Release Party Interpretation - I MISS YOU

[Stewy]

Have fun all - and remember to keep on interpreting the other songs in the Release Party if you haven't already!!

Stewy




I Miss You

Words by Stevie Nicks. Music by Rick Nowels.


When I think about you
I think about how much I
Miss you when you're not around
When I think about you
I think about how much I
Can't wait to hear the sound
Of your laughter
Time and distance never matter

Chorus:
Well I miss you now
I have so many questions
About love and about pain
About strained relationships
About fame as only he could explain it to me

Seems like yesterday
I think about how much I
Wish that you were here with me now
The invisible girl that was my name
She walks in and walks out
And I'm sorry now
I'm sorry now

Chorus

Paris to Rome, London to Paris
Always goodbye, I nearly couldn't bear it
Her heart settles down
She's back on that staircase
On the way up to her place

Chorus

[rhiannon1119]

This is a really beautiful song. It is one of my favorites. When I first heard it, my immediate reacton was that it has to be about an old boyfriend that she truly misses.

I think it is a song about how she misses spending time with him and certain things about him. She misses his laughter and his friendship. I think she also wishes that he was around her now to give her advice on a lot of things in life that she still has questions about....and it seems that his opinion on these things is the only one she will really care about. No one else can explain things the way he can.

Of course, my natural instinct was to think of Lindsey, but she has said that this song is not about him. I also think that the music compliments the lyrics beautifully.

:wavey: Michelle

[Stewy]

I have really mixed opinions about who this song is about...and I'm not entirely sure that at least one part of a paragraph isn't about Lindsey, though I'm still just a hopeless romantic about those two.
Anway - here's my interp.

When I think about you
I think about how much I
Miss you when you're not around
When I think about you
I think about how much I
Can't wait to hear the sound
Of your laughter
Time and distance never matter

She's obviously very into someone and showing her feelings about when he's gone. I think it's interesting how she focuses on the sound of his laughter, not necessarily the sound of his voice, and this really shows Stevie's personality - how she loves things that are fun and humorous, and she loves the fact that whoever she's with loves the same things.

Well I miss you now
I have so many questions
About love and about pain
About strained relationships
About fame as only he could explain it to me


Who else would know more about love, pain, strained relationships and fame than Stevie herself?? I think the person she's speaking about knew her when it was all bad for her and she wants to know about how things were...and how SHE was then and how he feels about the same things. 'He' is definitely someone who knows the business and knows Stevie well.

Maybe Petty is who she's talking about here. Though Stevie claims that she's never had a thing with him - well who knows. I also see the side of this where Stevie's not 'in love' with this person, but he's her very best friend and she misses him terribly when he's gone. She can talk to him about every aspect of her life and he'll understand it and accept her unconditionally.


Seems like yesterday
I think about how much I
Wish that you were here with me now
The invisible girl that was my name
She walks in and walks out
And I'm sorry now
I'm sorry now


This verse is so cryptic - it makes it really difficult to interp. Anyway, I think tis verse has a lot to do about regret and how she wishes something had happened differently in the past. It's also odd to me that she changes person here going from "I" to "she". I think she does this to go from present to past here. It's "I think" to "she walks in and walks out" - I think that was her memory of something in the past that she did.

The 'invisible girl' phrase is the key to this verse. I think she's saying that she walked in and out of people's lies like she was invisible - affecting them maybe without their being concious of it, and then she just turned her back on them (and him in particular). She left him and now she regrets it.


Paris to Rome, London to Paris
Always goodbye, I nearly couldn't bear it
Her heart settles down
She's back on that staircase
On the way up to her place


I don't know enough about the people Stevie's had relationships/friendships with to be able to pinpoint sho she's talking about here. Who was the European traveler???

Either way, it was a strain on her every time he left...and he left alot by the sound of her lyrics. Maybe the countries are just a metaphor for him being far away - I don't know. The last parapraph is the most sad to me. It's sad because he's gone again and she's all alone with herself. She's once again coming to terms with him leaving and she going back up the stairs to her place all alone again.

This last paragraph makes me think that a little of this is about Lindsey. Mick and Stevie have both said that Stevie had a little like condo that had stairs going up to it right after Lindsey and Stevie broke up seemingly for good. You Stevie fans probably can clear up any confusion here for me...


Stewy

[Jo and Jensen]

This is a very emotional song. To me for some reason I connect it to Kind of Woman', probably because 'Kind of Woman' is slow and emotional just as this one is. I love them both.

When I think about you
I think about how much I
Miss you when you're not around
When I think about you
I think about how much I
Can't wait to hear the sound
Of your laughter
Time and distance never matter

At first listen I thought that this was about Lindsey...of course I would. But then in an interview the intervewer asked if this one was about Lindsey and she said no...but in the back of my mind I wonder. Then the more I listened to it...I was thinking that maybe it wasn't about a lover. It could be about her grandfather. He LOVED music just as much as she does. But that might not fit. It's just an idea I have.

The invisible girl that was my name
She walks in and walks out
And I'm sorry now
I'm sorry now

This is what draws me into it being about Lindsey. He had said during 'Tango In The Night' that Stevie just stopped by to do her parts and then left. Actually I think it was said also about 'Mirage' And she's sorry that she wasn't there in the studio.

Jensen

[maclvr]

Then the more I listened to it...I was thinking that maybe it wasn't about a lover. It could be about her grandfather

I totally got the same feeling - like maybe her parents or something or her grandfather- i don't know why i got the sense that i might not be about a boyfriend, but about someone she loved in another way.

I don't know enough about the people Stevie's had relationships/friendships with to be able to pinpoint sho she's talking about here. Who was the European traveler???

i thought she was the traveler, but i guess rereading it maybe it seems like she's the one being left behind. i thought it was about her never being at home- always off "she doesn't have 5 minutes- she's got to go"

[maclvr]

Then the more I listened to it...I was thinking that maybe it wasn't about a lover. It could be about her grandfather

I totally got the same feeling - like maybe her parents or something or her grandfather- i don't know why i got the sense that i might not be about a boyfriend, but about someone she loved in another way.

I don't know enough about the people Stevie's had relationships/friendships with to be able to pinpoint sho she's talking about here. Who was the European traveler???

i thought she was the traveler, but i guess rereading it maybe it seems like she's the one being left behind. i thought it was about her never being at home- always off "she doesn't have 5 minutes- she's got to go"