Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere [1969]
Year Released: 1969
Record Company: Reprise
1. Cinnamon Girl (2:55)
2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (2:26)
3. Round & Round (It Won’t Be Long) (5:53)
4. Down by the River (9:16)
5. The Losing End (When You’re On) (4:07)
6. Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets) (5:36)
7. Cowgirl in the Sand (10:05)
CINNAMON GIRL
I wanna live with a cinnamon girl
I could be happy the rest of my life
With a cinnamon girl…..
Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow
The drummer relaxes and waits between shows
For his Cinnamon girl
My mother sent me money
Now I’m gonna make it somehow
I need another chance
You see your baby loves to dance
Yeah…yeah…yeah…..
I wanna live with a cinnamon girl
I could be happy the rest of my life
With a cinnamon girl…….
EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE
I think I’d like to go back home
And take it easy
There’s a woman that I’d like to get to know
Living there
Everybody seems to wonder what it’s like down here
Gotta get away from this day-to-day running around,
Everybody knows this is nowhere
Everybody everybody knows
Everybody knows this is nowhere
Everytime I think about back home
It’s cool and breezy
Which that I could be there right now
Just passing time
Everybody seems to wonder what it’s like down here
Gotta get away from this day-to-day running around,
Everybody knows this is nowhere
Repeat …
Everybody knows everybody knows …
ROUND & ROUND (It Won’t be Long)
Round and round and round we spin,
To weave a wall to hem us in,
It won’t be long, it won’t be long
How slow and slow and slow it goes,
To mend the tear that always shows.
It won’t be long, it won’t be long.
It’s hard enough losin’ the paper illusion you’ve hidden inside,
Without the confusion of findin’ you’re usin’ the crutch of the lie
To shelter your pride when you cry.
[CHORUS]
Now you’re movin’ too slow and wherever you go there’s another beside.
It’s so hard to say no to yourself and it shows that you’re losing inside,
When you step on your pride and you cry.
[CHORUS]
How the hours will bend through the time that you spend till you turn to your eyes,
And you see your best friend looking over the end and you turn to see why,
And he looks in your eyes and he cries.
DOWN BY THE RIVER
Be on my side, I’ll be on your side, baby
There is no reason for you to hide
It’s so hard for me staying here all alone
When you could be taking me for a ride
Yeah, she could drag me over the rainbow, send me away
Down by the river I shot my baby
Down by the river, dead, oh, shot her dead, oh
You take my hand, I’ll take your hand
Together we may get away
This much madness is too much sorrow
It’s impossible to make it today
Yeah, oh, yeah, she could drag me over the rainbow and send me away
Down by the river I shot my baby
Down by the river, dead, oh, shot her dead, oh
THE LOSING END (When You’re On)
I went into town to see you yesterday but you were not home.
So I talked to some old friends for a while before I wandered off alone.
It’s so hard for me now but I’ll make it somehow,
Though I know I’ll never be the same.
Won’t you ever change your ways,
It’s so hard to make love pay when you’re on the losing end,
And I feel that way again.
Well, I miss you more than ever,
Since you’ve gone I can hardly maintain.
Things are different round here ev’ry night, my tears fall down like rain.
It’s so hard for me now but I’ll make it somehow,
Though I know I’ll never be the same.
Won’t you ever change your ways,
It’s so hard to make love pay when you’re on the losing end,
And I feel that way again.
RUNNING DRY (Requiem for the Rockets)
Oh, please help me, oh please help me, I’m livin’ by myself.
I need someone to comfort me, I need someone to tell.
I’m sorry for the things I’ve done,
I’ve shamed myself with lies,
But soon these things are overcome and can’t be recognized.
I left my home with ribbons on and water in her eyes.
I took from her the love I’d won and turned it to the sky.
I’m sorry for the things I’ve done,
I’ve shamed myself with lies,
My cruelty has punctured me and now I’m running dry.
COWGIRL IN THE SAND
Hello cowgirl in the sand
Is this place at your command
Can I stay here for a while
Can I see your sweet sweet smile
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same?
It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game
Hello ruby in the dust
Has your band begun to rust
After all the sin we’ve had
I was hopin’ that we turn back
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same
It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game
Hello woman of my dreams
This is not the way it seems
Purple words on a grey background
To be a woman and to be turned down
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same
It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game
DOWN BY THE RIVER
Be on my side, I’ll be on your side
There’s no reason for us to hide
It’s so hard for me staying here all alone
When you could be taking me for a ride
She could drag me over the rainbow
And send me away
CHORUS
Down by the river
I shot my baby
Dead
You take my hand, I’ll take your hand
Together we may get away
This much madness is too much sorrow
It’s impossible to make it today
She could drag me over the rainbow
And send me away
CHORUS
Down by the river
I shot my baby
Down by the river
Dead
Be on my side, I’ll be on your side
There’s no reason for us to hide
It’s so hard for me staying here all alone
When you could be taking me for a ride.
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Credits
Art Direction – Ed Thrasher
Bass – Billy Talbot
Drums – Ralph Molina
Engineer – David Briggs
Guitar – Danny Whitten, Neil Young
Photography By [Cover] – Frank Bez
Producer – David Briggs, Neil Young
Written-By – Neil Young
Recorded at Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood, Jan. & Mar. 1969
Produced by David Briggs & Neil Young