Tori Amos covers this Neil Young song on her 2001 album Strange Little Girls. Like many Tori covers, her version of this song is completely rearranged and deconstructed. Different chords, different melody, totally different feel. If it didn't have the same lyrics it would probably be unrecognizable.
The original is plaintive but calm, a fitting accompaniment for the lyrics, which describe a meandering search for some elusive ideal partner. Acoustic guitar predominates, and there's some nice female backup vocals towards the end of the song.
Tori recasts the words, putting them into an unfamiliar musical context. There's voices screeching and wailing. There's guitars (electric this time) screeching and wailing. Driving drums. Lots of overdubs. The melody is repetitive, like a crazy litany. The effect is almost overwhelming, and not entirely pleasant to listen to. But the message is unmistakable. The quest for idealized love and the desire that drives it becomes a desperate, destructive force. The miner analogy comes to the forefront, digging, cutting into the ground, raping the earth. It becomes a song of violence and excess.
Neither version of the song is definitive.