I dunno, it makes at least as much sense as the Neil Young line. They've given up living 'cos they just don't careĪfraid of yourself so you run away and hideīut why don't you join the crowd and come inside Look at all the loonies and the sad eyed failures Look at all the losers and the mad eyed gazers
You wander round this town like you've lost your way You're a misfit, afraid of yourself so you run away and hide You're lost without a crowd yet you go your own way
You say your image is new, but it looks well tested You set out to outrage but you can't get arrested The problem comes when the lyrics ask whether it's hard to come to grips with a debt you owe, when you've gotten old enough to afford to repay them, but your still young enough to."sell"? How exactly do you "sell" a debt.? Maybe there's an actual technical way that people who know a lot about finance can explain, but how the hell could Neil have cared to know such a thing when he was, what.25?Ĭlick to expand.You've been sleeping in a field but you look real rested I think that was what he was trying to accomplish in metaphor, but he kinda screws it up. My interpretation was his using the metaphor of paying off a debt (literally or figuratively), in relation to personal responsibility? Like, should it be hard to be a "better" person to your fellow man, when you reach a certain age where you know you could/should be able to, but your the selfishness that you have recently grown out of still wins out once in a while. It seems to come so close to making sense, but then it loses me. Then I read in "Shakey" a couple of years back, that Neil Young doesn't really like this song of his anymore, strictly because he doesn't think this chorus makes sense either. "Is it hard to make arrangements with yourself, when your old enough to repay, but young enough to sell". I've always loved the song "Tell Me Why", except it frustrates me that I can't grasp this one chorus, which stops me from being able to fully appreciate the song/try to relate it to my own life:
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