| Joni Mitchell – Furry Sings The Blues Lyrics | 25 days ago |
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"When Mitchell released her Hejira album in 1976 with the song Furry Sings the Blues, he hated the song and “that woman,” as he would put it that sang it. From what I understand, the song was inspired by this meeting, but mostly it was a commentary of the existing landscape of Beale Street which was getting very run down by that time in the seventies. The song paints a bleak picture of the current state of affairs on Beale Street as she recalled when she was there. The song was more about that mood than anything else. She only mentioned his name and a few aspects, but the song was never totally about him… However, many people close to Furry would disagree. Furry thought he should have received some kind of a royalty for singing about him." https://thebluesblogger.com/71/beale-street-furry-sings-the-blues |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Landslide Lyrics | 1 month ago |
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I've found this: "More specifically, the track details Stevie’s decision to put everything on the line to strike out with Lindsay Buckingham in pursuit of a successful music career." And here is Stevie's own comment: “I decided, when I was writing that song, to give the music and Lindsay one more chance, and that’s what that song is about.” All this I got from this site :D : https://www.rocksoffmag.com/stevie-nicks-describes-meaning-of-landslide/ |
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| Stevie Nicks – New Orleans Lyrics | 1 month ago |
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About the Song Stevie wrote “New Orleans” about the famous city and Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and its surrounding areas in 2005. “It’s about New Orleans. It’s about Hurricane Katrina…your worst nightmare,” Stevie said in the In Your Dreams documentary. “I was horrified. So I immediately started writing my poem. I had to be very careful as a songwriter. I was conflicted on how much I could say. Yes, you have to say, ‘We may never forgive you, Government of the United States, for not coming to our aid. But we are a flamboyant city, and we are a city of music, so we will come back.’” https://stevienicks.info/music/stevie-nicks-in-your-dreams-2011/new-orleans/ |
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| Stevie Nicks – Soldier's Angel Lyrics | 1 month ago |
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About the Song “Soldier’s Angel” reflects on Stevie’s visits to the Bethesda Naval Hospital and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2005, Stevie made regular visits the medical center, meeting with recovering military service members, bringing them iPods packed with music, and most importantly, listening to their personal stories. In 2006, Stevie founded the Stevie Nicks Soldier’s Angel Foundation in their honor, with proceeds benefiting their recovery efforts. Lindsey Buckingham sings and plays guitar on the track. Stevie has been a long-time supporter of U.S. service members. In 1991, she wrote the song “Desert Angel” (from Timespace) for the U.S. men and women who served in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. Sunflower Painting from ‘A Lady in Ukraine’ In 2022, Stevie received a special birthday gift from a Ukrainian woman named Julia. She wrote the following letter about the gift, which she read at shows during the 2022 tour. “The next song was written 14 years ago. Sadly, I always knew it would be called back into service at some point in my life. Sometimes it’s easier to say how you feel in music and in pictures. I’ll let the song and the video tell the rest of the story. The sunflower painting was a birthday present for me from a lady in Ukraine. Her name is Julia. This is for Julia. This is ‘Soldier’s Angel.’“ When Russian invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Stevie joined the humanitarian aid effort to assist the Ukrainian people, or UN Crisis Relief. Its website and QR code appeared at the end of the special “Soldier’s Angel” video, which played during “Soldier’s Angel” at the 2022 shows. https://stevienicks.info/music/stevie-nicks-in-your-dreams-2011/soliders-angel/ |
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| Stevie Nicks – Italian Summer Lyrics | 1 month ago |
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About the Song “Italian Summer” is inspired by Stevie’s trip to the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy. Some footage of this trip was included in the In Your Dreams documentary (2013). “You can be walking down the street, and see someone that catches your eye, and say, ‘Gosh! That was a gorgeous man,’ and something touches you, and you might go home and write a poem about that, you know? Or you go to Italy, which I did on the Fleetwood Mac tour (in 2009). I was there for four weeks, and I wrote the song ‘Italian Summer,’ and it sounds like I wrote it about a big love affair, but I didn’t. I wrote it about Italy, walking around on the cobblestone streets and feeling free and feeling safe. So you can be inspired by anything.” (Riff City, 2011) https://stevienicks.info/music/stevie-nicks-in-your-dreams-2011/italian-summer/ |
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| Joni Mitchell – Face Lift Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| That's what I've found about this song: "Another chapter of her life apparently inspired "Face Lift," which involves a mother and daughter trying to square their irreconcilable views of sexuality". And I got it from this site: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/09/30/riled-woman/bc8afbd3-7687-4652-bc49-8b592e085ab9/ | |
