Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Young
Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff’s 2010 biography of Young, Neil Young: Long May You Run, describes “The Loner” as “a bit of self-mythologizing on Young’s part, perhaps, as it concerns a menacing (but emotionally vulnerable) figure who is ‘the unforeseen danger, the keeper of the keys to the locks.”
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[Verse 1]
He's a perfect stranger
Like a cross of himself and a fox
He's a feeling arranger
And a changer of the ways he talks
He's the unforeseen danger
The keeper of the key to the locks
[Chorus]
Know when you see him
Nothing can free him
Step aside, open wide
It's the loner
[Verse 2]
If you see him in the subway
He'll be down at the end of the car
Watching you move
Until he knows he knows who you are
When you get off at your station alone
He'll know that you are
[Chorus]
Know when you see him
Nothing can free him
Step aside, open wide
It's the loner
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Verse 3]
There was a woman he knew
About a year or so ago
She had something that he needed
And he pleaded with her not to go
On the day that she left
He died but it did not show
[Chorus]
Know when you see him
Nothing can free him
Step aside, open wide
It's the loner
The Loner was written by Neil Young.
The Loner was produced by David Briggs & Neil Young.
Neil Young released The Loner on Wed Jan 22 1969.