What do you think is Stevie's worst lyric?

[Dodfather]

Hi guys,

I'm guessing that the "chimpanzee" line will listed by a lot of you and yes, it is God-awful, but the other line that I think is up there as one of her worst has to be:

"she depends on her music like a husband" from Ghosts.

I actually like The Other Side Of The Mirror if I'm in the right mood, apart from the last track, and really like Ghosts too - but just not that line...ugggghhh!

What other lines make you all cringe?

[ButterCookie]

Hi guys,

I'm guessing that the "chimpanzee" line will listed by a lot of you and yes, it is God-awful, but the other line that I think is up there as one of her worst has to be:

"she depends on her music like a husband" from Ghosts.

I actually like The Other Side Of The Mirror if I'm in the right mood, apart from the last track, and really like Ghosts too - but just not that line...ugggghhh!

What other lines make you all cringe?

Oh god, don't let the feminists get her :shocked:

[LiquidDiamonds]

Street Angel and OSOTM are full of bad lyrics, but the one I hate the most is:

"It hurts my self esteem, it hurts my everything" - Not Make Believe

"You can't have him, I do have him" also makes me cringe.

[markolas]

"It hurts my self-esteem, it hurts my everything...I am reeling...oh, it hurts my feelings" is pretty bad.

Her bellowing "Operation Desert Shield! Operation Desert Storm!" on Desert Angel always made me cringe.

"Would you write this for me, he says no, you write your songs yourself" is atrocious.

"Depends on her music like a husband" always bothered me, but it's far from her worst lyric. Same w/ the chimpanzee line.

I think "Gate & Garden" is about her vagina.

Oh, and "my walls are flaming." lol

I'm sure there are others that I can't think of right now.

[LiquidDiamonds]

I think "Gate & Garden" is about her vagina.


:laugh: :laugh:

[Kayli]

"My walls are flaming"

"Well they might as well have caged her own baby" and yes, all the chimp lines make me cringe.

"Well it's better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all" :rolleyes:

[silvasprings]

"Immersed in a hardcore world"

"She's got a million bucks and she looks like it..."

Silver Girl is a minefield of cringes! :lol:

That said, I really love the chorus

[LiquidDiamonds]

"Immersed in a hardcore world"

"She's got a million bucks and she looks like it..."

Silver Girl is a minefield of cringes! :lol:

That said, I really love the chorus

I always forget about Silver Girl! I like to pretend that song never happened. Poor Sheryl was probably like WTF?.

[silvasprings]

I always forget about Silver Girl! I like to pretend that song never happened. Poor Sheryl was probably like WTF?.

I suppose the thought was there, I don't even know what was going on in her head...

But then, nobody really does :rolleyes:

[Nikolaj]

'Silver Girl' and 'That Made Me Stronger' both have lyrics that I thought were so beneath her, 'girly girl' in SG and a lot of 'TMMS'. She liked the songs, though, so that's good. Sometimes, I think Stevie just has to do what Stevie thinks she has to do, whether or not the decisions make for artistically good choices.
I also hated 'Goodbye Baby' as an encore on the SYW tour, it seemed so manipulative and inappropriate, considering, as the final song of the concerts. I think it is pretty lousy on the cd also, but I know some people love the song, so no offense meant.
There's so much SN has written, recorded and performed that I do like a lot, so I focus more on that to not question my lifetime of fandom.
I agree with the thread-starter, Dodfather, that the forgetful chimpanzee will get some votes.
Uh, forgotten.

[MissLadyLoki]

"It makes no difference at all cause I wear boots all summer long" (it's more funy than bad IMO)

"For the moment that I'm Bruce Lee, eyes all kill poor ol' lonely on the edge of 17" (I probably misheard that one badly)

"My walls are flaming"

"Lightning strikes maybe once, maybe twice" (as much as I love Gypsy, that's hilariously bad)

[APerfectLie]

Oh you guys. I actually have no problem with most of those lyrics. The two I do have a problem with are:

"They may tell you that you hold the world in you hands, but they always GIVE it back."
Shouldn't it be take it back?

"Seen anything today never seen anything like you"
LOL WUT? I always felt this line should have been "Seen many things today, but I've never seen anything like you."

