| Stevie Nicks – Ghosts Are Gone Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Working partly on an interview Stevie Nicks did with Jim Ladd, she described this song as being about "a relationship that was just done," like "I don't need a card at Christmas," or "if I see you walking on the street, I will absolutely cross the street to get as far away from you as I can." To me, the "ghosts" are either a specific person with whom you had a negative relationship (which would fit Nicks's stated meaning) or doubts in your mind being left behind, or leaving a specific place -- physical or emotional -- behind. |
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| Stevie Nicks – Fall From Grace Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Stevie Nicks has said this song is about Fleetwood Mac and how crazy everything is when they tour. To me, the first verse is about Mick Fleetwood, not Lindsey Buckingham. She had to try to keep her affair with Fleetwood a secret because she was already in a tenuous situation working with her ex-boyfriend in a band/dysfunctional family. The last line leading to the first chorus is almost a warning, both to Fleetwood and herself: "You could easily wake up with a stranger." As for that first chorus, she realizes that her dalliances for a fleeting moment of gratification could all fall apart on her, hence her "one night in a world of pain." She also realizes that if her affair's found out, "not all the king's horses, not all the king's men could put it back together." In the second verse, she seemingly turns her eye toward Christine McVie with the line, "You say you wouldn't do this for very long," almost suggesting that Christine has a subtle longing for approval by adding, "the applause from it all is so defining." She references herself by saying, "high priestess, she's the keeper of the peace in this," harkening back to her comment on Fleetwood Mac's Behind The Music episode that she was the peacekeeper in the band. She also realizes that the vagaries of success are a powerful drug in themselves by singing, "what people will do to get this high." She again refers to herself when she realizes she's "alone in my room as it all begins again," by realizing how intense she and her emotions are, "was I so wrong, why am I always so intense." She likely refers to Buckingham's abrupt 1987 departure from Fleetwood Mac, but she could also refer to Christine McVie's 1998 retirement when she says, "well I came all the way here just to watch you walk out that door!" She realizes at one point that fame -- or someone -- isn't all they're cracked up to be, hence her lines, "I didn't ask when you shook your head/I always accepted what you said as the truth/And the truth only." She turns her eye back to Buckingham, now assured of her own success as a solo artist and her place in Fleetwood Mac and all but snarls, "well it's not enough that you depend on me and it's not enough that you say you love me/it's not enough to just save face." Even so, she could also be thinking from Buckingham's perspective just a little bit and almost directing that line at herself. "Because sometimes, you just fall from grace." Nicks realizes, as she's said before "you could be the darling one minute and you could be nobody the next." And she realizes it could be her fault or nobody's fault. In the final coda, Nicks seemingly saves her parting shot for the doctor who prescribed Klonopin. "Maybe I am calmer now/Maybe things are fine/Maybe I made the whole thing up/Maybe that isn't a lie." But also, maybe she needs to be in that intense place to be the kind of rock star she wants to be. "Maybe the reason I say these things is to bring you back alive," could be a reference to someone -- Buckingham? staging an intervention with her -- or her staging one for Fleetwood to get him to kick his drug habit. "Maybe I fought this long and this hard just to make sure you survive." To me, that's directing it at herself -- she had a long, hard fight to make sure she survived her drug addictions. |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Destiny Rules Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me, this song is all about Stevie Nicks and her relationship with Lindsey Buckingham. She harkens to the past with the first line, "maybe we were together in another life," suggesting that her and Lindsey's heady early days in Fleetwood Mac were almost a lifetime ago. She also acknowledges the thought some people have that she and Lindsey are still together with, "maybe we are together in a parallel universe." She realizes that she can't have Lindsey and she also realizes that he'll always play an important role in her life: "I hear about you now and then/I wonder where you are and how you feel." She wonders how real her connection is with Lindsey and she wants that connection to remain -- somehow: "Sometimes I walk by and I look up to your balcony/Just to make sure that you were real/Just to make sure that I can still feel you." In the chorus, she once again tries to make peace with the fact she can never have Lindsey and she realizes that destiny doesn't allow them to be a couple. However, destiny also doesn't allow them to stay separated from each other for very long. In the second verse, she could be referring to how crazy life with Fleetwood Mac is by referring to being in a foreign country and "how the time flew." The line, "I didn't speak the language, but somehow I knew" is loaded with meaning -- perhaps she realizes that some things are better left unsaid, or that some things just didn't need to be spoken, they're just understood. Her reference to "Illume (9/11)" is one of the intriguing elements of "Destiny Rules." This time, she's not referring in some way to the calamity at the World Trade Center. This time, it's more of a self-examination of the near-calamities in her life, a way of trying to restore some normalcy to a woman used to the crazy rock 'n' roll lifestyle. |
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