The "when we were strangers." verse all seems to be in past tense, including the "when we were lovers." This could mean that all that is in the past, yeah? Chorus A7sus4 A7 Because I m still in love with you A7sus4 I want to see you dance again A Because I m still in love with you D D6 Dmaj7 x4 On this harvest moon. The only other thought I might have is that he's visiting a old lover, someone he's not with but managed to stay on good terms with. However, if we're using the day as a metaphor for their life, wouldn't it make more sense for it to end when the sun goes down? And why would he want to dance just as the moon comes up? I'm not sure I'm with this theory.
Certainly a Harvest Moon is red, which could indicate blood and death. It may have a longer term meaning as well. But he's still in love with them, and still loves to dance. He's been with this person a long time, I think, perhaps has even married them and had kids. It sort of has an immediate meaning, I think. Moonlight is not as bright as the fire of the sun (i.e.,the fires of passionate love, the fires of youth) but it reflect the. But guess what, I didn't come into this or any other topic and do it, because it's obnoxious. And what's with the list? I could probably name 50 songs I like better than this one too. Sveden, why did you come onto this song's page and say all that? You didn't even say why you didn't like the song, you just said "it's a lame, wussy song." I'm sorry, but acting like having feelings is lame doesn't make you cool. Harvest Moon nods without subtlety to Neil’s star-making 1972 album, Harvest, in both its name and laidback, countrified sound.However, this is the sound of an old(er) man taking a look at his life and fighting to keep his heart of gold from fading to rust. General CommentWhile I realize it's silly to chastise someone for something they said almost a year ago. I do not think the separation is particularly desired by either party. I understand this song as a deep love that will always exist, though the two involved were separated and probably always will be. I feel that this just also correlates to the fact that years have passed between their being together, and he wants their reuniting to be wondrous, ethereal - such like childlike dreams.
The only chords I could not see for certain was the Em and A for the chorus, but I'm pretty sure that's what. He is reflecting upon this intense love that he still feels in his older years for a person he wishes to be with again, even if briefly for a single evening/dance.Īnother line: "Just like children sleepin', We could dream this night away" is also being interpreted too literally. Harvest Moon - Neil Young Tabbed by Bill Brown () 1993.11.07 I was lucky enough to have a video tape ready for taping when Neil did this one on SNL (Nov 6/93 rebroadcast) The camera work was great. Shelleys poem To the Moon is a short lyric in which the poet. I believe the harvest moon parallels a calendar year to the seasons of life.suggesting that his life is soon ending. The 2021 Harvest Moon is in Pisces meaning a spiritual connection to dream like. This song is not about a marriage or couple, but rather an all-consuming (perhaps unrequited) love that still exists. "When we were lovers, I loved you with all my heart" clarifies that the relationship is in the past. My InterpretationI agree with the above comment by lazyesq.