Moonlight/Lady From the Mountain

[AnthonyMI]

Originally Posted by UndoingTheLaces

My favorite version of Lady From the Mountain is the Rock a Little demo. It's so powerful. But I couldn't see that being made into a full song because as artsy and delicious as it is, it kind of meanders and would kind of drag an album down. Then again, Red Rover kind of did that on Say You Will and it's one of my favorite songs from that album. But I did notice something. The line from Moonlight "they dropped to the forest floor... frozen" did you guys notice it has the same feeling as when she repeats "burning out" at the end of LFTM. So it's not really just a matter of adding new parts to an older song, it really is like the original song grew up and matured a bit. But the feeling and meaning is still there. It's like looking at a portrait of an old woman and seeing the eyes of the young girl she once was, and in a lot of ways still is. You can look fondly at the photos of the young girl but you can love the woman she's become.

Yah I said it before and I read it also, Moonlight is really the finalization of a song that took 35 years to GET IT RIGHT (or just finished if you are a hater). It was great for the Rock A Little Demo, but not quite DONE. I would say this is the BEST we can hope for. Her voice has never been closer to how it sounded in the RAL demo and until someone invents a time machine and forces 1986 SN to record the completed version of LFTM this is all we are gonna ever get.