Landslide

Nicks has said that she wrote this song while she was contemplating going back to school or continuing on with guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. Buckingham and Nicks had been dropped by Polydor Records and she and Buckingham were not getting along. She wrote the song while visiting Aspen, Colorado sitting in someone's living room "looking out at the Rocky Mountains pondering the avalanche of everything that had come crashing down on us...at that moment, my life truly felt like a landslide in many ways."

She sees her life as a landslide and that it is uncontrollable and changes suddenly coming down. But I don't think that is meant to necessarily be a bad thing. She sees herself in the mountains as she climbs to the peak and then there is nowhere to go but down again. She often dedicates the song to her father so that might be the "mirror in the sky" that she still feels like she may need guidance from him and that she her life is still connected to him. Even though she can't see him she find him in herself as he watches her climb and fall.