| Stevie Nicks – Listen to the Rain Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| Whether this song is directed to lover, friend or somebody else, the lyrics tells about supporting and a kind of philosophy what to do to make yourself feel better. At least the words seem straightforward and easy to interpret. | |
| Stevie Nicks – Gold and Braid Lyrics | 2 months ago |
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Another song about complicated relationships between people and how we can be under somebody's thumb (and that can be even a person we are close to). And here she's singing about Lindsey Buckingham and his treatment towards her: “Gold and Braid” is about Stevie’s relationship with guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. “‘Gold And Braid,’ another song on Enchanted, is an unreleased track from my Bella Donna solo debut sessions, and it’s about Lindsey wanting more from me in our relationship. But wanting to know everything about someone, which goes hand in hand with being in love, was never something I’ve ever wanted to share with anybody. Professionally, everybody always wanted me to be their idea of what I should be. I’d flat-out look at people and say, ‘You know I’m not gonna do what you want, so why do you bother?” (White, 1998). |
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| Stevie Nicks – How Still My Love Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| Damn, what a sexy song :D Stevie has said that some pair doesn't need to be in love to make a love. Sex means freedom and brings you fun and that's what matters sometimes :D That's what this lyrics is exactly about. | |
| Stevie Nicks – Think About It Lyrics | 2 months ago |
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Stevie wrote this song for Christine McVie but also for herself. And this is about a decision to stay in Fleetwood Mac whether struggles like breake-ups, unfriendly situation within the band etc. etc. But another reason why Christine wanted to leave were roadies and tours that she was fed up with. It all lead Nicks to write a song to make her stay. I think this is the only song on her "Bella Donna" LP that shows the good side of show business/ music career because it's a place that can give you joy and happiness. But here are (I think) all Stevie's comments about that :D : ............................................................................................................................................ I wrote that for Chris when she and John were really seriously getting divorced... on the road, which was one of your larger, unpleasant times. And Lindsey and I were sort of the same thing, except that you know, when somebody else is going through it, too... one person gets strong and the other person gets weak. So you know, Chris and I would be constantly be like, 'Okay, I'm gonna be strong now and you can fall apart, and then she'll be strong and I'll fall apart.' And that was on a particular time when she was falling apart and I was being strong. I didn't want her to quit. And so I was trying in my little philosophic way to give her some strength and hold her up a little bit. You know, people are asking me about these dedications and I just really wanted everybody to know that I wrote that for my friend, Chris... when she was sad. - 1981 ............................................................................................................................................ I wrote Think About It in 1975 for Chris [McVie] and for myself, too... I wrote it for her because I needed to write it for somebody else. She was going through her divorce with John, and in those days there were no wardrobe mistresses or speech therapists or anything, there was just me and Chris. So all she had, really, was me. And so I really had to be her friend and really be strong beside her at that point because she was really going to leave. And I had had my problems with Lindsey and *I* was really going to leave. And so this was just a song to remind her and remind me at the same time that we were giving up a lot if we left. And that it was really something that should be taken to the heart and thought about heavily before we walked out. - WLIR New York interview, 1981 ............................................................................................................................................ This particular song was written because Christine and John were breaking up. And she was very upset. And this was in the very beginning of Fleetwood Mac, and we had no wardrobe mistresses, no makeup artists... it was just us. And so she and I just had eachother to lean on. All over the country, alone. And so I was really her backbone for a few weeks in that period of time. Oh, and it turned around many times... but that was when I wrote that song. I didn't want her to leave, you know? And I was telling myself 'don't leave,' too. We knew... I mean, 'what are you going to do, Chris, what am I going to do? Work in a restaurant?' It's ridiculous. We can't give all this up... the music is fabulous, we can't just give it up because our men are messing up our lives. - WMMR Pennsylvania interview, 1981 |
