Florida

Album: Homegrown (2020)
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  • Let's go to Florida
    Palm trees and shit man
    Palm trees, here we go

    It was like a town in Florida in the fifties you know
    I don't know, there's a lot of white buildings
    They were really white
    I could see them
    They were about seven or eight stories tall
    All the people were walking around
    And it just looks so good, you know
    They all had, uh, blue dresses and nice pants on
    You know they're all of them are drinking pop
    From you know with straws in the bottles
    Things were lookin' you know, sun was shining so bright
    The downtown looked incredible, I couldn't believe it
    There was gliders flyin' around in the sky
    These guys flying around in gliders, you know
    And they'd swoop between the buildings and they
    They'd go down the alley ways, you know
    And they make a sharp left and a sharp right
    And uh, it's like they, I couldn't believe
    That it was really happening you know

    So I said, you know, "I don't believe this, this isn't real"
    And just as I said that, this guy in the glider
    Was coming right through the center of town
    And he ran into the building in the middle of town
    Fifteen story high building, right in the center of town
    He started tumbling through the air, you know
    And his glider crashed in the alley and, uh
    I noticed this couple on the, uh, on the parking lot
    And, uh, they, they were just walking together
    In conversation you know like nothing
    Else was happening and, uh, looking up
    They noticed a tumbling man coming through the air
    And uh, he, he came right down and landed
    Right on them and made and awful sound and, uh
    I ran over there, I could see that they
    Were really gone, you know
    But on the ground beside them
    Was this little baby, dressed in
    It just had a red blanket
    Wrapped around it, so I picked it up and took it
    To my car over on the corner which wasn't too far away
    And I put it in the back seat
    I don't know whether it was
    A boy or a girl, I didn't look, I just put it down
    It was sleeping and I looked and a crowd had gathered
    On the parking lot, this beautiful lady was coming
    Down the street and I looked at her
    And she looked right at me and she said
    "That's my baby in the back of your car there"
    I said "Oh no, that baby belongs to that, to that
    Dead couple on the parking lot"
    And she said "No, no you're wrong, you're wrong
    What happened to them?" Writer/s: Neil Young
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • AnonymousIt's abject, utter rubbish and lets the whole album down.
  • Bill from UsNitzsche also used the "glass harp" in the movie "Cutters Way". Probably more, catchiest sound since the Theremin!
    I live in Florida and seem to recall something about a glider, maybe a hang-glider crashing into a Condo back then, I'm going to research it.
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