Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Zuma (1975)

Nightjar wrote:This is one of those songs where I have no idea what he's on about.

Nightjar wrote:

Nightjar wrote:This is one of those songs where I have no idea what he's on about.

The lyrics to "Danger Bird" reflect the disintegration of Young's relationship with Carrie Snodgress.

Some of the lyrics, including the lines "'Cause you've been with another man/There you are and here I am," were originally written for an unreleased song titled "L.A. Girls and Ocean Boys" that was inspired by a trip Young made to visit Snodgress in which he found out she had been cheating on him.

Music critic Johnny Rogan interprets the titular bird as a "metaphor for a doomed relationship." Rogan finds some hopefulness in the final lines "And though these wings have turned to stone/I can fly, fly fly away."

Music journalist Nigel Williamson is reminded of imagery from Young's 1968 song "The Loner" by the line "Danger bird, he flies alone."

Music author Ken Bielen finds additional themes in the song as the comfort we find in complacency and our fear of being vulnerable, for example in line in which the titular bird sings that "freedom's just a prison."

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Track 3 - Pardon My **rt.

Nightjar wrote:Is that Neil's trademark 'crackling fire in the background'?