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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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THANK YOU for that info SpyNote-I never knew all that! I always love when I see Stevie has been inspired by literature (in ways that I don't usually catch on my own). She's better read-and not the ding bat that many think she is!
Sometimes her literature references are sort of oblique though-I seem to remember seeing a long time ago that Rooms On Fire borrowed lines from... The Picture Of Dorian Gray maybe(?)>
Ricoh