NeIL Young: wORds - w/ ROcK VIoLIN ~ (between the lines of age) fidDle

Played to Neil Young's great song "Words".
I am playing accoustic violin with no effects.
Non mic'ed accoustic fiddle. Recorded with a cheap Sony flip cam (called a webbie). The microphone is about the size of a half grain of rice.

One more note. I used to play the violin and guitar alot. Than I got an impinged nerve in my neck. When I play I play in some pain and the feeling in two of my fingers is somewhat numb. I have played a handfull of times in the last eight years.
Before that I played every chance I got for as long as I could anywhere I could lol.

Last word... I had no plans on uploading this. I recorded it two nights ago. Figured I would upload it while I am getting back into playing form. Blah blah blah. There ya have it!

I found these quotes concerning a few peoples thoughts on the meaning of "Words". They are from SongMeanings dot net:

"Sounds like Neil wrote a philosophical song about himself on his own birthday. He's sitting in his kitchen inside his house watching workers through the window (they're down by the pond, looking for something to plant in the lawn). He sees guests coming up the road, bringing presents and then greeting him. He's wondering what they would think, how they would behave toward him, if he were someone different than who he is...someone who doesn't "live in castles, a bit at a time". The "king laughing and talking in rhymes" is himself; the words are his words, during his years on earth. On his birthday, he's feeling a little bitter...a little sad...a bit regretful...probably glad he's who he is - yet wondering who would he be, were he someone else."

"... the lyrics are definitely about a type of isolation, about not ever really knowing others. "Someone and someone" suggests everyone is a "no one", that people are kind of faceless and nameless, going through dull motions: looking, turning, sitting, waiting. Also, the idea of "thinking your mind was my own" seems to be about losing track of who one is inside and needing to connect with someone on the deepest possible level.
"Windows" come up twice. To me, this is about being the observer, sitting back and watching others going through mundane, repetitive motions in their lives, but always from behind glass. It's his job to sing about what he sees and to speak with some depth, but also he's saying that the meanings can never be fully communicated, just briefly glimpsed between the lines.
There is a surreal, illogical quality that invites multiple meanings. The impossibility of making a coherent story out of this is really exactly what the lyrics are about. He starts like he's going to tell you a story, but the story goes missing. By the end it has an uneasy, surreal fairy tale quality. The King is an archetypal image, but even the king veers off into nonsensical rhymes. I don't think this song is about a hopeless loneliness; it starts from that but it's also about the power of words and song to reach across the gaps and "shine the stars" of our being. I think this song is meant to be deep and existential. "Lines of age" refers the weight of the years we feel from the loneliness, as if time itself has etched deep lines into our soul's landscape."

"it's a dreamer's song about how everything in his life goes slowly (the rythem of the song is also very slow, so this is reflected) he doesn't join in with what everyone else is doing, he just see's what, 'someone and someone' perhaps he wants someone, but he is perhaps shy? he doesnt want to go out and meet people,
is he dreaming when he says 'they're bringing me presents and saying hello'
they sing words between the lines of age, i dont know what this means, maybe they sing words of things that might happen, but as they get older, they know it wont happen, but they still think of it between the lines of age.
he hopes 'this water will boil' there is no mention of fire or heat to warm the water, he is just hoping it will boil, like he hopes something else will happen, but he is too much of a dreamer to get out and make it happen.
he thinks 'If I was a junkman selling you cars,
Washing your windows and shining your stars' would that make 'you' happy, would that make something change?
'thinking your mind was my own' he dreams about what 'you' would think if 'you' were him'
you would dream of living in castles, abit at a time' the dreams would build up a bit at a time, then you would realize that it would never happen, as as soon as you try to make it happen, ''the king started laughin'' at what you wanted, and confusing the matter by ' talking in rhyme'
you would then understand why he cant face going out and leaving his dreams.
so like the others, as he gets older and ages more, he sings words of what could happen but sadly never will.
such a hard song to understand, i wonder what neil really meant."

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[Cammackaveli]

Love how this blends!! Well done, wasn't expecting much honestly but this was nicely covered w/ violin!

[curiousgeorge555]

@Cammackaveli Hey, I appreciate the good Words. Thanks.

[BjavaBbotBme]

How did I miss this one? Wow... c'est magnifique!

[curiousgeorge555]

@BjavaBbotBme Thanx B! Qui a le temps de voir tous les téléchargements sur un site moins qu'il y ait un ou deux? Alors heureux que vous ayez attrapé et l'ont apprécié. Merci!

[11xzxzxz]

You mention that you are using a mic the size of 1/2 gr of rice. To put that in improper behavioral perspective that is 1 gazillion times larger than the number of times Herman Cain has admitted inappropriate behavior. "No need to get excited" the thief/businessman he kindly spoke. "But let us not talk falsely now, my hour is getting late and I have more women to come and go and chase but that is not my fate as I am in the race to stay". There's too much confusion all along the watch tower..

[curiousgeorge555]

@11xzxzxz Herman Munster laughed at his inappropriate behavior. Lilly didn't think it was funny but at least she wasn't in denial about it.

[11xzxzxz]

I got two friends over and we all like this a lot.

[BjavaBbotBme]

@curiousgeorge555 Vraiment un plaisir mon ami!

[11xzxzxz]

This video is just one of my all time favorites. Just so psychedelic and no I really didn't do any drugs contrary to rumors. It's just a real personal experience and the violin is so good to hear on this song. I forgot that I liked Neil's song but not this much until your version came along. Great job along with all your videos. Sorry I sound smarmy as if I want a favor but really I am I just an "excitable boy" or something..

[11xzxzxz]

@curiousgeorge555 Nice one! More than Alright, Jack! I sort of pictured Cain as Herman for a second and Michele Bachman as Lilly. Or was it Bogart in the Cain Mutiny Mutation movie .. I forget I just don't recoil now.