Hasten Down the Wind Live 1980
[Intro]
I said this before, and I'll say it again
There's  a song I'd like to play for ya
That  I wrote a decade ago, just about
And this is the song that came along and intervened between myself and starvation
Thanks to this song
In  those days, you know, when I wrote this song, I was not a very happy fellow
Yeah,  I was poor and strung out and screwed up
And now I'm just screwed up
I'm  very happy, thank you
Thank you very much
'Cause everybody got to change sometime
Speaking as one who's abused privilege for a long time, I'll tell ya, it's great to be alive
Thank  you

[Verse 1]
She tells him she thinks she needs to be free
He tells her he doesn't understand
She takes his hand
She tells him nothing's working out the way they planned
[Chorus]
And she's so many women
That he can't find the one who was his friend
So he's hanging on to half a heart
He can't have the restless part
So he tells her to hasten down the wind

[Interlude]
Barry, turn up the house lights
I've found the ones who were my friends

[Verse 2]
Then he agrees, he thinks she needs to be free
Then she says she'd rather be with him
But it's just a whim
By which she hopes to keep him on the limb

[Chorus]
She's so many women
That he can't find the one who was his friend
So he's hanging on to half a heart
He can't have the restless part
So he tells her to hasten down the wind
He tells her to hasten down the wind

[Instrumental Break]
[Outro]
Thank you very much
Keep on rockin'
And take my love and buy a [?]