DM: I'm The Ocean has this rather different perspective in the lyrics. I was trying to figure ... I was saying first ... well the guy ... we're hearing this from someone beyond the grave and I decided it was someone dreaming about they're dead. NY: Well, you know, someone else tried, someone showed me a video plan that they had for this song and it had the same kind of thing you're talking about. But you know, the song doesn't mean that much - it doesn't mean that to me. Maybe it's kind of like a bunch of flashes of things going on all at the same time or something. So you get kind of the feeling that your life is flashing before you. So that makes you think you're floating up on the ceiling somewhere watching. But I think - I wasn't thinking about that. I just got caught up in this thing where everything just kept happening and all I could do was write it down. But it wasn't going backwards - it was going forwards. So, finally, I tried to not think about what I was writing as you ... I just tried to keep going and now I listen to it ... it's different every time. Neil Young Mirror Ball world premier with Dave Marsh August 1995