Favorite Stevie Line

[David]

"I turned around & the water was closing around me."


Ahhh. . . . beautiful.

[Johnny Stew]

May I pick two? (And not in the Three Stooges kinda way, thank you very much!)

"I can see past you to the white sand...."

"I'm old enough to love you from afar...."

[GateandGarden]

"There's a heartbeat...and it never really died."

Anything glorifying the human heart (in a literal sense) is great to me, though that automatically rules out "Dreams."

But why must I choose only one line? :p

Hillary

[heyjupiter678]

There are so many, but a couple that came to mind:

"I know you know watching you go is like dying."

"Someday when we're older and my hair is silver gray, unbraid with all of the love you have - like a soft silver chain."

[heyjupiter678]

"I'm old enough to love you from afar...."
Another of my absolute favorites. :nod:

[GypsySorcerer]

"I did not deal with you, I know; though the love has always been..."

and (sorry, need to pick two)

"I have changed, oh but you, you remain ageless"

[AliP]

"So we make our choices, when there is no choice."

Truer words have never been spoken. Seems to be the story of my life.

And...
"Not all the prayers in the world could save us."

[Wild_Heart03]

"To the gypsy that remains, she faces freedom with a little fear..."

Everytime I hear that a little chill runs down my back.

[greatdarkwing]

"With the touch of your hand....well it starts again..."

That picture is worth a thousand words

~Alex

[ontheEdgeof17]

Just a few:


"Well, one more night I'd like to lie and hold you....yes, and feel....To make you smile I'd like to be there for you....Have you forgotten me?"


"You are not my friend, but still I love you."

"Take on the situation, but no the torment"



-Curtis

[ThePenguin]

'Then there are the things that cast the doubt away....
those things that made me stay...
for so long.'

-Lis

[Vianna]

One is in my sig:

We listen to their voices, ignoring our own voice...

and

But never have I been a blue calm sea, I've always been a storm, always been a storm..

There are so many..so hard to choose...

I love that bit in the long Sara where she sings "Dreaming and the wind became crazy"

Love that "Not all the prayers in the world could save us" posted above, too

And from Rhiannon: "Take me with the wind, baby-take me to the sky' and "Dreamer, silly dreamer, try hard, you can't leave her" and

'"Rhiannon," you cry, but she's gone, and your life knows no answers'

[dissention]

'Love is a word and some entertain it, if you find it, you have won the game" is her highest achievement. It don't get no better and everything else pales in comparison.

[dissention]

"You are not my friend, but still I love you."

I can just picture her singing that to Courtney Love.

[TwistedGypsy]

Have to do a Top 5 (sorry if I'm breaking the rules :rolleyes: )

In no particular order:

1. Drowning in the sea of love, Where everyone would love to drown.
2. Look at my eyes, touch my face. Baby there's no one that can ever replace that heartache! :nod:
3. My body tries to cry, Living through each empty night...
4. I have no fear, I have only love.
5. I did not find an answer but I did hear the call of a Nightbird! Saying Come away, Come Away! I hear the call of a Nightbird! (Live BellaDonna version)
OMG!!!!!! :thumbsup:
Brit

[The Tower]

"But never have I been a blue, calm sea- I have always been a storm..."

and

"Well, the people- they loved her- but still they're the most cruel..."

Very true, powerful statements.

[Serrart]

Besides all those already mentioned:

"Venus doesn't glitter when she stands next to you, when you're waltzing through stardom, you miss what you lose"

"And the sands of time like shattered glass go past her..."

"They wanted images when images weren't spoken"

"What I saw on this journey, I saw history go down, I cannot pretend that the heartache falls away"

"They go into the seas that have no shores, haunted by that same closed door"

And many others more... :D

Romy

[cliffdweller]

"And to those that I love track a ghost through a fog like a charmed hour and a haunted song and the Angel...of my dreams, angel, of my dreams."

Not to be undone by, "I still look up, when you walk in the room, I've the same wide eyes...now they tell the story."

