100 favourite songs: #95: "Helpless" - Neil Young

Why this song, and not any number of other Neil Young songs in a similar vein? For mine, there’s just something a bit special about it, something in the shivering tenderness with which its tentative threads of vocals and instrumentation are all woven together, in the stuttering way that it slides in and its weary stumbling plaintivity thereafter, in the way that the line “throwing shadows on our eyes” makes me feel.