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This one’s good - leaving CSN&Y…
What is that song about? I listened to like three notes and wanted to slit my wrists so I turned it off.
That’s some depressing guitar and harmonica. F.
Dead celebrities. Elvis and Johnny Rotten are mentioned, but he means Sid. This was the song mentioned in Kurt Cobain’s suicide note. Neil was going to retire the song after Kurt’s death, but everyone told him not to, to serve as an anti suicide song.
Happy Spanks Giving! Better to give than receive.
It’s better to burn out than fade away
Quoted by the Kurgan in Highlander and Def Leopard on one of their songs.
Kurt thought Neil meant die on your own terms at the height of celebrity rather than fade into obscurity and become a has been
The song’s really about suicide? I wasn’t joking. I skipped right to the middle of the song somewhere because I wanted to see if I knew it, and I really couldn’t take more than 3 seconds. It was a part where the harmonica kicked in and I could instantly tell they were death notes. Freaky.
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You know artists, all emotional and dramatic. Neil felt that way in 1978, released the song in 1980. There’s pages of lore.