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Neil Young
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Miscellaneous
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Sixty To Zero
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All the champs and the heroes
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They got a price to pay
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They go from sixty to zero
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In the split of a hair
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They see the face in the window
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They feel a shadow out there
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They've got the places they can go
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They've got the people who stare
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They've got to walk in their shoes
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They've got to see what they see
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They've got the people around them
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Getting too much for free
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All the pimps and the dealers
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All the food they can eat
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All the screamers and squealers
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When they walk down the street
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Yeah.
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He's just a rich old man
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He never cared for anyone
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He likes to count his possessions
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He's been a miser from penny one
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He never cared for his children
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Never cared for his wife
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Never made anyone happy
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That's the way he lived his life
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And one day in the sunshine
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He got a bolt from the blue
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Unloaded all of his possessions
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Sold his investments too
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And now he lives with the homeless
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Owns 900 hospital beds
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He prefers to remain nameless
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It's publicity he dreads
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Yeah.
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There's a judge in the city
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He goes to work every day
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Spends his life in the courthouse
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Keeps his perspective that way
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But I respect his decision
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He's got a lot on his mind
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He's pretty good with the gavel
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A little heavy on the fines
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One day there was this minstrel
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Who came to court on a charge
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That he blew someone's head off
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Because his amp was too large
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And the song he was singin'
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Was not for love but for cash
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Well, the judge weighed the charges
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He fingered his mustache
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Yeah.
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Well, there's a clown in a carnival
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He rode a painted horse
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He came from somewhere out west
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He was very funny of course
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But that is not what I noticed
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It was the incredible force
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With which he held his audience
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While he rode on his horse
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His jokes were not that off-color
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His smile was not that sincere
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His show was not that sensational
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Reasons for success were not clear
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But he still made big money
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One day the circus was his
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Now he's married to the acrobat
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And they're training their kids
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Yeah.
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Now the jailhouse was empty
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All the criminals were gone
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The gate was left wide open
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And a buck and fawn
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Were eating grass in the courtyard
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When the warden walked in
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And took a rifle
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from the prison guard
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And said to him with a grin
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To shoot those deer
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would be stupid, sir
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We already got 'em right here
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Why not just
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lock the gates and keep them
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With intimidation and fear?
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But the warden pulled the trigger
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And those deer hit the ground
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He said Nobody'll
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know the difference
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And they both looked around.
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Yeah.
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Well, the cop made the showdown
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He was sure he was right
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He had all of the lowdown
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From the bank heist last night
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His best friend was a robber
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And his wife was a thief
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All the children were murderers
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They couldn't get no relief
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The bungalow was surrounded
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When a voice loud and clear
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Come out with your hands up
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Or we're gonna blow you out of here
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There was a face in the window
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TV cameras rolled
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And they cut to the announcer
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And the story was told.
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Yeah.
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Well, the artist
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looked at the producer
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The producer sat back
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He said What we have got here
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Is a pretty good track
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But we don't have a vocal
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And we still don't have a song
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If we could
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get this thing accomplished
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Nothin' else could go wrong
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So he balanced the ashtray
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And he picked up the phone
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And said Send me a songwriter
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Who's drifted far from home
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And make sure that he's hungry
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And make sure he's alone
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And send me a cheeseburger
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And a new Rolling Stone
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Yeah.
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Well, the Sioux in Dakota
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They lost all of their land
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And now a basketball player
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Is trying to lend them a hand
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Maybe someday he'll be president
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He's quite a popular man
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But now the chief has reservations
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And the white man has plans
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There's opposition in Congress
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The bill is up against cash
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There's really no way of predicting
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If it will fly or it will crash
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But that's the nature of politics
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That's the name of the game
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That's how it looks in the tepee
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Big winds are blowing again
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Yeah.
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There's still crime in the city
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Said the cop on the beat
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I don't know if I can stop it
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I feel like meat on the street
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They paint my car like a target
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I take my orders from fools
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Meanwhile
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some kid blows my head off
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Well, I play by their rules
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So now I'm doing it my way
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I took the law in my own hands
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Here I am in the alleyway
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A wad of cash in my pants
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I get paid by a ten year old
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He says he looks up to me
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There's still crime in the city
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But it's good to be free
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Yeah.
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Now I come from a family
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That has a broken home
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Sometimes I talk to my daddy
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On the telephone
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When he says that he loves me
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I know that he does
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But I wish I could see him
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Wish I knew where he was
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But that's
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the way all my friends are
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Except maybe one or two
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Wish I could see him this weekend
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Wish I could walk in his shoes
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But now I'm doin' my own thing
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Sometimes I'm good, then I'm bad
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Although my home has been broken
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It's the best home I ever had
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Yeah.
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Well, I keep getting younger
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My life's been funny that way
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Before I ever learned to talk
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I forgot what to say
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I sassed back to my mummy
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I sassed back to my teacher
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I got thrown out of Sunday School
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For throwin' bibles at the preacher
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Then I grew up to be a fireman
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I put out every fire in town
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Put out everything smoking
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But when I put the hose down
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The judge sent me to prison
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Gave me life without parole
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Wish I never put the hose down
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Wish I never got old.
Neil Young - Crime in the City (Sixty to...
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