[APerfectLie]

"It makes no difference at all cause I wear boots all summer long" (it's more funy than bad IMO)

"For the moment that I'm Bruce Lee, eyes all kill poor ol' lonely on the edge of 17" (I probably misheard that one badly)

"My walls are flaming"

"Lightning strikes maybe once, maybe twice" (as much as I love Gypsy, that's hilariously bad)

LOL! It does kinda sound like that! But it's "But the moment that I first laid eyes on him, all alone on the edge of seventeen."

[markolas]

"Well they might as well have caged her own baby"

Oh, I hadn't listened to that in so long I forgot about it. :laugh: And she sings it with such pathos, too.

[Josh2003]

"And she stares at the stairs...ooh well there are many things to stare at these days"

[equeen102289]

"The sky is not crying, the sky is blue. "

Most awful thing she has ever written.

[markolas]

"And she stares at the stairs...ooh well there are many things to stare at these days"

lol That's another one I forgot about.

[Kayli]

Oh you guys. I actually have no problem with most of those lyrics. The two I do have a problem with are:

"They may tell you that you hold the world in you hands, but they always GIVE it back."
Shouldn't it be take it back?

"Seen anything today never seen anything like you"
LOL WUT? I always felt this line should have been "Seen many things today, but I've never seen anything like you."

You're right about the give back line. I never realized it until now. lol

[DestinyRules]

Silver Girl is a minefield of cringes! :lol:

I think you mean Silver HURL! LOL!

[Nikolaj]

[QUOTE=APerfectLie;916712]Oh you guys. I actually have no problem with most of those lyrics. The two I do have a problem with are:

"They may tell you that you hold the world in you hands, but they always GIVE it back."
Shouldn't it be take it back?

OK, I'm impressed. Never have heard that very intelligent observation before, good one.

Now, intrepretations:
'They may tell you that you hold the world in your hands, but they always give it back'
ok...
I get it. They told Stevie she had the world in her hands, but then 'they' took the world out of Stevie's hands, and gave the world back to the world, because the world belongs to itself, not to or in Stevie's hands."
OR
it's not about Stevie, 'you' hold the world in your hands, but 'they' take the world out of your hands where it shouldn't be, and 'give it back'--- to the world, where the world should be, not in your hands!
And sure, someone else has the ability to remove the world where it shouldn't be and give it back- to the world! A public service, of sorts.

APerfectLie's is the perfect logical explanation, the lyric is sort of strange! But to those of us who lived during 'RAL'- giving the world back to the world makes almost as much sense as 'this is not the world, not the world, not the world, not the real world' lovely and trippy hooky "Nightmare" remix that was more interesting than the version on the RAL album cd. The remix is so cool, both the 7"inch edit and the extended version on the 'ICW' maxi single. I just love that grainy black and white cover photo of Stevie on the ICW maxi, she looks so stunningly, gorgeously decadent! So 'Rock A Little'
Now take the world out of your hands and give it back to the world!

[baboles]

"And she stares at the stairs...ooh well there are many things to stare at these days"

Oooooh yes! I'm always like, "WTF?!" when I hear this lyric.

[baboles]

"The sky is not crying, the sky is blue. "

Most awful thing she has ever written.

Not the best lyric, but I do enjoy how she sings this line.

[johnnystorms]

"The sky is not crying, the sky is blue. "

Most awful thing she has ever written.

i actually like the vagueness of that lyric. "blue" being another word for sad. so is the sky not crying, but sad? or is the sky blue and happy (as in not "saddened" by clouds?)
i think it's a great play on words!

[Sanne2]

"You can ride high atop your pony
I know you won't fall...
'Cause the whole thing's phoney"

I hate how the album starts with that

[Dr.Brown]

I had originally chosen the lyrics from Docklands but was reminded that she didn't write them. Thank God! Still, my mind spins when I hear her singing about going down to a laudromat!:shrug:

[Silver Springs]

"And she stares at the stairs...ooh well there are many things to stare at these days"

Oooooh yes! I'm always like, "WTF?!" when I hear this lyric.

I understand this too well. When you're in that frame of mind where activity is just beyond you and all you can do is find a quiet area to sit in, you find yourself staring at the oddest things just to pass the time. I had one of those days the other day, and after I found a quiet spot in the Drawing corridor I spent hours staring at a socket. I just didn't have the mental capacity for anything else.

