How did those windows get behind the stars? Sometimes as a reflection on an airplane window. There may not be logic involved, but there is something deeper than that. I can see them clearly reflected on the surface of being turned down. Turned down like a bed, like a stereo, like a deal.
A woman turned down. If I could, the song might not be as powerful as it is. Shelter me from the powder and the finger Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger. Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger. Not cover me with earth. Not cover me with death. I love to listen to this song because it takes me back to my roots and to memories of growing up in northern Canada.
I think he was feeling the pain and "helplessness" when his parents split up which changed his family dynamic so profoundly he wrote this timeless piece of art.
It means exactly what ever you interpret it in your own mind. For some it is loss and for some it is hope. Art is looked at and affects each person differently, for me it's about not being able to return to that most beautiful place in your life, perhaps thru death or by losing someone who truly loved being up North and knowing that is where they were truly happy, but even in death there is hope and faith, that they are waiting there for us.
Northern Michigan is that place for me and haven't had the experience to go as far as Northern Ontario. NEIL YOUNG turned a helpless feeling to hope in this enjoyable song to listen to about a town in North Ontario, possibly Thunderbay or OMEMME, where Neil endured the changes and had many childhood dreams that he mostly loved there I believe with wonder and amazement that became a little overwhelming and overshadowed by the experiences of ''one lost love''there to leave behind, locked up in his mind like a heavenly place.
That he is yearning to unlock one day, but it's unreachable now that leaves them helpless. Helpless also in his condition on the road to pursue his earthly dream looking up to the otherside of the blue blue sky that is over the rainbow to go into some kind of a new dimension ''symbolically speaking'' to reach stardom or the stars that are on the otherside. It's about drugs and the more more you use makes you helpless in your mind you still need a place to go but your trapped gazing at what life could have been.
I played this song at my friend's funeral. He died of Colon cancer after two years of a hard and painful battle. We teased it during an instrumental which we played on guitar as people took communion. I found the sentiment captured the feeling most had throughout the ordeal - Being utterly helpless. This is one of the greatest songs ever written.
The fact that no one has previously bothered to comment on it,while dozens of people make earnest comments about the cliche ridden drivel of coldplay's Viva the Vida, makes me wonder. Unlike that songs global grandiosity and historical mishmash, this is a beautiful, subtle and mystical song about home and longing and being blocked and trapped in life's mystery. Login Register Login with Facebook. All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners. All lyrics provided for educational purposes only.
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