Neil Young – Comes A Time [1978]

Year Released: 1978

Record Company: Reprise

1. Goin’ Back (4:41)
2. Comes a Time (3:06)
3. Look Out for My Love (4:05)
4. Lotta Love (2:38)
5. Peace of Mind (4:10)
6. Human Highway (3:10)
7. Already One (4:54)
8. Field of Opportunity (3:09)
9. Motorcycle Mama (3:11)
10. Four Strong Winds (4:05)

GOIN’ BACK

In a foreign land
There were creature at play
Running hand in hand
Leaving nowhere to stay
Driven to the mountains high
They were sunken in the cities deep
Livin’ in my sleep.

I feel like goin’ back
Back where there’s nowhere to stay
When fire fills the sky
I’ll still remember that day
Those rocks I’m climbin’ down
Have already left the ground
Careening through space

I used to build these buildings
I used to walk next to you
Their shadows tore us apart
And now we do what we do
Driven to the mountains high
Sunken in our cities deep
Livin’ in our sleep

I feel like goin’ back
Back where there’s nowhere to stay
I feel like goin’ back
Back where there’s nowhere to stay
I feel like goin’ back
Back where there’s nowhere to stay
I feel like goin’ back
Back where there’s nowhere to stay

COME A TIME

Comes a time when you’re driftin’
Come a time when you settle down
Comes a light feelin’s liftin’
Lift that baby right up off the ground

Chorus: Oh, this old world keeps spinning round
It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down
There comes a time

You and I we were captured
Comes a time when you settle down
We were right we were giving
That’s how we kept what we gave away

Chorus: Oh, this old world keeps spinning round
It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down
There comes a time

LOOK OUT FOR MY LOVE

There’s a lot to learn
For wastin’ time
There’s a heart that burns
There’s an open mind

Chorus: Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
You own it
You own it now
You own it

There’s a weight on you
But you can’t feel it
Livin’ like I do
It’s hard for you to see it

Was I hurt too bad
Can I show you the daylight
How could I be sad
When I know that you might

Chorus: Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
It’s in your neighborhood
I know things are gonna change
But I can’t say bad or good No No

Silver wings of mornin’
Shinin’ in the gray day
While the ice is formin’
On a lonely runway

Hydraulic wipers pumpin’
’til the window glistens
Somethin’ sayin’ somethin’
No one seems to listen

Men with walkie-talkies
Men with flashlights wavin’
Up upon the tower
Time reads daylight savings

I’m home again to you babe
You know it makes me wonder
Sittin’ in the quiet slipstream
In the thunder

Chorus: Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love

LOTTA LOVE

INTRO: La La La La La La La La La
Ooh, Ooh

It’s gonna take a lotta love
To change the way things are.
It’s gonna take a lotta love
Or we won’t get too far
So if you look in my direction
And we don’t see eye to eye,
My heart needs protection and so do I.

It’s gonna take a lotta love
To get us thru the night.
It’s gonna take a lotta love
To make things work out right.
So if you are out there waitin’
I hope you show up soon,
‘Cause my heart needs relaxing not solitude

Gotta lotta love
Gotta lotta love
La La La La La La La La La
Ooh, Ooh

It’s gonna take a lotta love
To change the way things are.
It’s gonna take a lotta love
Or we won’t get too far.
It’s gonna take a lotta love
To change the way things are.
It’s gonna take a lotta love
Or we won’t get too far
Or we won’t get too far
(Repeat to fade)

PEACE OF MIND

You know it takes a long, long time
You know it takes a long, long time
You love her so and still you know
That you will never want to let her go
Unless you leave her first
Then you come “out on top”
But, still there’s just one thing
You haven’t got
Like when you treated her kind
It’s hard to face that open space
You’re lookin’ for peace of mind
Anywhere you can find
Still searchin’ for peace of mind.

You know it takes a long, long time
You know it takes a long, long time
When first you gave and shared your soul
Showed her all the things that take their toll
She knows your weak spot
But, still she gets you hot
And, so you do it again
Reveal what lies within
And go for peace of mind
Like when you treated her kind
It’s hard to face that open space
You know it takes a long, long time
You know it takes a long, long time.

HUMAN HIGHWAY

I come down from the misty mountain
I got lost on the human highway
Take my head refreshing fountain
Take my eyes from what they’ve seen
Take my head and change my mind
How could people get so unkind.

I came down from the crooked mansion
I went lookin’ for the d.j.’s daughter
Since that day I heard it mentioned
That my name is on the line
Now, my name is on the line
How could people get so unkind.

Now, my name is on the line
How could people get so unkind.

ALREADY ONE

What can I do
What can I say
Running down this suspicious highway
I can’t forget how
Love gets me down
And when we meet it still gets in my way

Chorus: But we’re already one
Already one
Now only time can come between us
‘Cause we’re already one
Our little son won’t let us forget.

Your laughing eyes
Your crazy smile
Everytime I look in his face
I can’t believe how
Love lasts for a while
And looks like “forever” in the first place.

Chorus: But we’re already one
Already one
Now only time can come between us
‘Cause we’re already one
Our little son won’t let us forget.

In my new life
I’m travelin’ light
Eyes wide open for the next move
I can’t go wrong
‘Til I get right
But I’m not fallin’ back in the same groove.