[Josh2003]

She didn't write Docklands, people!

[LiquidDiamonds]

"And she stares at the stairs...ooh well there are many things to stare at these days"

That reminded me of this:
"The closest you've ever come to me was to help me up the stairs
You stood in the middle of the stairway
You nearly dragged me up the stairs"

She had an odd fascination with stairs in the late 80s.

[holidayroad]

'Welcome to the choir, sir' (Welcome To the Room, Sara)

'Ooh, you're consistent. Hey, and that's good' (Love Is Like a River)....edit: I meant Listen To the Rain! I think I'm losing my memory at 36 years old!!!

[GypsySorcerer]

I agree with some already mentioned, like "stairs at the stairs." But holy hell, "Listen to the Rain" is one awful mess:

Well you're a victim
Phantom of the opera
And you've been everywhere...
And you live in dark shadows
You do what you want to...
There's no Beauty and the Beast here
No...no...no...
There's no Beauty and the Beast here!!

Bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeechhhhhhhh!

"It's like a river, it's never ending" -- Illume

"I was born in the desert, so I know how it feels there" -- Desert Angel

"Rhinestone collections all the time...I wonder what Greta would say" -- Greta

"Such words to her over the phone" -- Thousand Days

"Well I talked to my famous friend last night; My third day up...well, his second nighter." -- Two Kinds of Love


:distress: :eek:

[MissLadyLoki]

LOL! It does kinda sound like that! But it's "But the moment that I first laid eyes on him, all alone on the edge of seventeen."

I knew I made a mistake. Then again, i thought she said "Like a weirdo I can bend" in Stand Back (it's really willow, but still)

[vivfox]

"You can ride high atop your pony
I know you won't fall...
'Cause the whole thing's phoney"


I love these words because they were so pivitol of her career at that moment in time. Great way to begin her first solo album, if you ask moi.

You can ride high atop your pony--Stevie can be on top of the world, a big time rock and roll star flying on private planes, riding in expensive cars

I know you won't fall--very confident in who she is, an accomplished, famous star still rising

'Cause the whole thing's phony"--the entertainment business is sorta fake-players only love you when they're playing-sheltered from the real world

[vivfox]

"The sky is not crying, the sky is blue. "

Most awful thing she has ever written.


The song sucks but I like these words.
The sky is not crying, the sky is blue. "--nobody is crying, everything is great, blue skies baby

[BellaDonna93]

"It hurts my self-esteem, it hurts my everything...I am reeling...oh, it hurts my feelings" is pretty bad.

Her bellowing "Operation Desert Shield! Operation Desert Storm!" on Desert Angel always made me cringe.

"Would you write this for me, he says no, you write your songs yourself" is atrocious.

"Depends on her music like a husband" always bothered me, but it's far from her worst lyric. Same w/ the chimpanzee line.

I think "Gate & Garden" is about her vagina.

Oh, and "my walls are flaming." lol

I'm sure there are others that I can't think of right now.

Well, I can't say that I "hate" or "dislike" any of her lyrics actually. Of course, there's some much better songs and lyrics she has written but I really can't say right now which one I dislike most...

That line, the bolded one, is actually the line that made me write my own songs basicly...so no, that's a good line ^^ I think, if you are a singer/writer, write your own songs!

[Dowie100]

"It's like a river, it's never ending" -- Illume



Yeah that one always bugs me, every single river in the world ends lol!

[Dodfather]

Woah - this thread has run and run! Great stuff guys. I had mercifully forgotten about That Made Me Stronger (the worst track on Trouble In Shangri-La) and Silver Girl (ditto for Say You Will)...BAD lyrics!

[blinker12]

LOVE this thread, especially markolas' post on Page 1! Hilarious.

Here are a couple that haven't been mentioned yet:

"I should have turned away and ran" ("Smile at You")
It should be "run"!! Hearing that is like having a stone in my shoe.

"Some carry a stiletto in their garter/Along with everything else/That they carry" ("Alice")
This makes me laugh. It's really funny.

"So she stood there in the hallway frozen/In the dark/And her heart broke down/She cried/She fell to the floor/One tear..." etc. etc. ("Love Is")
This language is purpler than purple.

