What that song is saying is that I really don't have the freedom to have an affair. If I was going to have an affair, if I went into a bar and saw some woman in the bar and I was thinking, well, you know...my wife's miles and miles away, could just do this, you know. But I really can't do that, I mean I can't do it... period, because you know. I don't have that anonymous thing, there's too... that's part of what those lyrics are about, you know.
Neil Young
BBC Radio Interview with Richard Skinner
Broken Arrow #49 transcription
December 10, 1989