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| Joni Mitchell – Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| I am here again and I've found what this song is exactly about: "Joni Mitchell has always been a traveler. From Song to a Seagull to Hejira, she consistently chooses freedom and a life on the move over settling down into domesticity - though the choice is never an easy one to make. On Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, she tackles the idea of home head on, utilizing experimental musical techniques and imagistic, stream-of-conscious lyrics to delve into what she feels is her home - as the place she lives in, the world she comes from, and the parts of herself that she cannot escape - and the ways in which "belonging to her home" is a complicated and challenging notion for her to make peace with." And I got it from this site: https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=4998. But actually it is about the all songs from "Don Juan (...)" so you can read it if you're interested :D. | |
| The Beatles – Girl Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| @[sinnedoh:49714] Hello? Maybe sometimes it's worth to read some information about some song and not try to act like an expert XD. In fact "Girl" has double meaning but Lennon clearly stated in one Interview that the point of that song is Christianity. | |
| The Beatles – Girl Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| @[Briocc:49713] Oh dear do you realize what kind of fool you made of yourself? This song is about being in love with a girl? Are you sure? It's about CHRISTIANITY. Somebody even stated that a few years before you. | |
| Stevie Nicks – One More Big Time Rock and Roll Star Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| What's the matter? XD This lyrics comes from the song "The Nightbird" and it is about her girlfriend Robin Anderson that died and the whole song runs the death issues and woman's struggles in rock and roll world. But if we talk about "One More Big Time Rock and Roll Star" I have read it is rather about Joe Walsh and the rest of the song is again about many kinds of difficulties in show business. Well, many people think Nicks is stuck in romance songs but that's false thinking. I'd rather say her prime topics are for example show business and many different kinds of relationships, not only those romantic. Personally I like her songs about friendship, her family and Fleetwood Mac. | |
| Stevie Nicks – For What It's Worth Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| @kaydelongp Allright sorry for being the bitchy, actually we both have the right - I have just learned that Stevie said that this song is both about Tom and that Dallas and she wrote this lyrics as a big "thank you" to them because those two supported her the most during her rehab time and helped her to cope with her life again as well. | |
| Stevie Nicks – Love Changes Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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“Love Changes” chronicles some of the negative vibrations within Fleetwood Mac: "If you take out all the bad stuff in the band, the songs wouldn't happen," she explains. "The thing is, you have to have trouble in Shangri-La." |
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| Fleetwood Mac – When I See You Again Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| Just like "Welcome to The Room Sara" this song is about her rehab at Betty Ford Clinic and it was going to be the final track on the album but they found it too depressing and that's why "You and I Part II" is at the end. | |
| Stevie Nicks – Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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marquicerise did a great job by posting all Stevie's comments about this song. But I have recently read an Interview with Nicks in which she's revealing some new things about this track: Reporter: There’s a moving story behind Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You? from 1985’s Rock A Little. You’d driven to the mountains with The Eagles’ Joe Walsh, and he showed you the silver fountain he’d built in memory of the three-year-old daughter he lost… Stevie Nicks: Yes, [it] was written for Joe and Emma Kristen. The drive was in Boulder, Colorado. I was having a hard time and Joe was opening for me, but I soon realised how little I had to complain about. We made the trip there and he told me the whole story about how Emma had been killed by a drunk driver on the way to nursery school. Joe had been married to a woman named Stephanie, but they couldn’t survive what had happened and broke up. My song was for Stephanie, too, I think. It was for all of us. It was about the whole tragic story and how the insidious stupidity of some drunk asshole driving into a Porsche tore so many lives apart. ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ And this part of Interview comes from this site: https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories/stevie-nicks-interviewed/ Personally I recommend this one - great Intreview :D |
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| Stevie Nicks – Sable On Blond Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| This song is actually about three threads. The first one is about how Nicks felt horrible in her new house because it was so depressing. She had no furnitures or even phone and she felt like a hermit: "Learn to be a starnger/ Blonde on blonde" - Stevie's blonde and it means "learn to be with yourself". Later she's singin about Robin - she's that "falling leaf". Falling leaf is an idea that Stevie got from one of the paintings from Sulamith Wülfing and in fact Robin was the reason why she wrote that song. And later she's singing about Jimmy Iovine, her then-boyfriend and how she felt that their relationship was going to an end. She wished Jimmy came and was with her then. | |
| Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| @[marquicerise:48990] Yes, that's right. That's what she has been always talking about this song. But in addition to that she has recently said that "Bella Donna" includes also a little thread about some woman from Chile (the mother of her then-boyfriend) who lost his beloved man because of dictatorship :/ Stevie's songs can be really about everything :D | |
