Lyrics to
Field Of Opportunity

This version of Field Of Opportunity was released by Neil Young in 1978.

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I’ve been wrong before
And I’ll be there again
I 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 borrow seeds of sadness
From 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.

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.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Field Of Opportunity, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Neil Young. Some of the lyrics to Field Of Opportunity have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Neil Young and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Field Of Opportunity if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Field Of Opportunity" means the words set to the music of Field Of Opportunity, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Neil Young. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Field Of Opportunity and the lyrics to Field Of Opportunity are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Neil Young who came here looking just for the lyrics to Field Of Opportunity, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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