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I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
'Til the landslide brought it down
Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
?
Well, I've been afraid of changin'
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too
And I'm getting older too
Oh, take my love, take it down
Climb a mountain and turn around
And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down
And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down
The landslide will bring it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
'Til the landslide brought it down
Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
?
Well, I've been afraid of changin'
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too
And I'm getting older too
Oh, take my love, take it down
Climb a mountain and turn around
And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down
And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down
The landslide will bring it down
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This song can be applied to every single aspect of life in every degree. Simply put it is about change and realization. One's realizations causes change. This song is heavily constructed around the saying, "What comes up must come down." EX:
"I took my love, I took it down
I climbed a mountain, I turned around"
No matter who you fall in love with or how long a relationship lasts it ends the same way it started with you being alone but this time with either from breaking up, or dying. This is the "landslide" because when anything ends it leaves you with negative effects, falling in love will eventually break your heart or you might break some one else's again from ending a relationship or dying. The mountain is symbolic for passion and purpose: the things we aspire to be and become eventually stops and falls apart. Someone's life goal could be climbing a mountain, but once when they do it, it's over you've done it, the mountain isn't going to get any taller. Or you could climb every mountain in the entire world but then you have none left to climb any more leaving you empty with nothing left to do. But you could just keep climbing it over and over because it means so much to you, but every time you climb it you have to come back down. This concept can be applied to everything we do. This of course is a very, very dark, depressing realization and leaves you questioning your purpose and existence because you've just realized that there is no point to anything in life and no matter how hard you try to change it or continue doing it the "landslide will bring you down." The line:
"Can the child within my heart rise above?" &
"Time makes you bolder,
Even children get older,
And I'm getting older too"
This means that you can try to forget this realization from the "child within your heart" since children are gullible and ignorant because they don't know much. But eventually that child within your heart will grow old with you too and you'll never be able to forget. Another point:
"Well, I've been afraid of changin'
'Cause I've built my life around you"
This means that even though after you've made this realization you don't want it end or face fact because whatever you're applying this concept to truly means everything to you like an Olympic runner, a president, a bodybuilder, a famous artist... anyone. You've realized that everything is doomed from the start and yet you still try to hold on, until the landslide brings you down. The last lines of the song:
"And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down"
This is the most depressing part of the song because it deals with lasting impressions. What I mean by this is that famous people, people who's name will "live" in history like Abraham Lincoln, Einstein, Picasso etc. not even they will "live" forever because eventually with time, there will be a point where everyone has forgotten about them, hence the landslide covering someone's reflection.
'I took my love, I took it down' - she took some cocaine, something she describes as her 'love', which shows how into it she was.
'I climbed a mountain...' - she felt the rush
..'and turned around' - the pivotal moment. Literally turned around at some point and...
'saw her reflection in the snow covered hills' - meaning she caught her reflection in a dressing table mirror (the mirror in the context of the song means truth) along with all the mounds of coke on her table i.e. the 'snow covered hills'.
Presumably she looks old and rough and haggard.
The 'landslide' is both the come down from the coke AND the disappointment and shame at how fucked up she is. It hits her doubly hard, hence why it's not just a come down but a landslide. The landslide brings her right down from the mountain mentioned earlier.
She then asks 'the mirror in the sky', i.e. the truth in the sky, God, what love actually is, having realised that what previously made her feel good (coke) has actually ruined her.
She then contemplates whether she has the goodness (the child in her heart) to get through it, the strength to overcome the negativity in her life ('the ocean tide') and the resources to deal with the external things going on around her (the seasons in her life, which are presumably fame, adultery, excess, drugs, basically all that was going on with fleetwood mac at the time).
I think personally, her attention moves to why she is in the state she is. She attributes it to being scared of leaving lindsey buckingham (who she built her life around). She was afraid of the consequences of NOT going down the route the other band members were. Mainly, isolation from this man who she's built her life around. She probably felt like she couldn't live without Lindsey.
Then I think she realises the only way out of her current predicament is to become more independent, primarily of Lindsey. She realises that it's a make or break moment in her life.
I'm not sure who the last bit is directed at. It's a bit ambiguous. Any ideas?
the moment realizing that you've become someone else. you're NOT the same little kid you used to be.
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