This song is actually about three threads. The first one is about how Nicks felt horrible in her new house because it was so depressing. She had no furnitures or even phone and she felt like a hermit: "Learn to be a starnger/ Blonde on blonde" - Stevie's blonde and it means "learn to be with yourself". Later she's singin about Robin - she's that "falling leaf". Falling leaf is an idea that Stevie got from one of the paintings from Sulamith Wülfing and in fact Robin was the reason why she wrote that song. And later she's singing about Jimmy Iovine, her then-boyfriend and how she felt that their relationship was going to an end. She wished Jimmy came and was with her then.
This song is actually about three threads. The first one is about how Nicks felt horrible in her new house because it was so depressing. She had no furnitures or even phone and she felt like a hermit: "Learn to be a starnger/ Blonde on blonde" - Stevie's blonde and it means "learn to be with yourself". Later she's singin about Robin - she's that "falling leaf". Falling leaf is an idea that Stevie got from one of the paintings from Sulamith Wülfing and in fact Robin was the reason why she wrote that song. And later she's singing about Jimmy Iovine, her then-boyfriend and how she felt that their relationship was going to an end. She wished Jimmy came and was with her then.