Songfacts®:

• This is the opening track and title song of Graham Nash's sixth solo album. When the singer wrote the tunes for This Path Tonight, the breakup of his marriage to second wife Susan, mother of his three children, was weighing heavily on his mind. Despite this, Nash considers it to be a hopeful record. "That's why I started the album with 'Where are we going?,' because I don't know. I only know I'm on the right path. But I'm not a dark person," he told Billboard magazine. "I'm trying to be as positive as possible, and even though it looks bleak and it looks like I don't know where I'm going, there's light at the end of the tunnel."
• This Path Tonight was produced by former Lone Justice member and Bruce Springsteen sideman Shane Fontayne. Nash told Uncut about the collaboration: "Shane Fontayne and I shared a bus when we were touring around the world with CSN. I'd write a set of lyrics, I'd give them to him, and he would go into his bunk and the next morning there would be a song. Quite frankly, I was always a little uncomfortable writing with people, but not with Shane - for some reason it feels like I'm writing with myself."