"After The Goldrush" lyrics
"After The Goldrush"
Well I dreamed I saw the knight in armor coming
Saying something about a king
There were peasants singing and drummers drumming
And the archer split the tree
There was a fanfare blowing to the sun
That was floating on the breeze
Look at mother nature on the run
In the twenty-first century
Look at mother nature on the run
In the twenty-first century
I was lying in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes
I was hoping for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky
There was a band playing in my head
And I felt like I could cry
I was thinking about what a friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie
Thinking about what a friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie
Well I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flyin'
In the yellow haze of the sun
There was laughing, crying and colors flying
All around the chosen one
All in a dream, all in a dream, the loading had begun
Flying mother nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun
They were flying mother nature's silver seed to a new home
Neil Young has reportedly said about the meaning of this song,
"Hell, I don't know. I just wrote it. It just depends on what I was taking at the time. I guess every verse has something different I'd taken."
For this solo version of the song, Dolly Parton altered the original Neil Young's line "I felt like getting high" to "I felt like I could cry" with his permission.
Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and
Emmylou Harris made a very successful version of this song for their "Trio II" album in 1999. They even received a Grammy award for their effort.
The
music video for Trio's version of "After The Goldrush" was very popular on cable networks.
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album:
"Treasures" (1996)