Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Just a Song Before I Go Meaning
Song Released: 1977
Just a Song Before I Go Lyrics
To whom it may concern
Travelling twice the speed of sound
It's easy to get burned
When the shows were over
We had to get back home
And when we opened up the door
I had to be alone
She helped me with my suitcase
She...
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Nash just described that he was at someone’s house. This person said to him “ I hear you’re a big shot musician who writes and sings songs. This person bet him that he couldn’t write a song right now for $500.00.
So this is how this song came to be.... True story told by Graham Nash.
He won the $500.00!!! -
I heard on a radio program featuring Graham Nash, that he was waiting to go on a tour, and someone he was staying with in Hawaii bet hem he couldn't write a song in the short time before he had to go.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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Go on tour...have an affair...fall in love...then have to return home and put that relationship behind...and everyone is burned, but should have known better.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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First, the title: Graham Nash was living in Hawaii in the mid-Seventies, and was about to leave home to start a lengthy concert tour. While he was waiting, he thought, "I have a little time... maybe I could write a song before I go."
The lyrics make sense once you realize that Nash wrote it just as he was about to leave home for months. The song is about a musician who's packing to leave his home and loved ones. His wife or girlfriend helps him pack and drives him to the airport. They exchange tender hugs, then she has to go. And he's going to be alone, far from home, for a very long time.
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