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Raven hair and ruby lips
sparks fly from her finger tips
Echoed voices in the night
she's a restless spirit on an endless flight
wooo hooo witchy woman, see how
high she flies
woo hoo witchy woman she got
the moon in her eye
She held me spellbound in the night
dancing shadows and firelight
crazy laughter in another
room and she drove herself to madness
with a silver spoon
woo hoo witchy woman see how high she flies
woo hoo witchy woman she got the moon in her eye
Well I know you want a lover,
let me tell your brother, she's been sleeping
in the Devil's bed.
And there's some rumors going round
someone's underground
she can rock you in the nighttime
'til your skin turns red
woo hoo witchy woman
see how high she flies
woo hoo witchy woman
she got the moon in her eye
sparks fly from her finger tips
Echoed voices in the night
she's a restless spirit on an endless flight
wooo hooo witchy woman, see how
high she flies
woo hoo witchy woman she got
the moon in her eye
She held me spellbound in the night
dancing shadows and firelight
crazy laughter in another
room and she drove herself to madness
with a silver spoon
woo hoo witchy woman see how high she flies
woo hoo witchy woman she got the moon in her eye
Well I know you want a lover,
let me tell your brother, she's been sleeping
in the Devil's bed.
And there's some rumors going round
someone's underground
she can rock you in the nighttime
'til your skin turns red
woo hoo witchy woman
see how high she flies
woo hoo witchy woman
she got the moon in her eye
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i dont know if you guys have read Wikipedia,it says this song has something to do with Zelda Fitzgerald...idk if that's right but i do think the idea that this song is about herion is really funny and absured...maybe the line "madness with a silver spoon " is about drugs or something like that,but this is not the main idea of this song.
The inspiration was apparently Indians (native_Americans for the PC-people) and F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Fitzgerald were somehow also behind the inspiration.
Lol, why do people think that mostly all great songs written are about drugs? It really makes me laugh. As for me, I think that this song is about a very "witchy" woman (no pun intended)...Because in some cultures, women are described as witches because of their beauty, seductiveness. I think this song is very much about such a seductive, sexy woman. A succubus probably.
Lets be honest most of the greatest songs were written whilst the writer was high
Lets be honest most of the greatest songs were written whilst the writer was high
They think that because back in the sixties and seventies this type of hippy code language was in all the great songs almost. I know, I was there and flyin high baby. Dig it? Lucy In the sky with diamonds was about LSD, strawberry fields was a pot thing, and don't even get me started on the Doors. I am not bragging about my drug use, it was stupid and I paid the long term consequences. But you kids now days simply don't get it, and you never will. You had to be there in the moment, part of that...
They think that because back in the sixties and seventies this type of hippy code language was in all the great songs almost. I know, I was there and flyin high baby. Dig it? Lucy In the sky with diamonds was about LSD, strawberry fields was a pot thing, and don't even get me started on the Doors. I am not bragging about my drug use, it was stupid and I paid the long term consequences. But you kids now days simply don't get it, and you never will. You had to be there in the moment, part of that rising tide of change. We thought anything was possible, and it was.
@mydoglucky I agree...because if it's about drugs at all, it's funny they never mention it in ANY interview regarding this song.
@mydoglucky I agree...because if it's about drugs at all, it's funny they never mention it in ANY interview regarding this song.
@mydoglucky interesting take that is heroin. I was thinking the exact same song meaning except I was thinking cocaine due to the fact that people often use a little silver coke spoon to snort coke. That is why Stevie Nicks referred to it in the song Gold dust woman. She has openly admitted she was referring to cocaine. But since you use a silver spoon to heat up heroin that is also a good explanation.
@mydoglucky interesting take that is heroin. I was thinking the exact same song meaning except I was thinking cocaine due to the fact that people often use a little silver coke spoon to snort coke. That is why Stevie Nicks referred to it in the song Gold dust woman. She has openly admitted she was referring to cocaine. But since you use a silver spoon to heat up heroin that is also a good explanation.
@mydoglucky I agrer with you.. Hhe Blue Oyster Cult song Sinful Love has a similar theme
@mydoglucky I agrer with you.. Hhe Blue Oyster Cult song Sinful Love has a similar theme
Let's get one thing straight people. "She drove herself to madness with a silver spoon" has nothing to do with Heroin. The song writer has stated it is about absinthe. Seeing as the traditional way to drink Absinthe was to rest a slotted silver spoon over a glass which contains a small amount of absinthe. You then place a sugar cube on the slotted silver spoon, then pour water over the sugar cube and spoon to dilute and sweeten the absinthe, as for the"drove herself to madness" part; Absinthe contains wormwood, I would say when this song was written, absinthe contained more wormwood than it would these days. Wormwood is an hallucinagenic, and contains thujone.
In witchcraft, and herbology, Wormwood, and a few other varieties of Artemisia, are known as a dream herb, a herbal medicine for a few reasons (anti-parasitic,anti-inflammatory,anti-septic)and is used in quite a lot of spells and potions. It can be toxic in high doses, and has stories of consumers of absinthe going mad from drinking to excess. Not everything that makes you hallucinate is a hard drug like LCD or heroine people.
@WEyesOwl Finally someone who knows what that's about.
@WEyesOwl Finally someone who knows what that's about.
Its about Susan Atkins.
It's not about Stevie Nicks. She doesn't have raven hair.
great tune. It kind of makes me smile, but nevertheless a good tune.
its about my girlfriend, that heroin addict
An absolute CLASSIC and a very underrated Eagles track. Great Bluesy guitar, one of those songs that must be cranked up real LOUD. I think its just about a woman that can take you over (kinda live the chick in livin la vioda loca!!!!!)
I can see where the heroin theory comes from but I also think it may be about a woman who is so undeniably sexy, so hot that it hurts. And face it, the Devil is so much hotter than an Angel and so comes the line " - sleeping in the Devil's bed"