Expecting To Fly

Album: Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)
Charted: 98
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  • There you stood on the edge of your feather
    Expecting to fly
    While I laughed I wondered whether
    I could wave goodbye
    Knowin' that you'd gone
    By the summer it was healing
    We had said goodbye
    All the years we'd spent with feeling
    Ended with a cry
    Babe, ended with a cry
    Babe, ended with a cry

    I tried so hard to stand
    As I stumbled and fell to the ground
    So hard to laugh as I fumbled
    And reached for the love I found
    Knowin' it was gone
    If I ever lived without you
    Now you know I'd die
    If I ever said I loved you
    Now you know I'd try
    Babe, now you know I'd try
    Babe, now you know I'd try
    Babe Writer/s: Neil Young
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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  • Jack C. from OregonI don't think this semi-solo track is surpassed by any of Neil Young's future songs, good as they are. The part where he sings "I tried so hard to stand..." is supremely atmospheric.
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