| Fleetwood Mac – Fireflies Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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@[bingoboy:48828] Gee I need to reply again because I was wrong informed about the meaning of "The Chain" then. So yes, "The Chain" was created as a song about the band too - that's what Chris McVie said and that's what also Stevie said. But Nicks also admitted that she's singing in it about her breake up with Lindlsey too but in general "The Chain" was written about FM and that they will never get apart in spite of many problems. Stevie was the only one who truely wanted to keep the band together and that's why she was having on mind all the band members during writing this song. In fact Stevie has many songs about FM but "The Chain", "Fireflies" and "The Battle of The Dragon" are the most famous ones. |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Angel (Nicks) Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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Here are all Stevie's comments about "Angel": Stevie: “A song about Mick. Not so much my love affair with him. I was always taken with his style, and in those days he would walk in the room and I would just look up. ‘I still look up when you walk in the room… I try not to reach out.’ It’s all about him and his crazy fob watch and his really beautiful clothes. He’s a very stylish individual and I was just this little California girl who’d never really known anybody like him.” https://stevienicks.info/music/fleetwood-mac-tusk-1979/angel/ ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ And on another site I have found the rest of her comments in which she's explaining that this song is in general a kind of continuation of "Rhiannon" but in this case it's based on real mythology of that Goddess. She's also suggesting that some lines are about Fleetwood Mac and how they all enjoy performing: [On Angel] I wanted to write a rock 'n' roll song. And so it started out being much sillier than it came out . It didn't end up being silly at all. It ended up being very serious actually. But when I started it I was just ~ I thought this is good for me since I write so many like intense, serious, dark songs that I wanted to write something that was up but...and it starts out that way and it is up but there is a definite eerieness that goes through that song that I didn't even know was there, until just the other night ~ when you were filming that. ~ Stevie Nicks, Tusk Documentary, 1980 [On the line 'So I close my eyes softly/Till I become that part of the wind'] That's from uh, the story of Rhiannon... there's a man, in the story of Rhiannon and his name is Arawn... who is the great lord of darkness ~ who is the man who possesses the power to take or give life, but he only takes life... because of pain. And so I wrote something at some point... because Aaron is my father's name, and Aaron is also my brother's name. And Aaron is also my grandfather's name. So Arawn is many things to me. And it says, 'So I close my eyes softly/Till I become that part of the wind that we all long for sometime.' And so Arawn touched the twins with his hand so that they would sleep. And in that sleep there will be no pain. And in that nonexistence of pain there will be happiness. Because it was only given with great love. And this was in a haunted song, and a charmed hour, and this was the angel... of my dreams. ~Stevie Nicks, Jim Ladd Innerview, 1979 [On what the definition of a "charmed hour" is] The best hour. The best of all your life....It always will remain in your memory and always ring through your dreams, and be there when any people hurt you or bring you down, or you suffer, maybe. That haunted song will be there for you, because that's the Birds of Rhiannon. And that's what that was written about, is the Three Birds of Rhiannon, which always are there if you need them. And you may black out ~ and that's what they do ~ they just take the pain from you, and you wake up and it's all right. And that's the haunted song of Rhiannon... you have to know the story. ~Stevie Nicks, Jim Ladd Innerview, 1979 Angel is a song that I love doing on stage because it makes me feel like an old-time dancehall girl. I love it. I love it. ~Stevie Nicks, Tusk Documentary, 1980 [On whether Angel is an example of her love for Fleetwood Mac] Oh yeah. 'I still look up.' That goes out on stage now. The uh 'I knew you would.' It's like, we all knew we would. Nobody questions that. ~Stevie Nicks, Jim Ladd Innerview, 1979 http://www.inherownwords.com/angel.htm ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ And the other sources say that this song refers also to Nicks's family - her father, brother and grandfather because their names were Aaron (those were their second names or something like that) and Aaron also apears in the mythology of Rhiannon. But that's what she's also saying in those comments above. Another Nicks's song that includes many different threads. |
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| Stevie Nicks – Smile At You Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| @BlueCrystalMirror OMG ... You all really think that almost every song of hers is about Buckingham? Do you ever try to find some information on Internet or check the Interviews with her? "Smile At You", though was written about "Rumours" time, is about Nicks accepting the fact that her then-boyfriend - Don Henley, loves another woman. And that woman was Cher's sister, Georganne LaPiere. | |
