Thrasher
Neil Young
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They were hiding behind hay bales,
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They were planting in the full moon
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They had given all they had for something new
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But the light of day was on them,
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They could see the thrashers coming
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And the water shone like diamonds
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In the dew.
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And I was just getting up,
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Hit the road before it's light
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Trying to catch an hour on the sun
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When I saw those thrashers rolling by,
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Looking more than two lanes wide
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I was feelin' like my day had just begun.
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Where the eagle glides descending
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There's an ancient river bending
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Down the timeless gorge of changes
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where sleeplessness awaits
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I searched out my companions,
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Who were lost in crystal canyons
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When the aimless blade of science
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Slashed the pearly gates.
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It was then I knew I'd had enough,
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Burned my credit card for fuel
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Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand
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With a one-way ticket to the land of truth
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And my suitcase in my hand
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How I lost my friends I still don't understand.
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They had the best selection,
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They were poisoned with protection
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There was nothing that they needed,
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Nothing left to find
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They were lost in rock formations
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Or became park bench mutations
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On the sidewalks and in the stations
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They were waiting, waiting.
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So I got bored and left them there,
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They were just deadweight to me
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Better down the road without that load
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Brings back the time when I was eight or nine
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I was watchin' my mama's T.V.,
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It was that great Grand Canyon rescue episode.
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Where the vulture glides descending
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On an asphalt highway bending
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Thru libraries and museums,
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Galaxies and stars
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Down the windy halls of friendship
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To the rose clipped by the bullwhip
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The motel of lost companions
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Waits with heated pool and bar.
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But me I'm not stopping there,
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Got my own row left to hoe
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Just another line in the field of time
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When the thrashers comes, I'll be stuck in the sun
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Like the dinosaurs in shrines
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But I'll know the time has come
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To give what's mine.
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