamon girl
- I could be happy the rest of my life
- With a cinnamon girl.
- A dreamer of pictures I run in the night
- You see us together, chasing the moonlight,
- My cinnamon girl.
- Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow
- The drummer relaxes and waits between shows
- For his cinnamon girl.
- A dreamer of pictures I run in the night
- You see us together, chasing the moonlight,
- My cinnamon girl.
- Pa sent me money now
- I'm gonna make it somehow
- I need another chance
- You see your baby loves to dance
- Yeah...yeah...yeah.
- Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar,
- Dancing on the light from star to star.
- Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are,
- I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire.
- You are like a hurricane
- There's calm in your eye.
- And I'm gettin' blown away
- To somewhere safer where the feeling stays.
- I want to love you but I'm getting blown away.
- I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream,
- You could have been anyone to me.
- Before that moment you touched my lips
- That perfect feeling when time just slips
- Away between us on our foggy trip.
- You are like a hurricane
- There's calm in your eye.
- And I'm gettin' blown away
- To somewhere safer where the feeling stays.
- I want to love you but I'm getting blown away.
- You are just a dreamer, and I am just a dream.
- You could have been anyone to me.
- Before that moment you touched my lips
- That perfect feeling when time just slips
- Away between us on our foggy trip.
- You are like a hurricane
- There's calm in your eye.
- And I'm gettin' blown away
- To somewhere safer where the feeling stays.
- I want to love you but I'm getting blown away.
- Hey hey, my my
- Rock and roll can never die
- There's more to the picture
- Than meets the eye.
- Hey hey, my my.
- Out of the blue and into the black
- You pay for this, but they give you that
- And once you're gone, you can't come back
- When you're out of the blue and into the black.
- The king is gone but he's not forgotten
- Is this the story of Johnny Rotten?
- It's better to burn out 'cause rust never sleeps
- The king is gone but he's not forgotten.
- Hey hey, my my
- Rock and roll can never die
- There's more to the picture
- Than meets the eye.
- Tonight's the night, tonight's the night
- Tonight's the night, tonight's the night
- Tonight's the night, tonight's the night
- Tonight's the night, tonight's the night.
- Bruce Berry was a working man
- He used to load that Econoline van.
- A sparkle was in his eye
- But his life was in his hands.
- Well, late at night when the people were gone
- He used to pick up my guitar
- And sing a song in a shaky voice
- That was real as the day was long.
- Tonight's the night, yes it is, tonight's the night
- Tonight's the night, yes it is, tonight's the night.
- Early in the mornin' at the break of day
- He used to sleep until the afternoon.
- If you never heard him sing
- I guess you won't too soon.
- 'Cause people let me tell you
- It sent a chill up and down my spine
- When I picked up the telephone
- And heard that he'd died out on the mainline.
- Tonight's the night, tonight's the night
- Tonight's the night, tonight's the night.
- Bruce Berry was a working man
- He used to load that Econoline van.
- Well, early in the morning at just about the break of day
- He used to sleep until the afternoon.
- Tonight's the night, yes it is, tonight's the night
- Tonight's the night, tonight's the night
- Tonight's the night, tonight's the night
- Tonight's the night, tonight's the night.
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