Young, Neil - I Wonder Why Lyrics

Beautifully written and soulfully sung...Love the use of a standard piano only

amazing man,,, absolutely beautiful

They are Angel Cadets

Bin a neil young fan for 45 years or more long may he run

my daughter had triplets 2 years ago....twin girls and a boy. I love 'em more than anything. My grandson has CP.......it just tears me up, but he is a happy kid, always smiling and laughing and trying to get everyone else to laugh....still, it's hard.

I Thought this was one of Neil's first songs he wrote? Maybe with a change in some lyrics anyway

I agree with the writer below who said this would not have fit with the other songs on Reactor, but this would have been the best song on that forgettable album ("Shots" was a great song, but ruined by the overproduction).

Neil put a lot of unreleased tracks on albums, that didn’t make it.this song eventually found its way to psychedelic pill somehow, Neil has a lot of amazing material that gets released and some stays unreleased song is interstate it never made it to an album if I’m correct.

I love the entire record. and "overproduced" is perhaps the last word I would use to describe it. the rawness, quirky humor and complete disregard for commercial appeal is a big part of the charm.

@kissmabass Interstate is on the Broken Arrow LP as a bonus track. all alone on side 4

Patrick Jennings you’re right I just saw it is after track eight,

kissmabass LP only though. Its not on the CD or cassette.

I didn't know that.

i wonder as well. Why was my son born this way?

the version he released officially is overproduced garbage...unfortunately he does that to a lot of his folk music...sigh.

Eh, I"m a huge neil fan...when you've heard every version of every song as many times as I do...you start to get annoyed by what he actually officially releases. He's stubborn as hell and releases shitty version of his material...it's kind of funny in an aggravating way.

I have a theory that the stuff that is Neil at his most personal and vulnerable is the stuff that he often really overdoes, perhaps to try and obscure the lyrics and vulnerability somewhat. The album Homegrown is supposedly a really bare acoustic affair, but some of the tracks from that appear on other albums all hammed up. And Storytone is a more recent example aswell where I think the orchestral and big band themes are used to overly embellish the instrumentation and detract from the deeply personal lyrics. The stripped back acoustic versions of those songs are far better in my opinion

This song will endure. Thank you Neil Young.

much more meaningful & moving i think if you know about his son.

Why would anyone give this beautiful song a thumbs down? Idiots!!

Beautiful, nothing less ...

Well this song is now released on Psychadelic Pills

Song is called For The Love Of Man

you really feel his heart in here.

So beautiful and touching it almost hurts!

Another gift of compassion The Man is totally Blessed.

wow, beautiful. reminds me of stringman, but different

Wonderful ... sad and wonderful in it's sadness ....

What a great tune

Love This, Thank You

This is fabulous..thank you

wow!! stumbled onto this..beautiful..excellent post,thank you. Dennis

Never heard this tune before. I knew about his son. The lyrics are such a beautiful tribute to those less fortunate.

Thank you for posting. I can tell you have beautiful soul,

The Meltdownman

Nice man, This is what the tube is all about. Hearing stuff like this..peace..