"milk blood to keep from running out" from the song "the needle and the damage done" means? I figure it's got something to do with drug use, but i'm not very knowledgable about this subject.
2006-12-16 15:44:09 · 6 answers · asked by jo 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
i love that song and it was recorded at royce hall, which is awesome. here is what i found about it:
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On a stanza from "Needle and the Damage Done":
I sing this song because I love the man,
I know that some of you won't understand:
Milk blood to keep from running out.
A friend of mine once suggested that the last line of this stanza pertains to a practice of junkies, where they milk a little blood out into the needle after shooting up, since it will have some heroin traces in it, to shoot up later when they need another hit. I don't dismiss that reading of the line, but in the context of the other lines of the stanza, Neil seems to commenting on the song itself, and what he's getting at, I think, is that he's writing about this tragedy (milking the blood, as it were) in the hope that it will save some (to keep from "running out" of blood).
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i found it at this website: http://www.thrasherswheat.org/2006/07/lyrics-analysis-of-neil-youngs-songs.html
it's interesting, and seems very credible. you would have to know the fine details of heroin addiction, i guess, to verify it.
rock on.
2006-12-16 15:58:58 · answer #1 · answered by lb 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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Nathan, that's Neil Diamond. I'm hoping you knew that. "Once you're gone, you can't come back when you're out of the blue and into the black"
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can anyone please explain to me what the Neil young lyric...?
"milk blood to keep from running out" from the song "the needle and the damage done" means? I figure it's got something to do with drug use, but i'm not very knowledgable about this subject.
2015-08-18 16:05:27 · answer #3 · answered by Perla 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I took it to be a reference to blood transfusions. I suppose Neil was making a connection to drug addiction and the unnecessary drain it makes on our nations medical resources.
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2015-08-04 13:36:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know, but i absolutely love that song
have you heard Lior singing it? try to find that version it's so good
2006-12-16 15:46:48 · answer #6 · answered by natalia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like heroin usage to me
2006-12-16 15:48:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This explains it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Needle_and_the_Damage_Done
2006-12-16 15:52:18 · answer #8 · answered by Secret Agent of God (BWR) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