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Needle And The Damage Done

This version of Needle And The Damage Done was released by Neil Young in 1972.

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I caught you knockin’
at my cellar door
I love you, baby,
can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, the damage done.

I hit the city and
I lost my band
I watched the needle
take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.

I sing the song
because I love the man
I know that some
of you don’t understand
Milk-blood
to keep from running out.

I’ve seen the needle
and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie’s
like a settin’ sun.

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The lyrics to Needle And The Damage Done are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Neil Young used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to Needle And The Damage Done 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 Needle And The Damage Done 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 Needle And The Damage Done" means the words set to the music of Needle And The Damage Done, 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 Needle And The Damage Done and the lyrics to Needle And The Damage Done 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 Needle And The Damage Done, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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