Christine's songs on Time have a theme

diamondsnake · #1 05-01-2004, 09:09 PM

Has anyone else noticed that Christine's songs on Time are all about how she misses the change of seasons and wants to quit the band and leave town? I think it is really cool!

She starts off with Hollywood, saying she doesn't like the city and wants to go back to her roots: the change of seasons in a country in England. Then the last song, Do It All Over Again ends with "So it's time to move onto the rain- and finally break the chain". Rain is what England and London are famous for and breaking the chain is a metaphor for leaving the band.

I just think it is really cool and so truthful that she ends the last song she ever did on a FM studio album saying that she is going to "break the chain".

Hawkeye · #2 05-01-2004, 09:38 PM

actually her last song on a Fleetwood Mac album was Temporary One, which by the way says The Bridge will bring us back together. Don't know how true that will be but...

MacMan · #3 05-01-2004, 09:42 PM

I agree diamondsnake. It's sad in a way now knowing what was to become, and then going back to listen to it... and that last song seemed like such a swan song too. Too bad no one noticed at the "time", no pun intended.

diamondsnake · #4 05-02-2004, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by MacMan

I agree diamondsnake. It's sad in a way now knowing what was to become, and then going back to listen to it... and that last song seemed like such a swan song too. Too bad no one noticed at the "time", no pun intended.

Exactly, it's very bittersweet. I would be mad about her quitting the band, but with a new solo album coming out, I can't complain!

HollywoodSteve · #5 05-02-2004, 01:17 AM

I always thought that "Temporary One" and her "Time" songs sent mixed signals. Very contradictory. Great songs though.

Mari · #6 05-02-2004, 04:38 AM

I can go along with the idea she was thinking about leaving the band at the time when Time was recorded, but that was 1994. Fleetwood Mac wasn't the same band, nor in the same position as it was in the Dance-period. I can understand she had different feelings about being in the band back then.

*I'm listening to Time now for the first time since.. oh I don't know, a couple of years?

diamondsnake · #7 05-02-2004, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye

actually her last song on a Fleetwood Mac album was Temporary One, which by the way says The Bridge will bring us back together. Don't know how true that will be but...

But live albums don't count. I was talking about her last actual album, you know, a studio album.