| Fleetwood Mac – Gypsy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is beyond amazing, and has an even deeper, greater meaning than anyone can imagine. I am a total Fleetwood/Stevie fan. and this song evokes emotion every time I hear it. The song is about soulmates. The "gypsy," is a spirit that roamed for eternity, thereby being a gypsy spirit, because it wandered like a nomad, never being born to human form. The first stanza describes how the body that held the gypsy spirit died (velvet underground/floor that I love/room with lace and paper flowers all describe being buried in a casket). Now that the physical body is dead, the gypsy spirit can roam free again. The beginning of the song describes the gypsy spirit's return to eternity--its body's physical death. In the rest of the song, the gypsy spirit in the song is saying that it roamed eternity and liked it that way, until lightning struck and it lit up the nights...that is, another spirit came along and gave the gypsy a reason to be born. The gypsy spirit is saying that in all eternity, finding another soul that lights up the endless night of limbo only happens once, maybe twice, then it vanishes forever. So the gypsy spirit, so accustomed to, and in love with its freedom, is reborn to a physical life in order to be that other spirit's soulmate on earth. Notice that the gypsy spirit is saying that "if I was a child/and a child was enough/enough for me to love/enough.." meaning that the gypsy's soulmate is atill alive on earth, but the gypsy spirit will not be reborn again because it would have to start out as a child, a baby, and the gypsy would be limited in loving its soulmate. So instead, the gypsy faces freedom (reentering infinity), with a little fear, where fear never existed before it was born to human form. The gypsy is afraid to enter eternity without its soulmate, yet knows that going back to earth as a baby and not being able to love its soulmate the way it intended would be far worse than wandering the endless night of eternity. There is twinge of sadness, and resign, yet a bittersweet happiness--the song was written so beautifully, it captures the emotions of powerful love and joy of finding that one person that lights up the nights, that strikes you with a thunderbolt, and the sadness that results when that loss is felt--but what makes the song so extraordinary is that it tells the story from the other side of the universe--when we lose a loved one, this is what emotions they are feeling in eternity. Stevie weaves this story with such flawless grace that is resounding and infinite. Truly a musical masterpiece. |
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