This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Looking out for love
In the night so still
Oh, I'll build you a kingdom
In that house on the hill
Lookin' out for love
Big, big love
You said that you love me
And that you always will
Oh, you begged me to keep you
In that house on the hill
Lookin' out for love
Big, big love
I wake up
Alone with it all
I wake up
But only to fall
Lookin' out for love
Big, big love
Just lookin' out for love
Big, big love
In the night so still
Oh, I'll build you a kingdom
In that house on the hill
Lookin' out for love
Big, big love
You said that you love me
And that you always will
Oh, you begged me to keep you
In that house on the hill
Lookin' out for love
Big, big love
I wake up
Alone with it all
I wake up
But only to fall
Lookin' out for love
Big, big love
Just lookin' out for love
Big, big love
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Great version of a great song,
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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Its a great song - one of my favs - but demented too. I remember reading years ago (I think in Rolling Stone) about the bit where he wakes with it all, is actually him waking up with a hard on. He is alone of course and full of lust. I think this makes sense considering Tusk was a slang for the male member.
Buckingham's not singing about looking for love but looking out for love in order to protect himself against it.
"Oh you begged me to keep you. In that house on the hill" is point at which someone falls in love with him but he doesn't want it.
He's been taking to bad place by being in love previously and isn't ready to be hurt by that feeling again.
LIVE VERSION KICKS RECORDED VERSIONS ASS!!!!!
Buckingham is a God. He doesn't get enough credit for his skill. Self-taught and can't read music.
^I'm sorry. I can't agree with that. This was written 10 years after Rumors. Not EVERYTHING they wrote were songs about their failed relationship. Also, the female "love grunts" in the original recording were not done by stevie, they were also done by lindsey. He sped up the tape for that...
The video for this song is also great - it's one of the most visually striking ever done, IMO.
This songs has so much energy which is accentuated by Lindsay's fabulous guitar works & electronically modulated grunts & moans . And yes the video is spectacular !!
I remember when I was 6 or 7 and in the car with my dad, stepmum and stepsisters and my dad had this playing. At the time I had a female best friend called Charlotte I believe and I remember my stepsisters kept saying the background grumps were me and Charlotte going at it.
It took me 13 years to find out the name of the song and I love it.
Anybody else think it may be a good one to have in the background while going at it?
I need to learn this on guitar and if it's true about Buckingham unable to read music then WOW!!
Also: Though many assumed the female "ahh" to be Stevie Nicks, it was actually Lindsey Buckingham performing both, created by way of his voice being sampled and altered in the studio to mimic that of a woman. (From Wiki)
Such a great song.
for me... the meaning of the song is "PASSION" Stunning vocal performance from LB, studio as well as live