The Meaning of....

Preparing myself mentally for this Saturday, when my family will spread my dad's ashes in a garden at his church, I came back to Neil Young's "Daddy Went Walkin'," a song that took on great meaning to me in the days and weeks after my father's death. I was surprised, as I searched online for Young's interpretation of the lyrics, by other people's impressions of the song.

In a PopMatters review of Young's Silver & Gold album, Bill Holmes's interpretation is that the song "deals with broken fa...