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.
Stevie clearly said in a radio interview that Fall from Grace was about Lindsey, that she wrote it after The Dance, and that she was very angry with him in this song. I believe it is probably due to the fact that the walking womb became pregnant YET AGAIN effectively tying Lindsey to her side (via the children) and dousing any hopes Stevie and Lindsey might have had for a reconciliation referred to in Thrown Down. Stevie sounds pretty disgusted, as well she should. Someone should have sat Lindsey down and explained where babies came from.
Stevie clearly said in a radio interview that Fall from Grace was about Lindsey, that she wrote it after The Dance, and that she was very angry with him in this song. I believe it is probably due to the fact that the walking womb became pregnant YET AGAIN effectively tying Lindsey to her side (via the children) and dousing any hopes Stevie and Lindsey might have had for a reconciliation referred to in Thrown Down. Stevie sounds pretty disgusted, as well she should. Someone should have sat Lindsey down and explained where babies came from.
@irishgirl "Fall From Grace" is about FLEETWOOD MAC! - and she clearly said it in an interview! And that song you are talking about is "Thrown Down" - here she's singing about him.
@irishgirl "Fall From Grace" is about FLEETWOOD MAC! - and she clearly said it in an interview! And that song you are talking about is "Thrown Down" - here she's singing about him.
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.
Stevie clearly said in a radio interview that Fall from Grace was about Lindsey, that she wrote it after The Dance, and that she was very angry with him in this song. I believe it is probably due to the fact that the walking womb became pregnant YET AGAIN effectively tying Lindsey to her side (via the children) and dousing any hopes Stevie and Lindsey might have had for a reconciliation referred to in Thrown Down. Stevie sounds pretty disgusted, as well she should. Someone should have sat Lindsey down and explained where babies came from.
Stevie clearly said in a radio interview that Fall from Grace was about Lindsey, that she wrote it after The Dance, and that she was very angry with him in this song. I believe it is probably due to the fact that the walking womb became pregnant YET AGAIN effectively tying Lindsey to her side (via the children) and dousing any hopes Stevie and Lindsey might have had for a reconciliation referred to in Thrown Down. Stevie sounds pretty disgusted, as well she should. Someone should have sat Lindsey down and explained where babies came from.
@irishgirl "Fall From Grace" is about FLEETWOOD MAC! - and she clearly said it in an interview! And that song you are talking about is "Thrown Down" - here she's singing about him.
@irishgirl "Fall From Grace" is about FLEETWOOD MAC! - and she clearly said it in an interview! And that song you are talking about is "Thrown Down" - here she's singing about him.