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I believe that the reason Lover's Moon and NYM were not part of the regular set was because they were done for the acoustic MTV Unplugged, which is what HFO started out as....an MTV Unplugged. The songs were worked up to be done with the orchestra. Since they didn't have the orchestra with them on the road, it didn't make a lot of sense to do them as part of the tour.....and maybe they felt there were too many "slow" songs.
I agree about the slow songs aspect. The lack of an orchestra also undoubtedly informed their decisions to a degree. However, the lack of an orchestra on the road wasn't entirely prohibitive. As I'm sure you know, both songs had been played on the road before (Lover's Moon in Japan 1992 and NYM numerous times), it's not as if they didn't have ready-made road-tried arrangements. They chose not to use them because of the fact that the slow songs would drag things down, I believe. JMHO. :)