"Will You Ever Win!"

[seekerj]

I've been trying to figure this out for years. The original piano demos from 1974 have all the lyrics, even "taken by the sky" and "would you even try". Then on the album version, there's only "will you ever win". But the live performances after the white album was released have the lyrics back to "sky... would you even try".

So it's not like she changed the song after it was recorded for the album; those words already existed. It's more like she changed the lyrics just specifically for the album.

Then, the "taken by, taken by the sky (times three)" just before Lindsey's guitar solo was there until the Mirage tour. Then on that tour, it was replaced with "Dreams unwind, love's a state of mind" (times three), and then, after the Mirage tour, any lyrics at all in that "spot" just completely disappeared.

If I could ask her one question, it would be "what's the story with the Rhiannon lyric changes... did they not let you use all the words? Was that a band decision, or was it yours?"