First: It's based on the plot to a movie which never got released and nobody seems to be able to remember the plot to, except that it was very, very trippy and metaphysical. Like Twilight Zone kind of fantasy/scifi metaphysical, I mean.
The title of the movie/song "After the Gold Rush" does suggest a certain sense of trouble and foreboding. It's almost presented as a hypothetical answer to a question: Gold rushes involve major excitement from lots of people, but once they're done, it's over like INSTANTLY and everything is abandoned and forgotten like it never even happened.
So based on that alone, I would hypothesize it has something to do with the Earth, and humanity, moving on to another stage of...existence? Moving off the planet altogether maybe?
Neil may not have been an acidhead, but I know the cat who wrote THIS sure was....
First: It's based on the plot to a movie which never got released and nobody seems to be able to remember the plot to, except that it was very, very trippy and metaphysical. Like Twilight Zone kind of fantasy/scifi metaphysical, I mean.
The title of the movie/song "After the Gold Rush" does suggest a certain sense of trouble and foreboding. It's almost presented as a hypothetical answer to a question: Gold rushes involve major excitement from lots of people, but once they're done, it's over like INSTANTLY and everything is abandoned and forgotten like it never even happened.
So based on that alone, I would hypothesize it has something to do with the Earth, and humanity, moving on to another stage of...existence? Moving off the planet altogether maybe?
Neil may not have been an acidhead, but I know the cat who wrote THIS sure was....