| Joni Mitchell – Trouble Child Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| @[MagicoCowgirl:48784] You're right. That's what I have also read. And as I remember she's singing in it about the time when she suffered polio. | |
| Stevie Nicks – Thousand Days Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| This song is about her complicated friendship with Prince. Just like Joe Walsch he didn't like her crazy rock and roll lifestyle and that's why he didn't want to be her mate anymore. But it was also because he wanted to be her boyfriend but Nicks wanted only to stay friends with him or work with him together in music business. | |
| Fleetwood Mac – That's Alright Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| I have never found Stevie's comments about this one but I think that this song is like an early version of "Landslide". But while in "Landslide" she's singing that she decides to give both music and Lindsley second chance, in "That's Alright" she's singing that she wants to give up it all. But these are only my speculations. | |
| Fleetwood Mac – Sisters of the Moon Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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That's what I have just found at some Nick's site: About the Song About: A bad mood A lyrically enigmatic Stevie contribution, with a guitar solo by Lindsey that’s reminiscent of “The Chain,” this was a surprise addition to the set on the band’s spectacularly successful 2014/15 reunion tour. Stevie: “I honestly don’t know what the hell this song is about. I’ve been singing it on tour for the last two and a half years, and every time I’m thinking, What the hell is that? I think it was me putting up an alter ego or something, the dark lady in the corner, and there’s a Gemini twin thing. It wasn’t a love song; it wasn’t written about a man, or anything precious. It was just about a feeling I might have had over a couple days, going inward in my gnarly trollness. Makes no sense. Perfect for this record!” But in another Interview she said that this song is also about the situation when she looked in the mirror and spotted herself as a very thin and almost dying person, here's a part of her comment: “I walked out in front of a mirror and looked at myself,” Nicks said during a 1979 radio interview with Jim Ladd. “And I was sick. I went, ‘Oh, poor sad little thing. She must be dying.'” Yeah, her both bad physical and mental conditions were because of hardship of touring and she even didn't sleep and eat much. |
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| Stevie Nicks – In Your Dreams Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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It was so hard to find some real and reasonable information about this song but it was worthwhile. So I have read that Stevie wrote this song for her step-son Matthiew and her husband Kim Anderson. And she wrote it when she'd realized that there is no sense to carry on this marriage (as she said in many Interviews - she was well-minded wanting to become Matthiew's mother but in spite of it marrying Kim was a big mistake). But as it is stated in the song: she will always be in their dreams and she will always be in their lives in some way. https://blog.sevenponds.com/expressive-music/in-your-dreams-by-stevie-nicks |
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| Stevie Nicks – Alice Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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Stevie has never said (at least I have never heard her saying or haven't read nothing concrete) what this song is exactly about. But if you read her comments you can understand that the story of Alice is a referance to her dubble life. I mean life between Fleetwood Mac and her solo carieer and life between carieer and her personal life. Well, here's what she said: “Much of Alice in Stevie Nicks’ Alice is Stevie writing about Alice in parallel back to Stevie, so I’m really writing about Alice’s adventures as in comparison to my adventures,” she once explained. “For Alice to run back and forth between the looking glass is kind of what I perceive my whole life to be, running back and forth between two places — which is obviously my career with Fleetwood Mac and my career by myself. And then of course, there’s the other part of my life, which is my own life, which there isn’t very much of. But I always seem to be running to one place or the other.” https://www.rhino.com/article/deep-dive-stevie-nicks-the-other-side-of-the-mirror-0 |
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| Stevie Nicks – Destiny Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| I have read that Stevie wrote this song about the time when she and Lindsley (still as a duo then) failed in music industry again. Don't remember if it was the failure of their album Buckingham/Nicks or some concert that was promoting this album but this whole situation crashed and they were pissed and disappointed, especially Stevie. That's what Stevie said about this song and she said that story during her Street Angel Tour at one of the concerts. | |
| Stevie Nicks – Doing the Best I Can (Escape from Berlin) Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| I have read that this song is about demanding world of showbusiness - something similar to "Gold Dust Woman". But it is also about her drug abuse just like for example "Mabel Normand", "Kick It", "When I See You Again" or "Welcome to the Room Sara" (but I don't think she wrote all of those tracks about the same time). Let alone the political thread - well, The Berlin Wall that inspired Stevie when she was with Fleetwood Mac in Germany :D | |
