Neil Young – Eldorado [1989]

Year Released: 1989
Record Company: Reprise Records

1. Cocaine Eyes (4:24)
2. Don’t Cry (5:00)
3. Heavy Love (5:09)
4. On Broadway (4:57)
5. Eldorado (6:03)

COCAINE EYES

Ain’t a day goes by,
I don’t burn a little bit of my soul
Ain’t a day goes by,
I don’t burn a little bit of my soul
Scored some friends along the way
Did what I did, said what I had to say
And I’d do it all again if I had to today
When all is said and done
I’m the one.

It’s a long hard road
when your friends start
to leave you behind
It’s a long hard road
when you try to find peace of mind
Some might go for poison
And some go for too much stuff
Some just go to sleep at night
And forget to wake up.

Cocaine eyes
Can’t hide your face
It’s no surprise
You lose the race
Again.

I’m the one, yeah.

Cocaine eyes
It won’t hide your face
It’s no surprise
You lost the race
Once again
My old friend.

DON’T CRY

Don’t cry my sweet girl
Nothin’ I say is written in stone
Don’t cry my sweet love
You won’t really be alone.

I’ll help you pack your things
I’ll walk with you out to the car
I’ll hold on to the ring
I won’t forget the way things are.

My sweet love.

Your disappointed eyes
Are haunting me like my big lies
I see you glaring now
I see you staring in the fire.

My sweet love.

Don’t cry my sweet girl
Nothin’ I say is written in stone
Don’t cry my sweet love
You won’t really be alone.

My sweet love, my sweet love.

Don’t cry my sweet girl
You won’t really be alone
Don’t cry my sweet girl
You won’t really be alone
Don’t cry my sweet girl
You won’t really be alone.

HEAVY LOVE

I may not mystify you
In your search for higher love
I may just slip right by you
With your eyes turned up above.

We may not compromise
I may not suit your taste tonight
My love
But as the time goes by
You might think that I’m all right
My love, my heavy love.

A noise, your phone is ringing
Or is that someone at your door
Inside your head I’m singing
Inside your heart I cry for more.

You may not hear me calling
You may not feel me bawling out
My love
But heavy rocks are falling
Heavy love is coming down
My love, my heavy love.

A noise, your phone is ringing
Or is that someone at your door
Inside your head I’m singing
Inside your heart I dig for more.

We may not compromise
I may not suit your taste tonight
My sweet love
But as the time goes by
You might think that I’m all right
My love, my heavy love.

My heavy love.

ELDORADO

In the crystal ball
The gypsy sees the villa
The riders on the hill
The fire in the fields
She sees the mission bell
Swinging in the silence
Now the shooting starts
The bullets pierce the hearts
The seqoritas crying at the well.

Up in the Gold Hotel
The money hits the table
The heavies all are there
That’s why the deal’s goin’ down
Beautiful women all dressed in
Diamonds and sable
Down upon the street
Beside a garbage heap
A Mariachi band begins to play.

Somewhere a blues guitar
Plays echoes in the alleyway
The Tijuana dawn
Claims another day
The golden sun
Rises on the runway
The pilot understands
The money changes hands
Inside the jet
the briefcase snaps. Goodbye.

In Eldorado town
There lives a great bullfighter
His eyes are screaming blue
His hair is red as blood
And when the gate goes up
The crowd gets so excited
And he comes dancin’ out
Dressed in gold lami
He kills the bull
and lives another day.

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Neil Young: guitar, vocal
Chad Cromwell: drums
Rick “The Bass Player” Rosas: bass

Recorded at The Hit Factory, New York City, Dec. 13-15, 1988
Produced by “The Volume Dealers” (Neil Young & Niko Bolas)

Reprise 20P2-2651 (CD-EP, Japan only)
Reprise 25919-1 (12″ EP, Australia only)

Neil Young – Eldorado [1989]

1. Cocaine Eyes (4:24) 2. Don’t Cry (5:00) 3. Heavy Love (5:09) 4. On Broadway (4:57) 5. Eldorado (6:03)

1. Cocaine Eyes (4:24)
2. Don’t Cry (5:00)
3. Heavy Love (5:09)
4. On Broadway (4:57)
5. Eldorado (6:03)