neil young - out on the weekend - stereo remix

Edit for headphones, December 2021. An edit of the song of the 1972 album "Harvest" (2014 Pono remaster).
About Pono: Pono (Hawaiian for "proper" or "righteousness") was a portable digital media player and music download service for high-resolution audio, developed by Neil Young and his company PonoMusic.

Neil Young recorded this song at at Nashville's Quadrafonic Sound Studios in April 1971. He laid it down with a group of country session musicians, which he christened "The Stray Gators".

In the book "Zero To Sixty" Neil explained that this song isn't necessarily a sad one, as the singer is disguising his happiness. Regarding the lines: 'Can't relate to joy, he tries to speak and can't begin to say' he said: "That just means that I'm happy so that I can't get it all out. But... the way I wrote it sounds sad."

OUT ON THE WEEKEND
(Neil Young)

think I'll pack it in and
buy a pick-up
take it down to L.A.

find a place to call my own and try to fix up
start a brand new day

the woman I'm thinking of she
loved me all up
but I'm so down today

she's so fine she's in my mind
I hear her calling

see the lonely boy out on the weekend
trying to make it pay
can't relate to joy
he tries to speak and
can't begin to say

she got pictures on the wall they make me look up
from her big brass bed

now I'm running down the road
trying to stay up
somewhere in her head

the woman I'm thinking of she
loved me all up
but I'm so down today

she's so fine she's in my mind
I hear her calling

see the lonely boy
out on the weekend
trying to make it pay

can't relate to joy
he tries to speak and
can't begin to say, oh

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