In the liner notes from "Decade", Neil's comment on this song is: "I don't want to talk about it".
Obviously the situation Neil alludes to in this one was a very personal and emotional experience, because as far as I know he has only performed it live once. And that was many, many years after it was released on After the Gold Rush.
He didn't wish to sing about it, either.
"Now that you've made yourself love me, do you think I can change it in a day?"
That line strikes a familiar chord, as played in the non-stories of my own failed relationships...
@PeytonPlace Its my guess that the song is about Danny Whitten, the guitarist from Crazy Horse, he was a drug addict and probably used Neil as a bagman and in the song Neil is refusing to do it anymore, hoping to laugh about it in 2 years time, unfortunately Danny died 2 years later and Neil wrote "The needle and the damage done" for him on the Harvest album
@PeytonPlace Its my guess that the song is about Danny Whitten, the guitarist from Crazy Horse, he was a drug addict and probably used Neil as a bagman and in the song Neil is refusing to do it anymore, hoping to laugh about it in 2 years time, unfortunately Danny died 2 years later and Neil wrote "The needle and the damage done" for him on the Harvest album
In the liner notes from "Decade", Neil's comment on this song is: "I don't want to talk about it".
Obviously the situation Neil alludes to in this one was a very personal and emotional experience, because as far as I know he has only performed it live once. And that was many, many years after it was released on After the Gold Rush.
He didn't wish to sing about it, either.
"Now that you've made yourself love me, do you think I can change it in a day?"
That line strikes a familiar chord, as played in the non-stories of my own failed relationships...
@PeytonPlace Its my guess that the song is about Danny Whitten, the guitarist from Crazy Horse, he was a drug addict and probably used Neil as a bagman and in the song Neil is refusing to do it anymore, hoping to laugh about it in 2 years time, unfortunately Danny died 2 years later and Neil wrote "The needle and the damage done" for him on the Harvest album
@PeytonPlace Its my guess that the song is about Danny Whitten, the guitarist from Crazy Horse, he was a drug addict and probably used Neil as a bagman and in the song Neil is refusing to do it anymore, hoping to laugh about it in 2 years time, unfortunately Danny died 2 years later and Neil wrote "The needle and the damage done" for him on the Harvest album