399. "Long May You Run" Neil Young and Stephen Stills

"Long May You Run"
Neil Young and Stephen Stills
Long May You Run
1976

Sometimes being a rock insider with INSIDER ROCK KNOWLEDGE backfires.
This was always one of my favorite songs. I imagined it as a song about a child running through a meadow, and the narrator mourning the fact that the child grew up. Or maybe a beloved horse or dog who had passed on.
And then I found out it was about Neil Young's fucking CAR.
Almost ruined the whole thing. Now when I hear this song, I think about rusty old Buicks. If I still pictured little kids running through sun dappled meadows, this is a Top 100 tune.