Chorus: But we’re already one
Already one
Now only time can come between us
‘Cause we’re already one
Our little son won’t let us forget.

FIELD OF OPPORTUNITY

I’ve been wrong before
And I’ll be there again
I just don’t have any answers my friend
Just this pile of old questions
My memory left me here
In the field of opportunity
It’s plowin’ time again.

I’m going’ back to my house
But I’m not goin’ now
It’s too early to be leaving here, somehow
Let me bore you with this story
“How my lover let me down”
While I bury seeds of sadness in the ground.

In the field of opportunity
It’s plowin’ time again.
There ain’t no way of telling
Where these seeds will rise or when
I’ll just wait around ’til springtime
And then, I’ll find a friend
In the field of opportunity
It’s plowin’ time again.

When I’m all done cultivatin’
I’ll be rockin’ on the porch
Tryin’ to picture you and where you are
And there’ll be no hesitatin’
When Cupid lights the torch
With those headlights comin’ down the hill
Between the stars.

MOTORCYCLE MAMA

Chorus: Motorcycle Mama
Won’t you lay your big spike down
Motorcycle Mama
Won’t you lay your big spike down
Always get in trouble when you bring it round
Motorcycle Mama
Won’t you lay it down.

I’m runnin’, I’m runnin’, I’m runnin’
Down the proud highway
Yeah, I’m runnin’, I’m runnin’, I’m runnin’
Down the proud highway
And as long as I keep movin’
I won’t need a place to stay.

Repeat Chorus

Well I’m here to deliver
I hope you can read my mail
(oh, yeah)
I just escaped last night
From the memory county jail
I see your box is open
And you flag is up
My message is ready
if there’s time enough.

Repeat Chorus

FOUR STRONG WINDS

Think I’ll go out to Alberta
Weather’s good there in the fall
I got some friends that I could go to working for.
Still I wish you’d change your mind
If I ask you one more time
But we’ve been through this a hundred times or more.

Chorus: Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don’t change come what may.
If all the good times are all gone
Then I’m bound for movin’ on
I’ll look for you if I’m ever back this way.

If I get there before the snow flies
And if things are lookin’ good
You could meet me if I send you down the fare.
But, by then it would be winter
Not too much for you to do
And those winds sure can blow cold ‘way out there.

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Goin’ Back
Comes A Time
Look Out For My Love*
Peace Of Mind
Lotta Love*
Human Highway
Already One**
Field Of Opportunity***
Motorcycle Mama
Four Strong Winds

Neil Young: guitar, harmonica, vocal

Gone With The Wind Orchestra:
Nicolette Larson: vocal
Ben Keith: pedal steel guitar
Carl Himmel: drums
Tim Drummond: bass
Spooner Oldham: piano
Rufus Thibodeaux: fiddle
Joe Osborne: bass
Larrie Londin: drums
J. J. Cale: electric guitar
Farrel Morris: percussion
Grant Boatright: guitar
Bucky Barret: guitar
John Christopher: guitar
Jerry Shook: guitar
Vic Jordan: guitar
Steve Gibson: guitar
Dale Sellers: guitar
Ray Edenton: guitar
Rita Fey: autoharp
Shelly Kurland: strings
Stephanie Woolf: strings
Marvin Chantry: strings
Roy Christensen: strings
Gary Vanosdale: strings
Carl Goroditzby: strings
George Binkley: strings
Steve Smith: strings
Larry Harvin: strings
Larry Lasson: strings
Carol Walker: strings
Rebecca Lynch: strings
Virginia Christensen: strings
Maryanna Harvin: strings
George Kosmola: strings
Martha McCrory: strings

*Neil Young & Crazy Horse:
Neil Young: guitar, vocal
Frank Sampedro: guitar, vocal
Billy Talbot: bass, vocal
Ralph Molina: drums, vocal
And guest:
Tim Mulligan: saxophone

Strings by Chuck Cochran, except “Goin’ Back” and “Comes A Time” by Neil Young & Chuck Cochran

Recorded at Triad Recording, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Columbia Recording Studio, London; Wally Heider Recording Studio, Hollywood; Woodland Sound Studios, Nashville; Sound Shop, Nashville, and Broken Arrow Ranch, Redwood City, CA, Nov. 28, 1975-Nov. 21, 1977

Produced by Neil Young, Ben Keith & Tim Mulligan, except
*Produced by Neil Young, David Briggs & Tim Mulligan
**Produced by Neil Young & Ben Keith
***Produced by Neil Young & Tim Mulligan

Neil Young – Comes A Time [1978]

1. Goin’ Back (4:41) 2. Comes a Time (3:06) 3. Look Out for My Love (4:05) 4. Lotta Love (2:38) 5. Peace of Mind (4:10) 6. Human Highway (3:10) 7. Already One (4:54) 8. Field of Opportunity (3:09) 9. Motorcycle Mama (3:11) 10. Four Strong Winds (4:05)

1. Goin’ Back (4:41)
2. Comes a Time (3:06)
3. Look Out for My Love (4:05)
4. Lotta Love (2:38)
5. Peace of Mind (4:10)
6. Human Highway (3:10)
7. Already One (4:54)
8. Field of Opportunity (3:09)
9. Motorcycle Mama (3:11)
10. Four Strong Winds (4:05)