My interpretation was his using the metaphor of paying off a debt (literally or figuratively), in relation to personal responsibility? Like, should it be hard to be a "better" person to your fellow man, when you reach a certain age where you know you could/should be able to, but your the selfishness that you have recently grown out of still wins out once in a while. It seems to come so close to making sense, but then it loses me. Then I read in "Shakey" a couple of years back, that Neil Young doesn't really like this song of his anymore, strictly because he doesn't think this chorus makes sense either. "Is it hard to make arrangements with yourself, when your old enough to repay, but young enough to sell". All rights reserved.I've always loved the song "Tell Me Why", except it frustrates me that I can't grasp this one chorus, which stops me from being able to fully appreciate the song/try to relate it to my own life: I’d be crazy to stop.”Ĭopyright © 2022, ABC Audio. “That’s why there’s 51, 52 albums because I want to do this and I can still feel it. I don’t have to go on a tour if I don’t want to go on a tour.”īut even with the sale, Neil insists he doesn’t want to hear his music “associated with a product or with a movement or with a politician or with a sport or with anything,” adding, “I like the songs to be the songs.”Īnd fans shouldn’t think the sale means Neil’s about to stop making music. Neil adds, “That’s the way I feel about it. I’ve got the end of my life to go out doing exactly what it is I want to do and not doing what I don’t want to do.” “I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to do. “I wanted to sell my songs because I don’t have to worry about a f****** thing now,” he tells Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. (Note Language) Neil Young is one of the many artists who in recent years have sold the publishing rights to their catalog, and for him, doing so was a no brainer.
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