There is so much to unpack in those two lines, it's like her whole Fleetwood Mac experience up to that point in two lyrics!

[AliceLover]

"She used to know who she was"
"Well its a hardless challenge, pick your path and then you pray"
"Still see your bright eyes, bright eyes(poor robin)"
"One set of doors was a color of honey"
"Look in my eyes, touch my face, baby is there anyone in this whole wide world that could ever replace me'


Jimmy

[amber]

You're eyes say yes, but you don't say yes...

No I haven't felt this way i feel...since many a year ago...but in those years half a lifetimes past

Well it's, hard to be civil, and its real hard to be niiiice.

No one looked, I walked by, just an invitation woulda been just fine...

Looking up and the sky's on fiya they'll be nothin left of us, to discovah.
Amber

[amber]

"And to those that I love track a ghost through a fog like a charmed hour and a haunted song and the Angel...of my dreams, angel, of my dreams."

Not to be undone by, "I still look up, when you walk in the room, I've the same wide eyes...now they tell the story."

There is so much to unpack in those two lines, it's like her whole Fleetwood Mac experience up to that point in two lyrics!
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: yeah, baby!!

[diamondsnake]

What you did not need was a woman who was stronger, you needed someone to depend on you, I could not be her, I did not want to- my first mistake was to smile at you.

[Bella Figura]

"sometime she talks to him, sometimes when she's only dreaming, then when she wakes up, somehow she still believes him"

"the spirits are ruthless with the paths they choose"

they may not be her most poetic but they have meaning for me

but trying to choose one or two is almost impossible...

oops I totally forgot "I'm not a child anymore, I'm tall enough to reach for the stars" Beautiful Child always make me weep by that part of the song...

[ShamHy89]

"And not all the prayers in the world could save us..."

That's probably my favorite. I crank up the volume whenever Storms ends just to hear that line.

Shamus

[DeadliestPoison]

"Love is a word that some entertain, and if you find it... you have won the game." Yay, Red Rocks. <333

Also? "Sometimes I don't say enough/ I play too hard, and still I'm not tough enough."

I have mad RAL love.

[mondaymornin1]

"Sometimes even I am allowed to fall."

and

"One man walked away from me...first he took my hand."

and

"Well I waited all my life for you, sweet girl" --I sang this one to my daughter--she was born in '97 :) What a great lullabye!

[celestenadia]

The bulk of Stevie's writing is pretty darn poetic & heavy. It's SO hard to pick just one...
I'll start from the "beginning" just to make it easier on myself.
"Dreams unwind
Love's a state of mind."

[jbrownsjr]

'Then there are the things that cast the doubt away....
those things that made me stay...
for so long.'

-Lis

I love this one too!

I'm Not Make Believe

[jbrownsjr]

I've been a waiting
I'm thru waiting for you

[Merf]

hold on, the night is coming
and the starling flew for days
i stay home at night
all the time
i'd go anywhere anywhere
anywhere ask me and i'll be there

[EnchantedSLN]

"Heartbreak of the moment is not endless."

Also:
"I have no fear, I have only love."
"Not all the prayers in the world could save us."
"I've been afraid of changing, because I built my life around you."
"The spirits are ruthless with the paths they choose."
"So I close my eyes softly, until I become that part of the wind, that we all long for sometime..."
"Sometimes it rages, even when it's calm."
"When I call, will you walk gently through my shadow?"
"No one knows how I feel, or what I mean unless you read between my lines."
"It's a heartless challenge, you pick your path and you pray"

[dreamongypsydkm]

I love all the ones mentioned. Well, most of them.
Plus this:

"The loneliness of a one night stand is hard to take
We all chase something
And maybe this is a dream
The timeless face of a rock and roll woman while her breaks
Oh, you know the dream keeps coming even when you forget to feel"

[Somajoseph]

Like everyone is saying,there are sooo many.The way she sings with so much conviction makes it hard to choose,but my favorite has always been the opening line to "Sara"

"Wait a minute baby...

