![]() ![]() There are knights, and drumming and peasants nearby cheering…overall it seems like a relatively idyllic, orderly time. As he is waiting there he has dreams of the past and future, as well as thoughts about his current situation. It appears that Young (or the narrator) is in his bedroom getting high waiting for his (or his replacement’s) draft number to be selected to go to the Vietnam war. The song is vague, but Young’s one clear lyric that stands out is the above, “Look at Mother Nature on the run in the nineteen seventies.” The rest of what happens in the song is very much open to interpretation. ![]() Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush” is a song (kind of) about environmental conservatism and activism from over forty years ago.
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