On the Beach
Following the 1973 Time Fades Away tour, Neil Young wrote and recorded an I… Read Full Bio ↴Following the 1973 Time Fades Away tour, Neil Young wrote and recorded an Irish wake of a record called Tonight's the Night and went on the road drunkenly playing its songs to uncomprehending listeners and hostile reviewers. Reprise rejected the record, and Young went right back and made On the Beach, which shares some of the ragged style of its two predecessors. But where Time was embattled and Tonight mournful, On the Beach was savage and, ultimately, triumphant. "I'm a vampire, babe," Young sang, and he proceeded to take bites out of various subjects: threatening the lives of the stars who lived in L.A.'s Laurel Canyon ("Revolution Blues"); answering back to Lynyrd Skynyrd, whose "Sweet Home Alabama" had taken him to task for his criticisms of the South in "Southern Man" and "Alabama" ("Walk On"); and rejecting the critics ("Ambulance Blues"). But the barbs were mixed with humor and even affection, as Young seemed to be emerging from the grief and self-abuse that had plagued him for two years. But the album was so spare and under-produced, its lyrics so harrowing, that it was easy to miss Young's conclusion: he was saying goodbye to despair, not being overwhelmed by it.
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On the Beach
Neil Young Lyrics


Ambulance Blues Back in the old folky days The air was magic when…
For The Turnstiles All the sailors with their seasick mamas Hear the sirens on…
Motion Pictures Motion pictures on my TV screen A home away from home,…
On the Beach World is turnin' I hope it don't turn away The world is…
Revolution Blues Well, we live in a trailer at the edge of…
See the Sky About to Rain See the sky about to rain, broken clouds and rain Locomotive…
Vampire Blues I'm a vampire, babe, suckin' blood from the earth I'm a…
Walk On I saw the change rolling by out the window of…


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