[Kelly]

"he made love to me, with his eyes especially"

"you'll come running out in the wind with me, the ocean is your blanket"

"I can see past you to the white sand, it is BLUE , it is not about you"

[Carlene]

'Love is a word and some entertain it, if you find it, you have won the game" is her highest achievement. It don't get no better and everything else pales in comparison.

:nod::nod::nod:

Thank you for taking the words right out of my mouth! Her best line EVER and my absolute favorite.

~Carlene

[cliffdweller]

hold on, the night is coming
and the starling flew for days
i stay home at night
all the time
i'd go anywhere anywhere
anywhere ask me and i'll be there

:nod: I love this too.

[heyjupiter678]

A few more:

I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you
You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you

You've shaken your faith in me, no
You've shaken my faith in everything else

Maybe the reason I say these things is to bring you back alive
Maybe I fought this long and this hard just to make sure you survive

[gldstwmn]

"And the lady's feeling just like the moon that she loves...don't you know that the stars are a part of us?"

[EnchantedSLN]

How could I forget. "Not unlike the blue-white fire, you burn brightly in spite of yourself."

[GateandGarden]

A few more I love--

"I search only for something I can't see."

"Maybe you thought that
I'd never change - but
You know I'm changing-
You're wrong
And it's been like dying."

"Even best intentions turn around one day
Saying...Nobody's right, baby
All the time..."

"Sometimes to be near you is to be unable to hear you."

"You love somebody
Save their soul
Tie them to your heaven
Erase their hell...
Don't try to change them
You never will."

"You can consume all the beauty in the room."

"Let there be light in this lifetime."

"I can't feel bad about the way I am."

"There was a danger, and the danger was to fall in love."

"Can the child within my heart rise above."

"I hope you find a love..your own designs of love."

Hillary

[diamondsnake]

This line paints a really beautiful picture for me:

"She's back on that staircase on the way up to her place."

[heyjupiter678]

"You love somebody
Save their soul
Tie them to your heaven
Erase their hell...
Don't try to change them
You never will."

I can't believe I forgot this one! It was my email signature for a loooong time. Great choices, Hillary! :)

[strandinthewind]

Even when you feel like your life is fading
I know that you'll go on forever - your that good

and

the heartbreak of the moment is not endless!!!

I LOVE HER!!!!!!

[TheBlueLamp]

"This is a dream, right? Deja Vu
Did I come here on my own?...Oh I see"

"When you hang up that phone
Well you cease to exist"

"I want to fly across the world in a golden ball" (The Nicks Fix says it's "I watched you"...but I think it's "want to". I just love that line and the delivery.

"And I'm tired of...I'm tired of trying" (and just about every other line in OTR)

"In my distress...well I wanted someone to blame me
In my devastation...I wanted so to change
In my way...disaster was the only thing that I could depend on
But it's alright, baby...I'm doing the best that I can"

"Fate causes fortune and fortune takes it away
And then fortune causes nightmares...nightmares that make you crazy"

Nick

[amber]

"So be true to me, my walls are flamin'"
"And so you run towards, what you know is wrong.."
"Yesterday I was fascinated by, somebody else"
"We were off the wall, we were mirrors, of our former selves, well, you coulda said no"
AMber

[TwistedGypsy]

"The forgotten Chimpanze..."

:lol: I had to! But serisously: "No one walks away from this battle, not from the power, its so strong. Like a fury. Keep that fury deep inside and wish to end..."

"Well I have all these thing, all these things but a small gold band. On my finger, on my left hand..." Just kill me. :distress:
Brit

[heyjupiter678]

"The forgotten Chimpanze..."

