“Out on the Weekend” is the first song off of Neil Young’s 1972 album Harvest. In an interview with Rolling Stone in 1975 Young describes recording the album on his farm while he was recovering from surgery:
I have one weak side and all the muscles slipped on me. My discs slipped. I couldn’t hold m...
[Verse 1]
Think I'll pack it in and buy a pick-up
Take it down to L.A
Find a place to call my own and try to fix up
Start a brand new day
[Pre-Chorus]
The woman I'm thinking of, she loved me all up
But I'm so down today
She's so fine, she's in my mind
I hear her calling
[Chorus]
See the lonely boy out on the weekend
Trying to make it pay
Can't relate to joy, he tries to speak and
Can't begin to say
[Verse 2]
She got pictures on the wall, they make me look up
From her big brass bed
Now I'm running down the road, trying to stay up
Somewhere in her head
[Pre-Chorus]
The woman I'm thinking of, she loved me all up
But I'm so down today
She's so fine, she's in my mind
I hear her calling
[Chorus]
See the lonely boy out on the weekend
Trying to make it pay
Can't relate to joy, he tries to speak and
Can't begin to say
Out on the Weekend was written by Neil Young.
Out on the Weekend was produced by Elliot Mazer & Neil Young.
Neil Young released Out on the Weekend on Tue Feb 01 1972.