Days That Used To Be

I don't know why, but Neil Young alway reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson. Maybe it was their sometimes herky-jerky mannerisms. Maybe that Young lives, as Thompson did, in another time and space... maybe cause they'd just as soon spit on your shoe than to pretend to be someone they are not. I dont know. But Thompson's demise has me thinking a lot about ole Neil Young.



"Days That Used To Be"

People say don't rock the boat,
let things go their own way
Ideas that once seem so right,
now have gotten hard to say
I wish I could talk to you,
you could talk to me'
Cause there's very few of us left my friend
From the days that used to be.

Seem like such a simple thing
to follow one's own dream
But possessions and concession
are not often what they seem
They drag you down and load you down
in disguise of security.
But we never hadto make those deals
In the days that used to be.

Talk to me, my long lost friend,
tell me how you are
Are you happy with your circumstance,
are you driving a new car
Does it get you where you wanna go,
with a seven year warranty
Or just anotherhundred thousand miles away
From days that used to be.