I also second the lines mentioned from "Jane," "Silver Girl," "Not Make Believe" and others. "Not Make Believe" is tragic because I love the music/arrangement for that song, but the words are a string of botched cliches ("They both rush by/Like a thief in the night" - should be thieVES! Another grammar fail!)

[SapphireSister]

Yeah that one always bugs me, every single river in the world ends lol!
In Stevie's defense, no it doesn't. Haven't you ever been to a water park where they have the circle river and you can put your raft in and float round and round for hours? That's what she's talking about people, a circular river! Man-made or not it's still a river that's never ending. Go on with your bad self, Stevie! :p

[markolas]

'Ooh, you're consistent. Hey, and that's good' (Love Is Like a River)

That whole song is a lyrical clusterf*ck.

[APerfectLie]

Yeah that one always bugs me, every single river in the world ends lol!

But as Hermann Hesse once said, "The river is everywhere." "...at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once" but it is constantly flowing, never ending.

[cliffdweller]

"It makes no difference at all cause I wear boots all summer long" (it's more funy than bad IMO)

I really like this lyric because it immortalizes one of her most iconic features. I also like the sentiment, it's like she's saying, I do what I want and I'm unique and I don't care what anyone thinks. Rock on gold dust woman...

[michelej1]

I agree with most of these, but I actually like "the sky is not crying, the sky is blue." I think it captures how everything goes black for you when you're down. Because of what's inside, you see a storm, even on a clear day. Misery loves company, so you imagine the sky is crying with you. Cerebrally, you know better.
It's not crying. It's indifferent. Nature is impervious to your pain. Life goes on for the world around you, even if it's ending in your heart.

Michele

[equeen102289]

I am amazed that so many of you like "the sky is not crying" line. I cringe every time I hear it.

I agree with whoever mentioned the opening of Bella Donna. If the vocal and track weren't so good, I don't know if I could get over her use of the pony and phoney rhyme.

[GypsySorcerer]

In Stevie's defense, no it doesn't. Haven't you ever been to a water park where they have the circle river and you can put your raft in and float round and round for hours? That's what she's talking about people, a circular river! Man-made or not it's still a river that's never ending. Go on with your bad self, Stevie! :p

I think you're giving her too much credit. :laugh::laugh:

Seriously, though, I think the river line is a lazy metaphor (or is it simile?) ;) :shrug:

[Silver Springs]

I think you're giving her too much credit. :laugh::laugh:

Seriously, though, I think the river line is a lazy metaphor (or is it simile?) ;) :shrug:

She's saying it's like, so that's a simile :)

[Dowie100]

In Stevie's defense, no it doesn't. Haven't you ever been to a water park where they have the circle river and you can put your raft in and float round and round for hours? That's what she's talking about people, a circular river! Man-made or not it's still a river that's never ending. Go on with your bad self, Stevie! :p

I stand, or rather sit on a float of some sort sailing round the circular river, corrected :)

[Josh2003]

I also really dislike, from Smile at You, "I should have turned away and ran...as fast as I can."

Shouldn't it be "as fast as I could"? Or something else...past-tense?

[APerfectLie]

I also really dislike, from Smile at You, "I should have turned away and ran...as fast as I can."

Shouldn't it be "as fast as I could"? Or something else...past-tense?

I don't think you could say that to Bob Dylan!

[Richard B]

'Ooh, you're consistent. Hey, and that's good' (Love Is Like a River)

Actually that lyric is from the ridiculous 'Listen To The Rain' song.

[SapphireSister]

Can I just be a Chiffonhead here for a moment and say none of Stevie's lyrics are bad, for she is an artist and true art is to be left to interpretation. I'm sure she means something in every lyric she's ever penned and I can see beauty in all of them! It may not make sense to us or be grammatically correct but Stevie wrote it, dammit! LMFAO I take this **** waaaay too seriously.

Now that's exactly what I would say to Bob Dylan!

[petep9000]

"She depends upon her music like a husband"

"I have known this much longer than I've known you"

"Disaster was the only thing that I could depend on"


but the grand prize for cringe-worthy goes to:

"And the angel said, "Well you must have had a dream...
And you remember it..."Till the dream followed through...
Till the -- end of the dream...and the dream came true
When I want something...I get it"

note: probably not a coincidence that these are OSOTM tracks too..

