A message from Neil Young-

Sunrise
As the sun rises today I wonder. How hard should I try? As I spread awareness of Climate change and make that my priority, am I losing sight of day to day life? Is this more important than making music?
Why should it matter so much to me?
I know what I feel. I am always seeing ways I could improve my own behavior towards preserving Planet Earth. Today I took a ride in a cool old car but I was thinking about the pollution I was causing, not care free like I once was. Then I looked ahead and saw all the other cars. They were mostly brand new but still just like mine. They ran the same way and burned the same dirty fuel as my fifty-five year old car.
Why should I blame myself?
Anyway, there is no other fuel available at gas stations. Big Oil still has the monopoly there.
No Freedom of Choice on that decision exists anywhere near here in corporate run America. That's odd, I thought to myself. Wasn't the president elected on promises of a cleaner renewable energy future?
Isn't Freedom of Choice part of Liberty?
Then I thought about my family. My daughter was just married and I may be a grandfather some day. What about those kids? What will I be doing to make sure they have a better world? The sun rose over the horizon then, blinding me when I looked at it.
How hard should I try?
Neil Young
West Coast of California
9/27/13 


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 http://nutopia2sergiofalcone.blogspot.it/2013/09/a-message-from-neil-young.html


  

Patti Smith canta Neil Young: After the gold rush, testo, traduzione mia, mio commento.

 After the gold rush

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights
In armor coming,
Saying something about a queen.
There were peasants singing and
Drummers drumming
And the archer split the tree.
There was a fanfare blowing
To the sun
That was floating on the breeze.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.

I was lying in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes.
I was hoping for replacement
When the sun burst thru the sky.
There was a band playing in my head
And I felt like getting high.
I was thinking about what a
Friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie.
Thinking about what a
Friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie.

Well, I dreamed I saw the silver
Space ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun,
There were children crying
And colors flying
All around the chosen ones.
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun.
They were flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home.

Look at Mother Nature on the run
in the twentyfirst century,
Look at Mother Nature on the run
in the twentyfirst century.

(Neil Young - ultimi quattro versi aggiunti da Patti Smith)


Dopo l'assalto d'oro


Beh, sognai di vedere i cavalieri
che arrivavano con la loro corazza,
dicevano qualcosa a proposito di una regina.

C'erano contadini che cantavano
e tamburini rullavano il tamburo
e l'arciere fendette l'albero.

C'era una fanfara che zefirava
al sole
che ondeggiava nella brezza.

Guarda, Madre Natura sta scappando
nei millenovecentosettanta
Guarda nostra Madre Natura che scappa
nei millenovecentosettanta.

Stavo steso in un seminterrato in cenere
con la luna piena nei miei occhi.
Speravo in una sostituzione
quando il sole esplose squarciando il cielo.
C'era una banda che suonava nella mia testa
e mi sentii come se fossi tirato verso l'alto.
Stavo pensando a quello che un
Amico aveva detto
speravo che fosse una menzogna.

Beh, sognai le
navi spaziali d'argento volare
nella coltre gialla del sole,
c'erano bambini che piangevano
e colori che volavano
tutt'attorno agli eletti.

Tutto in un sogno, tutto in un sogno
avevano cominciato a caricare.

Stavano trasportando in volo il seme d'Argento
di Madre Natura verso una nuova casa nel sole.

Guarda, Madre Natura sta scappando
nel secolo ventesimoprimo
Guarda nostra Madre Natura che scappa
nel secolo ventesimoprimo.

(traduzione mia)


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSa0QTbtYc4