Crosby, Stills & Nash

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in 1970.

Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) is a folk rock supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, also known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young.

Song lyrics

• Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
  We're finally on our own.
  This summer I hear the drumming,
  Four dead in Ohio.
  • Ohio, written by Neil Young.

Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)

• It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry.
  Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, '˜I am lonely.'
  I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are. You make it hard.
  • Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, written by Stephen Stills.

• Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow,
  Sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
  Voices of the angels, ring around the moonlight,
  Asking me, said, she so free, how can you catch the sparrow?
  Lacy, lilting lyrics, losing love lamenting. Change my life, make it right, be my lady.
  • Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.

• Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind,
  Had to get away to see what we could find.
  Hope the days that lie ahead
  Bring us back to where they've led.
  Listen not to what's been said to you.

  Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express?
  Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express?
  They're taking me to Marrakesh.
  All aboard the train, all aboard the train.

  • Marrakesh Express, written by Graham Nash.

• Guinnevere had green eyes
  Like yours, mi'lady, like yours.
  When she'd walk down through the garden
  In the morning after it rained.

  Peacocks wandered aimlessly
  Underneath an orange tree.
  Why can't she see me?

  • Guinnevere, written by David Crosby.

• Wooden ships on the water, very free and easy.
  Easy, you know the way it's supposed to be.
  Silver people on the shoreline, let us be,
  Talkin' 'bout very free and easy...
  Horror grips us as we watch you die.
  All we can do is echo your anguished cries.
  Stare as all human feelings die.
  We are leaving - you don't need us.
  • Wooden Ships, written by David Crosby, Paul Kantner and Stephen Stills.

• Holding you close undisturbed before the fire,
  The pressure in my chest when you breath in my ear.
  We both knew this would happen when you first appeared,
  My lady of the island.
  • Lady of the Island, written by Graham Nash.

• Helplessly hoping her harlequin hovers nearby,
  Awaiting a word.
  Gasping at glimpses of gentle true spirit he runs,
  Wishing he could fly,
  Only to trip at the sound of goodbye.
  • Helplessly Hoping, written by Stephen Stills.

• I'm flying in Winchester cathedral
  Sunlight pouring through the break of day
  Stumbled through the door and into the chamber...
  And a feeling deep inside of me
  Tells me this can't be the place... I'm flying in Winchester cathedral
  All religion has to have its day
  Expressions on the face of the Savior
  Made me say I can't stay...
  • "Cathedral," written by Graham Nash

Déjà Vu (1970)

• You, who are on the road must have a code that you can live by.
  And so become yourself because the past is just a goodbye.
  Teach your children well, their father's hell did slowly go by,
  And feed them on your dreams, the one they pick, the one you'll know by.
  Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry.
  So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
  • Teach Your Children, written by Graham Nash.

• There is a town in north Ontario,
  With dream comfort memory to spare.
  And in my mind I still need a place to go,
  All my changes were there.

  Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
  Yellow moon on the rise.
  Big birds flying across the sky,
  Throwing shadows on our eyes.

  • Helpless, written by Neil Young.

• I'll light the fire, you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today.
  Staring at the fire for hours and hours while I listen to you
  Play your love songs all night long for me, only for me.
  • Our House, written by Graham Nash.

• Our house is a very, very fine house.
  With two cats in the yard,
  Life used to be so hard,
  Now everything is easy 'cause of you.
  • Our House.

CSN (1977)

• Oh, captain, what are we hiding from?
  You've been hiding from the start.
  Did some lover steal your heart,
  Or did the full moon make you mad?

  Oh, captain, why these speechless seas
  That never seem to land?
  Oh I need to understand.
  Could a little light be that bad?

  • Shadow Captain, written by David Crosby and Craig Doerge.

• Just a song before I go, to whom it may concern.
  Travelling twice the speed of sound, it's easy to get burned.
  • Just a Song Before I Go, written by Graham Nash.

Daylight Again (1982)

• And there's so much time to make up
  Everywhere you turn.
  Time we have wasted on the way.
  So much water moving
  Underneath the bridge.
  Let the water come and carry us away.
  • Wasted on the Way, written by Graham Nash.

• When you see the Southern Cross for the first time,
  You understand now why you came this way.
  'Cause the truth you might be running from is so small.
  But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.
  So I'm sailing for tomorrow, my dreams are a'dying.
  And my love is an anchor tied to you, tied with a silver chain.
  I have my ship and all her flags are a flying.
  She is all that I have left and music is her name.
  • Southern Cross, written by Stephen Stills, Rick Curtis and Michael Curtis.

• Think about how many times I have fallen. Spirits are using me, larger voices calling.
  What heaven brought you and me cannot be forgotten.
  I have been around the world, looking for that woman-girl who knows love can endure.
  And you know it will, and you know it will.
  • Southern Cross.

• So we cheated and we lied and we tested
  And we never failed to fail, it was the easiest thing to do.
  You will survive being bested.
  Somebody fine will come along, make me forget about loving you
  At the Southern Cross.
  • Southern Cross.