| Stevie Nicks – Every Day Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| Oh dear ... Yeah it must have been very hard for you :/ I understand what you felt then because I was in similar situation :/ But in addition to that that guy brought his girlfriend to show me what kind of big loser I am. But now it's only past for me - as Stevie would say: "I can see past you to the white sand". | |
| Stevie Nicks – Every Day Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| @[whyanbeel:48625] But Stevie didn't write this song - "Producer John Shanks sent Stevie Nicks an envelope labeled “Every Day.” Inside was the demo for “Every Day,” a song which Shanks and songwriter Damon Johnson had written for Stevie to record. When Stevie walked past her office desk and saw the envelope, the title reminded her of Buddy Holly’s hit 1957 “Everyday.” From that connection, Stevie decided to record the song" - this can be found on Internet. | |
| Stevie Nicks – Sorcerer Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| @[Letmein:48623] Yeah, this song shares the topic of cocaine :D | |
| Stevie Nicks – Sorcerer Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| “’Sorcerer’ was written in 1974, a year before we (she and Lindsley) joined Fleetwood Mac,” Stevie remembers. “It was really about the city of Hollywood and how strange it was to us. It was all about models and rock ‘n’ roll and drugs and scary people. I was a very, very prudish little girl from San Francisco who had strict parents, I had not had a lot of freedom, and coming into this town was freaky. ‘All around the black ink darkness, and who found the lady from the mountains.’ The lady from the mountains was me” (Nicks, 2001). That's what she said in an Interview. Btw cool song. One of her best tracks from Trouble in Shangri La. | |
| Stevie Nicks – Hard Advice Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| It's about completely the same thing what she's singing in "That Made Me Stronger" - Petty telling her not to ask him to write her a song but to believe in herself again and start writing by herself. And if you read Nicks's comments or interviews you can know that to addition to that she's recalling also that he told her to forget about her past (Street Angel, Konopin etc.) and begin everything from the start. As she says - you have to let Tom go, which means you have to let him speak because he always gives good but hard advice. | |
| Stevie Nicks – Leather and Lace Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| Very romantic lyrics but I think this song is something more than just a love song especially when Wikipedia describes it as follows: "The song compares the male singer's rougher life, represented by leather, to the female singer's softer life, represented by lace, and how the opposites can attract". And here is also Stevie's comment "I wrote this song for a man and a woman in the music business that are trying to work out their problems together". It has definitely deeper meaning but for me it will always be only a love song because every time I listen to it, it reminds me of my brief affair with some guy that I had a big crush on :D. | |
| Stevie Nicks – Outside The Rain Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| It's about Mick Fleetwood. Lovely romantic song. | |
| Fleetwood Mac – Straight Back Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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Straight Back” is interpreted to be about the start of her solo career, characterized as “the dream.” The opening lyrics suggest her complicated relationship with Fleetwood Mac, compared here to the strategy of a card game, like poker. What can I say this time Which card shall I play “The dream is not over” seems to refer to Stevie feeling hopeful about her solo career after the success of Bella Donna; and “the dream is just away” and “you will fly like some little wing straight back to the sun” revealing Stevie’s intention to return to “the dream,” or her solo career, at some point. The second verse may allude to Stevie secretly writing songs on the piano for her second solo album, The Wild Heart (1983), during the 1982 Mirage recording sessions. “Like a wolf on the run,” Stevie had to be discreet and strategic about her solo career plans, so not to jeopardize her future with Fleetwood Mac. Fingers find the ivory keys And a song begins to begin Like a wolf on the run “The dream” also seems to represent independence, perhaps artistic freedom from Fleetwood Mac. Having written so many songs only to be unused or discarded during her formative years in Fleetwood Mac, Stevie may have temporarily lost sight of her goal to be an independent, prolific songwriter. And you will find while in the wind Something that you lost The dream was never over, no The dream was only lost Who Stevie is referring to in the bridge of the song is unclear. The implication seems to be Fleetwood Mac, and “how good it can be” when they are creating music together. She remembers how good it can be He remembers a melody He remembers how good it can be She remembers a melody This lyric is reminiscent of “come in out of the darkness” from “Bella Donna.” It could represent the spirit of shining through the darkness, gloom, or despair. In the shadow of my shadow in a gleam The following lyrics could be interpreted as Fleetwood Mac waiting “hours and hours” for Stevie to return to the band so they could start recording Mirage, despite “the dream” having just begun. “So strong and fleeting” might represent how quickly “the dream” — the tremendous success of Bella Donna — came and went. Hours and hours of waiting for you So strong and so fleeting The dream has just begun Hours and hours of waiting this way Meeting me That's what I found on some site :D And yeah, I have also heard her saying it is about her emotions for returning to Fleetwood Mac. |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Destiny Rules Lyrics | 8 months ago |
