Canyon Moon (song)

"**Canyon Moon"** is a song performed by Harry Styles. It serves as the tenth track from Harry's album, Fine Line.

## Background

In *Entertainment Weekly*’s review of *Fine Line*, they note the track’s connection with “the Laurel Canyon sound,” named after an area (and actual canyon) in Los Angeles which was home to a collection of rock musicians in the 1960s and 70s. For a period of time between May 2017 and June 2019, Harry even owned a property less than 5 miles away from Laurel Canyon.

## Music and composition

Harry Styles, via *Rolling Stone:*

> “I was in a pretty big Joni hole,” Style admits. Inspired by his Southern California surroundings — and his obsession with Joni Mitchell’s 1971 classic *Blue —*he tracked down Joellen Lapidus, the woman who built the dulcimer Mitchell plays throughout that album. Back in the day, Lapidus introduced Mitchell to the wonders of the mountain dulcimer; she took it backpacking around Europe and wrote some of her most classic songs on it. Styles and Tom Hull got their first lesson in the instrument from Lapidus herself, at her house in Culver City. He proudly calls this song “Crosby, Stills, and Nash on steroids.” When he played*Fine Line*for Stevie Nicks this summer, she picked this as her favorite — and as you may know, Stevie’s opinion means a lot to the young man she called “my little muse Harry Styles.”
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## Critical Reception

The A.V. Club opined:

> “And while Styles told *Rolling Stone* that “Canyon Moon” is “Crosby, Stills, and Nash on steroids”—a fair assessment, judging by the porch-jam acoustic guitar as well as the dulcimer—the standout “Golden” boasts echoes of the needling harmonies near the end of CSN’s “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” as well as any number of warm, AM Gold pop-rock hits.”
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## Lyrics

Gotta see it to believe it, sky never looked so blue

So hard to leave it, that's what I always do

So I keep thinking back to a time under the canyon moon

The world's happy waitin', door's yellow, broken blue

I heard Jenny saying, "Go get the kids from school"

And I keep thinking back to the time under the canyon moon

I've been gone too long from you

Staring at the ceiling, two weeks and I'll be home

Carry the feeling, through Paris all through Rome

And I'm still thinking back to the time under the canyon moon

I'm going, oh, I'm going

I'm going, oh, I'm going

I'm going, oh, I'm going home

I'm going, oh, I'm going

I'm going, oh, I'm going

I'm going, oh, I'm going home

Quick pause in conversation, she plays songs I've never heard

An old lover's hippie music, pretends not to know the words

And I keep thinking back to the time under the canyon moon

I've been gone too long from you

I'm going, oh, I'm going

I'm going, oh, I'm going

I'm going, oh, I'm going home

I'm going, oh, I'm going (Home)

I'm going, oh, I'm going (I'm going home)

I'm going, oh, I'm going home (Yeah)

I'm going, oh, I'm going (I'm going home)

I'm going, oh, I'm going (I'm going home)

I'm going, oh, I'm going home (Hey)

## Audio

### YouTube

Harry Styles - Canyon Moon (Official Audio)
## References

1. ↑ ew.com
2. ↑ laurelcanyonradio.com
3. ↑ cnbc.com
4. ↑ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/harry-styles-secrets-of-fine-line-926657/
5. ↑ https://www.avclub.com/with-fine-line-harry-styles-transforms-into-a-californ-1840463199