Lyrics to
Fontainebleau

This version of Fontainebleau was released by Neil Young in 1976.

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Who put the palm
over my blonde?
Who put all the tar
on the morning sand?
Who took everything
from where it once was
And put it where
it was last seen?

Fontainebleau,
they painted it green
Fontainebleau,
for the well-to-do
At the Fontainebleau.

There’s a palace in the gravy
That’s holding on and on and on
Even after
all the blue-haired ladies
And the wheelchairs are gone.

I guess the reason
I’m so scared of it
Is I stayed there once
and I almost fit
I left before I got out of it
People were drownin’
in their own…

Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau,
was that me?
Fontainebleau,
well I guess I’ll see
Fontainebleau.

Fontainebleau,
where the surfer works
Fontainebleau,
’til the break of day
Fontainebleau,
’cause it takes a shark
Fontainebleau,
to catch a wave at the
Fontainebleau.

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About Lyrics and Fontainebleau by Neil Young

The lyrics to Fontainebleau are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Neil Young used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Fontainebleau have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Neil Young and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Fontainebleau by Neil Young. 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 Fontainebleau" means the words set to the music of Fontainebleau, 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 Fontainebleau and the lyrics to Fontainebleau 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 Fontainebleau, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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