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Originally Posted by SpyNote
Here's an interpretation of "Kick It." I don't think Stevie's ever talked about it.
“Kick It” is partly inspired by Oscar Wilde’s 1888 story “The Happy Prince,” a “strange kind of love affair” between a swallow and a statue of a prince. Stevie adapted certain lines from Wilde’s story (a public domain work) for the song.
WILDE: “I will stay with you one night longer,” said the Swallow
NICKS: I’ll stay with you for one more night
WILDE: “I am waited for in Egypt,” said the Swallow. “My friends are flying up and down the Nile, and talking to the large lotus-flowers.
NICKS: Well, I’m waited for in Egypt. It’s just something I must do.
WILDE: “For in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me.”
NICKS: Nothing like forevermore
In “The Happy Prince,” love and sacrifice are saving forces for the swallow and the prince. Stevie mirrors this sentiment in the lyric “I loved you more than life itself/But I’m prepared to kick it.” At the time of this recording, Stevie had just completed an intensive rehabilitation program for prescription medication addiction.
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So "you" is a person or a drug?
The way I see it she sings about wanting to quit drugs ("she prefers to kick it") for this "you" person in the song. I don't think it works with "you" being a drug? Because if you is the drug... She sings I would really rather die than make you stop, I think that is the meaning of love. Okay, so if you is a drug, it makes sense. She loves drugs and won't stop until she's dead. But then she songs "I prefer to kick it" which would mean she prefers to quit drugs, right? So it's contradiction because she just said she would rather die than quit.
But if "you" is a person it makes more sense, because being in a relationship might make them "stop". So kicking the relationship would actually help the person proceed.
I don't see it working on a level where "you" is the drug.
But it does make sense if you is a person and kick it is about a drug.
And thank you so much for posting that excerpt it's really cool.