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lovely :-)

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Neil Young is certainly on the side of the free world, but "Rockin'" is not exactly triumphal. All of the lyrics are at least cautionary, ranging up to brutal. A baby is abandoned in a garbage can!

"There's one more kid that'll never go to school

Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool"

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i agree. the official video of the song was depressing and had zero to do with the implosion of the ussr, tearing down the berlin wall, etc. i was a big fan of neil young in the late 1970s and his rust never sleeps project

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