Lyric discussion by jack83 

Agree with what most of you said: the earth represented in past-present-future, mankind ruining it, and in the end a few chosen ones flying to a new world with mother nature's silver seed. Never thought of that, but why had the loading begun "all in a dream"? Could it actually be that who's speaking dies dreaming of the escape? Or is it just referring to an unreal and dream-like atmosphere?
I think the "After gold rush" thing, apart from the movie title, refers to the end of the hippie era, such as a lot of things in Neil. Anyway, incredibly powerful and beautiful song.

"all In a dream, all in a dream. In this state of mind, senses will not affect judgment. so this what I think every time I listen to this great song. Morpheus, God of Dreams

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