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Well, I am afraid you are all wrong here XD. I have just learned pretty interesting information about this song and I know it is not about her past relationships, especially not about Lindsley XD. First of all the verses: "I hear about you now and then I wonder where you are and how you feel Sometimes I walk by and I look up to your balcony Just to make sure that you were real Just to make sure that I can still feel you" - they are about Christine McVie and some strange situation with her at the balcony. And that's for sure because Nicks said about it in an Interview. The verses: "Maybe we were together (...)" but especially "Six weeks in foreign (...)" refers to her holiday in Chile where she was together with some friend with whom she had romantic relationship. So it is about both that time off and their affair. The verses: "I like the coastal cities (...)" are only about just her visit in Chile and how she liked being there and how she loves this kind of places in general. And the rest of the verses are about returning to Fleetwood Mac. Well, to be clear - she went to Chile in 1979 because she was tired after Tusk recording and her failed relationships with Lindlsey and Mick and the whole toxic situation that came again between the all five band members. Let alone it was enough for her that they didn't want to give more credit with her own songs that was also making her pissed. And that guy with whom she traveled to Chile added that she was also tired of the intense celebration and touring because of their success with album Rumours. But then she had to come back - not only because she had troubles in that country because of dictatorship (something unpleasant happened to her during some curfew) but as she always says - being in FM or just music business is like being in army whether you are needed or not etc. Her destiny is just to stay with Fleetwood Mac. She has to follow the rules and the rules say that you have to be with the band. |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Everybody Finds Out Lyrics | 8 months ago |
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Jujubee23 I have to disagree with you because I have just read that this song is about president Bill Clinton and his scandalous affair with Monica Lewinsky. And I have heard that this is also about Christine McVie that was about to leave FM. Neverless it's her another song about political issues. Here's the link to the netsite that proves this is mainly about Clinton and his assistant: https://twitter.com/hourlybn/status/1647963497886564361 |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Songbird Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| This song is very poetic and emotional. And Chris McVie wrote this song about her love for the band and that they are like her family and they will always be like her family no matter what troubles happen. The similar topic can be found in Nicks's songs like "The Chain" but first of all "Fireflies". They both wanted to keep the band together. | |
| Stevie Nicks – Silver Springs Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| "Silver Springs" is one of the reason I fell in love with Stevie Nicks. Beautiful lyrics. | |
| Fleetwood Mac – The Chain Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| @[stoolhardy:48442] I like The Beatles very much but Fleetwood Mac is closer to my heart :D For me they are another great and innovative band :D Lindsley's with his experiments ("Tusk" album was fresh and unique), Stevie with her witchy-gothic-passionate style both in music and lyrics and Chris with her cool voice and soft rock style that was also unique because it was Chris by herself. And I agree that this song is about the band - both Stevie and Chris said about it in an interview :D | |
| Fleetwood Mac – The Chain Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| @[rlschult:48441] Actually you're wrong. You must have confused this song with "I Don't Wanna Know" because that's that song which Nicks and Buckingham played before Fleetwood Mac. And "The Chain" was written during "Rumours" period. I have read that Stevie came up with it in a car and I think it was the same moment when she learned that "Silver Springs" would not be on an album. Later she played that song on guitar and cought Lindsley's attention. He asked her about the name of that song and if she agree to put it on the album. And this song is both about Lindsley and Fleetwood Mac. This second meaning is less popular but that's what Stevie (as well as even Christine) also say about this lyrics. | |
| Fleetwood Mac – The Chain Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| @[JoeIndiglo:48440] Yeah you're right. "The Chain" is also about the band. | |
| Fleetwood Mac – The Chain Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| This song wasn't written before Nicks and Buckingham joined the band - it was written during the Rumours time and she wrote it having her breake up with Lindlsey in the back of her mind. But in general this song is about Fleetwood Mac and how Nicks wanted to keep the band together whether their struggles (divorces, break up, arguments etc.). That's what Stevie said in an Interview and even Chris McVie admitted it is about the band. | |
