Wait a minute, baby
Stay with me awhile
Said you'd give me light
But you never told me 'bout the fire

Drowning in the sea of love
Where everyone would love to drown
But now it's gone
It doesn't matter what for
When you build your house
Then call me home

And he was just like a great dark wing
Within the wings of a storm
I think I had met my match, he was singing
And undoing, and undoing the laces
Undoing the laces

Said Sara, you're the poet in my heart
Never change, never stop
But now it's gone
It doesn't matter what for
But when you build your house
Then call me home

Hold on
The night is coming and the starling flew for days
I'll stay home at night, all the time
I'd go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere
Ask me and I'm there, yeah
Ask me and I'm there, I care

In the sea of love
Where everyone would love to drown
But now it's gone
They say it doesn't matter anymore
If you build your house
Then please call me home

Sara, you're the poet in my heart
Never change, and don't you ever stop
Now it's gone
No it doesn't matter anymore
When you build your house
I'll come by

Sara
Sara


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Sara Lyrics as written by Stevie Nicks

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    My Interpretation

    My mom and I listened to the song a lot, trying to think of what the song could be, and I turned up the song really loud in my room to hear the quiet parts (I never could hear them though...)

    The "All I ever wanted to know was that you were sleeping", was that someone important to the singer, a grown up person or a baby, died and the singer wished the person hadn't. Or it was a baby that died, or people thought the person or baby would die, but he/she didn't.

    Though at the end, I was really sad and cried because it seemed like the person or baby did die.

    The "never change, never stop", I thought was the singer telling someone that they were fine the way they were, and that person was a good person, but he/she changed a lot and so the singer thought that nothing mattered anymore.

    The "drowning in the sea of love" I think is like doing anything for someone you love, or loving someone enough to die for them but for some reason "it's gone", as if no one loves or cares anymore, maybe.

    I also really thought that the "build your house" part was about a mom talking to her child, telling her/him that even when they grew up she would always be around and would come visit, not in a prying parent sort of way, but a loving, supportive way.

    My name is Sarah, and my mom told me that she always thought of me when she listened to this song, and she told me not to change. I thought that I would keep being a good person and be kind to people.

    Anyway, that's just my thoughts and interpretation on the song!

    Serasiaon June 16, 2010   Link

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