:lol: I had to!
Ugh. :distress: I've been pretending that one doesn't exist for years now. Thanks for the reminder. :laugh:

[Oona]

My first choice is an utilitarian quote.....not emotional, nor pretty, just functional.......
"Take on the situation but not the torment" SN

Honorable mention goes to the seemingly obvious, yet so pure, wise and powerful.....
"fearlessness is fearlessness" SN

and the deliciously obtuse and graphically chilling
"and the lady's feeling just like the moon that she loves" SN
~~~~~~~~~~pure Stevie~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Altho B+B took a beating in the WH breakdown (I fail to comprehend it)
"My love comes from a world of false pleasures and pain" SN
That heart wrenching delivery....hoofah...it chills my blood every time.

[eclipse]

Oh there are just so many and most have already been quoted- Here are a few I love- I prefer the darker side of Stevie

"My first mistake was to smile at you"
"Affairs of the heart that start out in the dark-usually end up in the night"
"She will leave you ..crying in the night.."
"pick up the pieces and go H O M E "
"Intense-Silence, as she walked in the room"
"she matters to you..., kinda woman that will haunt you"
"Could you love me-only?"
"you will remember but I, I will die, slowly..."

Such passion, I love all those lines..and perhaps my favorite (cuz I think she wrote it for me.."I wear boots all summer long...

[Lorraine]

I wanted to choose more than one line so here goes:


"I'll follow you down to the ground till my voice will haunt you.

You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you."


"We come from different worlds, but we are the same" (shiver down spine with the entwining of voices from Lori Nicks).


Lorraine :)

[jadegypsy]

ohh I love soooo many but off the top of my head:

FM:

"track a ghost through the fog..."
"so I become that part of the wind that we all long for..."
"and the people oh they love her, but still they are most cruel..."
"she is like a cat in the dark-then she is the darkness"
"And I have changed but you, you remain ageless..."
"Back to the gypsy that I was, to the gypsy that I was, and it all comes down to you, lightning strikes maybe once, maybe twice..."
"Sometimes even i am allowed to fall."
"I chose to dace across the stages of the world..."
"Maybe4 our paths are not supposed to cross twice, maybe your arms are not supposed to go around me..."

Solo:
"And the days go by like a strand in the wind in the web that is my own I begin again..."
"Fire on fire rain on my face fever goes higher what can I say..."
"It is green it is aquamarine, it is colors I have never seen...it is blue it is not about YOU..."
"Pale pink satin that was worn out in a week..."
"she'll go fast like a jet plane, fast like a starstrean, she'll hit you with a fury..."
"I'll take off my cape for you, I'll take down my hair for you, anything you want me to do..."
"And the timeless face of a rock'n roll woman while her heart breaks..."
"And she was never sorry for wishes that would burn"

[golddustwoman77]

Well, this took some thought, because there are so many great lines to choose from in her collection. In no particular order:

1. Special knowledge holds truth, bears believing~~"Crystal"

2. When the rain washes you clean... you'll know~~"Dreams"

3. Dreams Unwind, Love's a State of Mind~~"Rhiannon"

4. A memory is all that is left for you now~~"Gypsy"

5. Poet priest of nothing~~"Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You"

6. My mind won't rest and I don't sleep
not even in my dreams and You've left me now and it's seasoned my soul~~"If You Ever Did Believe"

7. The dream is not over,
The dream is just away~~"Straight Back"

8.Timeless is the creature who is wise~~"Beauty and the Beast"

9. Step into the velvet of the morning~~"Think About It"

[ejof17]

You say it will be harder in the morning...I wait for you to say "Just go".

[TwistedGypsy]

"I'll follow you down to the ground till my voice will haunt you.

Sorry to correct, but its just some of my perfectionism (i hope i spelled that right :rolleyes: )
But I beleive it goes: "I'll follow you down till the sound of my voice will haunt you..." Not trying to be rude. I tried to let it go but I just couldn't. :)
And I must add one to my list: "And if I find the answer, I promise you I'll come back and get you"
Brit

[TwistedGypsy]

Just watched the IYEDB video and I have always loved the line: "My mind won't rest and I don't sleep. Not even in my dreams." ;)
Brit

[jbrownsjr]

Welcome Everyone Ok i hated when she said that

cos i wear boots all summer long

i love this song!