TG: I want to play the song Falling Of the Face Of The Earth. You mention this as one of the songs you wrote right before the procedure. It's just such a beautiful song. It's about, like, an older person's love. Not, like, new romantic, I've just fallen in love, love. But the kind of love that you have with somebody that you've been with for a very long time. It's a very beautiful song. Would you say a little bit about writing this song, Neil Young? NY: Writing Falling Of the Face Of The Earth is really a case of ... I had a melody that I was writing, that'd just come up with that night. And then I was going to bed and I couldn't come up with the lyrics. But I had a melody and chord changes. So I thought, well, you know, I'll just go to sleep, and I'll wake up in the morning and start playing the changes and the words will be there. So, I checked my voice-mail and I had a message from Jim Jarmusch, who did my film Year Of The Horse - an earlier concert film of Crazy Horse, which is almost the polar opposite of this film in some ways, because of the musical content. Jim and I are good friends and he left a voice-mail ... it seemed ... I'm not sure he knew I had this aneurysm or if he didn't ... I think he did ... but he was just thinking about me and so he left me a message. And some of the phrases that are in the message ... I played it again and I wrote down some of the phrases that he used. And in the morning I had the song all done because some of the phrases that he used in the voice-mail were in the ... I just used them out of context in this song and kind of opened up the door for everything else ... so, the chorus and everything all just fell out. Once you get started ... TG: Did he say something about he's Falling Of the Face Of The Earth? NY: No, he said, "I just want to thank you for all the things you've done. We've done some special things together." It may sound simple, things like that. Little phrases that are in the song. Neil Young "Neil Young And Jonathan Demme On The Pain And Power Of 'Heart Of Gold" Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross February 9, 2006

It’s not hard to tell what this song is about. I will always remember writing it in the Hermitage Hotel, Nashville. I’m glad to be here with you. Neil Young NYA - Now Showing in the Hearse Theater November 27, 2019