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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew
It may have become a central line in the 'Say You Will' version, but it started out life as a throwaway. She sang it at the tail-end of the 'Tusk' demo (you actually have to listen for it, as other things are being sung at the same time), and it doesn't appear at all in the 'Mirage'-era recordings. Not even in Stevie's ad-libs (which, surely, if it meant anything to her, she would have carried it over to each attempt at recording the song).
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The line is the refrain of the song. It doesn't matter how many demos there are of the song with the line thrown in at the end. Ultimately, what matters is that the official version was released with that very poorly written line as the refrain. It's the most important line in the song. There's no way that happened without her wanting it to happen.
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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew
The band members, Lindsey included, have said many times that they worked for months on Stevie's tracks before she arrived to record her vocals. I would assume that meant arranging the songs, working out the structure, and recording basic tracks. So if Lindsey fashioned a chorus out of that line, I'm guessing he liked the sound of it, didn't have an issue with the grammar, and thought it gave the song a good "hook."
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The key word there is "assume." And my point has been we don't really know what happened that wasn't in the documentary or that someone hasn't talked about. As a songwriter, the likelihood that Stevie in 2002 would have let Lindsey or anybody change her song that much -- to actually change the chorus -- is slim to none. And as Michele and others have pointed out, she has a history of fighting tooth and nail for her lyrics. Why would you think this is different?