Your Life's Fleetwood/Stevie/Lindsey Song

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by elle

what do you think ISA lyrics really mean - other than obvious?

"slip and i fall and i die" part always sounds to me like a fear of heights - like if you are on a really high bridge or rooftop or somewhere like that and if you go too close to the edge you'll somehow slip, fall and die...

Stevie has said that her songs are prescient (i.e. Rose Garden) and I think ISA is like that in a way as well. It seems to have that same fear of losing it that a song like "Go Insane" does. If it had been written in 1987, it would have had a great deal of meaning, considering what was going on in his life then.

When there were lyric interpretations, people said that ISA might have originated when Lindsey's mononucleosis (or whatever illness he had; it's unclear, according to Lindsey) was lingering, but the lyrics have a panic to them that seem to amount to more than that.

Michele