The Rent Is Always Due

Album: Neil Young Archives Vol. 1: 1963–1972 (2009)
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  • Your silver child
    Suspended in space
    Crying out to you
    Beckons you to yet another fine place
    Where the trials of life are few
    Who says you are coming on
    Don't think you're livin' wrong
    They won't remember you
    The rent is always due

    The cloudy men
    Who take their place
    And stand in line
    They do
    Know not of
    The satin face
    That separates them from you
    Just put your blue jeans on
    Grab your guitar and write a song
    Don't think I'm kidding you
    The rent is always due

    She rides a broom
    With gold-plated straw
    And flutters around
    And dies
    The brylcream fools
    Just standing on
    Digesting all her lies
    But then you walk along
    And she starts coming on
    Beneath her melting broom
    The rent is always due Writer/s: Neil Young
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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