Its a bit student bedroom neil. But its still a good song. 

😆😘🥰 Beautiful music Neil and friends

Right on!  The lyrics remind me of Rachel Carson, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Roderick Frazier Nash,  and many other Environmentalists .  Water, Trees , wildlife are essential~

This song was inspiration for our Sing for Climate Action events. Thank you Neil!

fine lyrics, this song is very important today

gonna stand up and break the walls ! live tolerance and peace !

Real nice one Neil, we do need to hear it. Bless it!

Ahead of the People's Climate March, Neil Young shared with Democracy Now! an acoustic solo recording of his new song, "Who's Gonna Stand Up" (previously unreleased). We will be broadcasting the song during our 3-hour special live broadcast from the march on Sunday, September 21 from 10:30am to 1:30pm ET. Watch the livestream at democracynow.org. Democracy Now! is an independent, global news hour that is hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Watch the daily broadcast and search our vast archive of news reports at http://democracynow.org. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Stitcher, SoundCloud, Google+ and Pinterest.

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Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/28/orson-welles-reads-walt-whitman-song-of-myself/

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Orson Welles reads Walt Whitman

From album I Dreamed an Island out on 21 october 2016 (UK: Nov 4th)
http://idreamedanisland.com

Cloak of Blue is inspired by the precious stone, "Lapis Lazuli", the most prestigious pigment that a Medieval artist could use and one that came to Europe all the way from Afghanistan. The subject of the song is a Sicilian artist that I imagined to be working at the court of King Roger II of Sicily. The “turning leaf” is the gold leaf adorning his paintings or mosaics and the “souls he gathers” are the ones who are moved by his artistry.
It’s easy to forget today but in a world where only the privileged few had access to books and images, seeing the mosaics and frescos in the churches, circa eight hundred years ago, must have been an extraordinary experience. The inspiration for this song are the remarkable Byzantine mosaics in Cefalu, Sicily and the mesmerising blue of the Pantacrotor’s cloak.

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