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I took my love, I took down
I climbed a mountain, I turned around
And I saw my reflection in a snow covered hill
'Til the landslide brought it down
Mirror in the sky, what is love
Can the child within my heart rise above
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides
Can I handle the seasons of my life, oh
Well, I've been afraid of changing
'Cause I've built my life around you
Time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older, too
Well, I've been afraid of changing
'Cause I've built my life around you
Time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older, too
I get older, too
Oh, I took my love and I took down
Oh, I climbed a mountain, I turned around
And if you see my reflection in a snow covered hill
The landslide brought it down
The landslide brought it down
Oh, oh, oh
I climbed a mountain, I turned around
And I saw my reflection in a snow covered hill
'Til the landslide brought it down
Mirror in the sky, what is love
Can the child within my heart rise above
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides
Can I handle the seasons of my life, oh
Well, I've been afraid of changing
'Cause I've built my life around you
Time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older, too
Well, I've been afraid of changing
'Cause I've built my life around you
Time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older, too
I get older, too
Oh, I took my love and I took down
Oh, I climbed a mountain, I turned around
And if you see my reflection in a snow covered hill
The landslide brought it down
The landslide brought it down
Oh, oh, oh
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Snow Covered Hill- Self explanitory. Its about being addicted to cocaine.
Now, whether because it's me or because so many of the songs I listen to have undertones of this, I can almost see this as a story of a life of love, a narrative even going from the beginning to the end. And while I know it's been said otherwise, I take this into a different view to satisfy myself.
At the beginning, the narrator climbs a mountain (figuratively) and turns around to see what he's gone through. Seeing his reflection is seeing what he's accomplished, and the "landslide", or a stormy part of his life/love hides that just like a landslide would hide a reflection in snow.
I picture the speaker turning back, away from the landslide, and into the sky to ask what love is. To basically ask if he can continue forward, higher than the mountain that he's climbed and ascend to a point where he doesn't need to climb any more mountains/work through the difficulties that love (especially at a young age) brings.
When he says that he's been afraid of changing, it's a recollection on the times that he's gone through, and how each time something changed (a relationship ending, for example) he was afraid to let it go to the past. He has already planned his life around the person he is with, and doesn't want to let it go. But time heals all wounds, as someone said in an earlier comment, and sooner he will become bolder and able to understand this more. Perhaps at the point he is now on top of this "mountain."
(As a side note, "Even children get older/and I'm gettin' older too" is perhaps one of the most memorable lines I've ever heard)
At the end he looks back to the reflection again, seeing all the rough times hide his reflections, the memories that are worth reflecting on, but he still looks back because a past can never leave, even if he were to move even higher than the figurative mountain.
This is just my interpretation, and even if Fleetwood Mac had a different meaning, this relates to me and that's what a song is meant to do, right? I love this song, I love this cover, and thanks if you read this. Heh.