Hippie Dream [4:26] lyrics

Take my advice
Don't listen to me
It ain't paradise
But it used to be
There was a time
When the river was wide
And the water came running down
To the rising tide
But the wooden ships
Were just a hippie dream
Just a hippie dream.

Don't bat an eye
Don't waste a word
Don't mention nothin'
That could go unheard
'Cause the tie-dye sails
Are the screamin' sheets
And the dusty trail
Leads to blood in the streets
And the wooden ships
Are a hippie dream
Capsized in excess
If you know what I mean.

Just because it's over for you
Don't mean it's over for me
It's a victory for the heart
Every time the music starts
So please don't kill the machine
Don't kill the machine
Don't kill the machine.

Another flower child goes to seed
In an ether-filled room of meat-hooks
It's so ugly
So ugly.

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Lucky Thirteen lyrics

Album release date:

1993.01.05

Album producers:

David Briggs, Elliot Mazer, Neil Young, Tim Mullig

Album guest musicians:

Crazy Horse on "Sample And Hold", "Around The World" and "Mideast Vacation"Ralph Molina (drums), Frank Sampedro (guitar, keyboards), Billy Talbot (bass) The Harvesters and the Redwood Boys on "Depression Blues":Karl Himmel (drums), Tim Drummond (bass), Ben Keith (pedal steel guitar), Rufus Thibodeaux (fiddle), Spooner Oldham (organ), Larry Byrom, Anthony Crawford, Rick Palombi (background vocals) The Shocking Pinks on "Get Gone", "Don't Take Your Love Away From Me": Karl Himmel (drums), Tim Drummond (bass), Ben Keith (guitar, saxophone), Larry Byrom (piano and vocals), Anthony Crawford (vocals, maracas), Rick Palombi (vocals, tambourine), Craig Hayes as "Vito Toledo" (baritone saxophone) On "Once An Angel" and "Where Is The Highway Tonight?":Waylon Jennings (vocal on "Where Is The Highway Tonight?"), Rufus Thibodeaux (fiddle), Gordon Terry (fiddle), Karl Himmel (drums), Joe Allen (bass), Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano), Ralph Mooney (pedal steel guitar), David Kirby (acoustic guitar), background vocals on "Once An Angel":Doana Cooper, Gail Davies, Betsy Hammer, Pam Rose, Janis Oliver-Gill, Mary Ann Kennedy, Kristine Oliver-Arnold, Leona Williams On "Hippie Dream" and "Pressure":Steve Jordan (drums, vocals on "Pressure"), Danny Kortchmar (synthesizer, guitar on "Hippie Dream", vocals on "Pressure") On "Ain't it the Truth" and "This Note's For You": The Bluenotes: Chad Cromwell (drums), Rick (the bass player) Rosas (bass), Frank (Pancho) Sampedro (keyboards, vocals on "Ain't It The Truth"), Steve Lawrence (lead tenor saxophone), Ben Keith (alto saxophone), Larry Cragg (baritone saxophone), Claude Cailliet (trombone), John Fumo (trumpet), Tom Bray (trumpet)

Album description:

Time 64:04 Neil Young on guitar, keyboards, synclavier, harmonica, bass and vocals

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