If Anyone Falls

Stevie says she wrote this song about Waddy Wachtel, her long time friend and lead guitarist. Waddy has also played for MANY huge acts in music as a session musician.

Obviously, their musical and personal friendship eventually turned into a romance..as many of hers do..and she wrote this song about him.

This is my favorite Stevie Nicks song. I love the shrillness in the chorus,the lyrics are typical of her. But how cheap is her house-the walls are so thin that you can hear people talking in the next room??!!

I think this is a sarcastic song, from the point of view of a woman who wants it to be understood that she is in love with him, but doesn't want to come out and say so. She wants her lover to say that he's in love with her, and is frustrated that his understanding of love is more nuanced and less unequivocal.

The rooms and doors in the first stanza are metaphorical – she's blaming him for staying in a separate "room" (or way of being), and of "closing the door" on their love.

When she sings "If anyone falls in love... somewhere in the back of your mind", the singer is sarcastically mocking her lover's words, remonstrating with him for being unable or unwilling to simply take it for granted that people fall in love. She wants him to see that she loves him (even if she won't say it), and is trying to pressure him to acknowledge that he already loves her.

In the end, she is basically saying that because he isn't saying/doing this, she won't fully let him into her heart ("So I'm never gonna see you... deep inside my heart").