| Stevie Nicks – Sweet Girl Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| Yeah I have also heard this is about Chris McVie. And I think Stevie wrote it when Chris was about to leave Fleetwood Mac and everybody knows that Nicks supported her in that decision. | |
| Fleetwood Mac – Silver Girl Lyrics | 8 months ago |
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That's what Nicks said about this song: “The first couple of lines are definitely about Sheryl. And when I thought about writing a whole song to this poem I had called "Silver Girl,” I thought, ‘Well, this whole song could be about Sheryl and also about all the rock and roll women, be they Norah Jones, Avril Lavigne, Michelle Branch, Stevie Nicks, Gwen Stefani, whoever.” “I wrote it about Sheryl Crow, someone who in many ways would have been much happier being part of that musical generation from 1965 to 1975. That song is sort of saying that it’s harder to hold onto your integrity today.” "That’s written about Sheryl Crow. In the song where it says, "She would have preferred the last generation,” Sheryl absolutely would’ve preferred to be my age and to have been in our generation and to have been in her own Fleetwood Mac, more than to be in this generation. We all love her and try to take her along with us because we know that. It was very fun when she came to record with Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey likes her a lot and Mick loves her and John loves her, and she’s one of our little adoptees. So the song is like an ode to the girl rock star, and ode to the question, “Is it possible to find somebody to love?” When you’re rich and famous, it’s very hard to find somebody. That’s not taking away the hope, but it is stating that it’s difficult. Well, another song that shows that Stevie can write about many different things, not only in one song, but in general. Great lyrics and great song. |
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| Stevie Nicks – Fall From Grace Lyrics | 8 months ago |
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Ok right. There are some speculations about this track so maybe I'll give Stevie's all comments about this song: "Fall From Grace is really about Fleetwood Mac onstage— that’s always mostly going to be about me and Lindsey, just about our energy and what a trip it is to be in Fleetwood Mac and walk up there onstage. It’s just, it’s grand, you know? It’s a very grand thing. It’s nothing like your solo career." "Six of the songs from Shangri-la were written on the road. Among them were Love Changes and Fall From Grace, both of which, Nicks says, are “pretty much about” the band itself." "“Fall from Grace,” I wrote on the Fleetwood Mac reunion tour. Because that’s a great place to write, when you’re on tour and everything’s going really well, it’s very exciting; it’s like a big date. You know, it’s like very romantic, very, and you know you’re traveling. And of course, when you’re in Fleetwood Mac it’s a very big deal, so you get the best of everything in Fleetwood Mac. When we go to my solo career, it’s a little cut down, it’s a little cut down. It’s a little discounted, you know. But the Fleetwood Mac thing is very big, so it’s a very fun place to write. And “Fall from Grace,” was really about um when, Lindsey and Mick and I go up on stage, and how, just how intense it is, you know. And how we do kinda feel like, you know, Queen Elisabeth, Prince Phillip, and Queen Edward, King Edward; oh man, he’s gonna kill me for Queen Edward. Um, it’s such a powerful thing, and when you get up there it’s just so magical and so strong. And so, somehow the poem for “Fall from Grace,” just came outta that." "Fall From Grace was a formal full-on poem…you know ‘maybe I worked this hard just to make sure you survive’…this was something.. and it doesn’t really matter, of course, I wrote that poem about Lindsey and Lindsey knows that and he doesn’t care. He loves being inspirational and he is and I am to him. So we laugh about that. So I write these really, really heavy poems. I think I wrote most of that when we were out on the road on The Dance." "Angry song. Probably my angriest song ever. But, it has…it’s angry like ‘don’t jump off that cliff, don’t be an idiot.’ But, at the same time it’s like ‘because I don’t want you to be hurt.’ [Interviewer’s blah, blah, blah] No, that song’s about Lindsey. Oh yeah. That’s after the Dance. I wrote that in 1998, 1998-99 that’s right after the Dance. [Interviewer: So, he still knows the buttons to push.] Oh yeah, definitely. And he tries not to push them so much now because I really don’t like it and I don’t want to be angry with him now. But he knows how to get to me. But, I’m only saving him in that song. [Stevie quotes song, forgetting some words] But it basically says, you know as angry as I am at you, I’m really only trying to help you. So at the end when it comes to the end it basically turns the whole thing around. Almost like he does on Never Going Back Again. when he says you know, “I”m never going back again” and blah blah blah but then he says ‘but come around and see me again.’ So Fall From Grace is kinda like that." So her comments show that it is about both Lindlsey and the band. But as Stevie also said - when she sings about Lindlsey she sings also about the band and when she sings about the band she sings also about Lindsley and the circle goes on - maybe not always (for example Fireflies are only about the band) but Fall From Grace prooves that that struggles between her and Lindlsey are also band's struggles (well it's certainly because of that that she and Lindsley were two "energy bosses" of FM, let alone they were ex lovers and then just bandmates that had different visions about the band's music etc.). |
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