After the Gold Rush was written by Young in 1970 who, at age 25, had already had great success as a member of the group Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. The album, “After The Gold Rush” was a solo effort and this song was written specifically for a screenplay written by Dean Stockwell, a neighbor of Young’s at the time, about the end of the world. Living in California at the time, it’s was probably natural to use the California Gold Rush as a metaphor. The song’s first verse is a backward look at a simpler time hundreds of years ago, the second one is the present where we are systematically destroying our world, especially our environment, and the third is when humanity’s only chance to survive is to take a few “chosen ones” to a new home somewhere out in the universe away from the planet we have already destroyed. The script on which he based his song has been lost.
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