Four and Twenty (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young from the Deja Vu album; written by Stills

Pretty depressing but sung beautifully nonetheless. One of my favorite albums. I need to transfer it from cassette to CD. I still have the original album.


Four and twenty years ago I come into this life,
The son of a woman and a man who lived in strife.
He was tired of being poor and he wasn't into selling door to door
And he worked like the devil to be more.

A different kind of poverty now upsets me so.
Night after sleepless night, I walk the floor and I want to know - why am I so alone?
Where is my woman? Can I bring her home? Have I driven her away? Is she gone?

Morning comes to sunrise and I'm driven to my bed.
I see that it is empty and there's devils in my head.
I embrace the many colored beast. I grow weary of the torment. Can there be no peace?
And I find myself just wishing that my life would simply cease.