First, I'm going to wax nostalgic about this song, then I'm going to get into what I think this song means--that's why we're all here, isn't it?
This song will always have a special place in my heart. This song came out the year of my first love. I got home from school day spent staring at the object of my affection for hours on end, and this was the first song that was playing on the radio. Of course, being 16, I had very little concept of what this song was about.
This is not one of Stevie's better songs (IMO, that would be "Edge of Seventeen"), but it will always have a special place in my heart for reasons cited.
This song seems to be about a relationship that the Narrator has with a person. It seems to be an intimate relationship (we lay face-to-face, cheek-to-cheek) in more ways than one. However, there is some question to my mind of the legitimacy of this relationship ("I can see your expression when the phone rings"--implying that her significant other must panic when the phone rings for fear it's the wife).
However, it's explicitly stated that this relationship is painful for her ("A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect"). Perhaps it's painful because she knows that the man (I assume it's a man) would never leave his wife for Stevie.
However, she's trying to get this man to open up to her, something he's unwilling or unable to do. She's tries to reassure him that she has no ill intent--that she poses no threat.
Now, I do want to point out that at one point, after breaking up with Lindsay Buckingham, Stevie Nicks had a short affair with Mick Fleetwood (who was married at the time). Not saying that this was the extent of the Nicks/Micks relationship, but it would IMO fit the profile presented here.
@tomd1969 I never understand why Stevie always blames herself for having affair with Mick. Right, he had a wife but that was she who cheated on him first and her lover was Bob Welch - past member of FM, and it was before Nicks joined the band. And since then there was not cool between Fleetwood and that girl and about Rumours time, while Stevie was breaking with Lindsley, they had also their own problems. They were still married but it was comming to an end. So in that situation the affair of Nicks and Mick should be forgiven.
@tomd1969 I never understand why Stevie always blames herself for having affair with Mick. Right, he had a wife but that was she who cheated on him first and her lover was Bob Welch - past member of FM, and it was before Nicks joined the band. And since then there was not cool between Fleetwood and that girl and about Rumours time, while Stevie was breaking with Lindsley, they had also their own problems. They were still married but it was comming to an end. So in that situation the affair of Nicks and Mick should be forgiven.
First, I'm going to wax nostalgic about this song, then I'm going to get into what I think this song means--that's why we're all here, isn't it?
This song will always have a special place in my heart. This song came out the year of my first love. I got home from school day spent staring at the object of my affection for hours on end, and this was the first song that was playing on the radio. Of course, being 16, I had very little concept of what this song was about.
This is not one of Stevie's better songs (IMO, that would be "Edge of Seventeen"), but it will always have a special place in my heart for reasons cited.
This song seems to be about a relationship that the Narrator has with a person. It seems to be an intimate relationship (we lay face-to-face, cheek-to-cheek) in more ways than one. However, there is some question to my mind of the legitimacy of this relationship ("I can see your expression when the phone rings"--implying that her significant other must panic when the phone rings for fear it's the wife).
However, it's explicitly stated that this relationship is painful for her ("A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect"). Perhaps it's painful because she knows that the man (I assume it's a man) would never leave his wife for Stevie.
However, she's trying to get this man to open up to her, something he's unwilling or unable to do. She's tries to reassure him that she has no ill intent--that she poses no threat.
Now, I do want to point out that at one point, after breaking up with Lindsay Buckingham, Stevie Nicks had a short affair with Mick Fleetwood (who was married at the time). Not saying that this was the extent of the Nicks/Micks relationship, but it would IMO fit the profile presented here.
@tomd1969 I never understand why Stevie always blames herself for having affair with Mick. Right, he had a wife but that was she who cheated on him first and her lover was Bob Welch - past member of FM, and it was before Nicks joined the band. And since then there was not cool between Fleetwood and that girl and about Rumours time, while Stevie was breaking with Lindsley, they had also their own problems. They were still married but it was comming to an end. So in that situation the affair of Nicks and Mick should be forgiven.
@tomd1969 I never understand why Stevie always blames herself for having affair with Mick. Right, he had a wife but that was she who cheated on him first and her lover was Bob Welch - past member of FM, and it was before Nicks joined the band. And since then there was not cool between Fleetwood and that girl and about Rumours time, while Stevie was breaking with Lindsley, they had also their own problems. They were still married but it was comming to an end. So in that situation the affair of Nicks and Mick should be forgiven.