[tilthefirefades]

but the grand prize for cringe-worthy goes to:

"And the angel said, "Well you must have had a dream...
And you remember it..."Till the dream followed through...
Till the -- end of the dream...and the dream came true
When I want something...I get it"

:lol: Absolutely!!

/endthread

[sorcerer999]

I think we shouldn't forget one of her most famous lyrics...

"Thunder ONLY HAPPENS when it's raining..."

...which is simply just not true!

Maybe not a bad lyric, but a slightly ridiculous one!

[jellyman10]

As Christine McVie said, Stevie Nicks writes a LOT of songs, and some of them are rubbish. An alternative approach would be to not write so much, but then she'd be like one of those 'priests of nothing', who have a talent and don't use it.

For me, it goes with the territory that the more you write, the more you generate at BOTH extremes of the quality scale. So there's a direct relationship between how many great lines SN has written, and how many pish ones.

Some good laughs in this thread, tho! :D

[GypsySorcerer]

I don't know how I forgot this one:

Everything all around me is electric now
But I haven't burned a candle in a real long time

[AnthonyMI]

between "my walls are flaming" and the "Gate and Garden" being about her Vagjayjay I am starting to think Stevie has had some serious gynecological problems or a yeast infection!

[holidayroad]

:nod:Actually that lyric is from the ridiculous 'Listen To The Rain' song.

:laugh::laugh::laugh: I actually knew that. I have no idea why I said it was a lyric to LILAR!!!!!

[ButterCookie]

As Christine McVie said, Stevie Nicks writes a LOT of songs, and some of them are rubbish. An alternative approach would be to not write so much, but then she'd be like one of those 'priests of nothing', who have a talent and don't use it.

For me, it goes with the territory that the more you write, the more you generate at BOTH extremes of the quality scale. So there's a direct relationship between how many great lines SN has written, and how many pish ones.

Some good laughs in this thread, tho! :D

"Stevie's words can be pretty obscure at best, you know. I mean, sometimes I didn't know what she was singing about but in her mind, those words make complete sense and I often used to wonder what on earth she was talking about. But then, you didn't care because the words just sounded so good"

[markolas]

I dunno, I kind of like that Stevie wrote a song about her cooter.

[Artemis]

The "garden" part of Gate and Garden now produces some... weird images :eek:

[AnthonyMI]

The "garden" part of Gate and Garden now produces some... weird images :eek:



indeed. Now that she has had the "change" her "Garden" is all dried up!

[kokoro]

Suddenly Gate and Garden makes a whole lot more sense. And if we're going to look at it that way, maybe it's about giving up her v-card! "Someone steals it away..."

[LiquidDiamonds]

Suddenly Gate and Garden makes a whole lot more sense. And if we're going to look at it that way, maybe it's about giving up her v-card! "Someone steals it away..."

These lyrics have a whole new meaning:
"Do I love you
Well I always did everynight
Nobody knows nothin' 'bout it
They know nothing 'bout it
They know nothing' 'bout it"

[michelej1]

So to the red rose grows the passion . . .

Michele

[michelle2677]

"Such words to her over the phone" -- Thousand Days

"Well I talked to my famous friend last night; My third day up...well, his second nighter." -- Two Kinds of Love


:distress: :eek:

don't hate on thousand days and TKOL, KRISTA :mad:


long way to go

she says "help me, help her, help him, too"


really?


one more big time rock and roll star

I told you last night - or did you tell me?
I think that it was me and I know that you heard it


&

I was anyone's fantasy


sable on blond

in silence she says "excalibur"

and it hurts my everything to put that last one because that is one of my favorite stevie songs :distress:

[kokoro]

sable on blond

in silence she says "excalibur"

and it hurts my everything to put that last one because that is one of my favorite stevie songs :distress:

I love Sable on Blond too, and that line has always stuck out in a bad way in an otherwise awesome song. Then I read Stevie explaining it, and it actually made a lot of sense:

"But the song really is about learning to live with Stevie, learn to be a stranger, learn to live in silence, learn not to call on everybody else to get you out of everything or make everybody else pay for what you're going through, because you've chosen this life. Like Arthur learned with Excalibur, you do not ever call on your most precious magic unless you are literally out of other choices."

I don't really cringe when I hear it anymore, but it's still a weird, random line that needs more context within the song.

[GypsySorcerer]

don't hate on thousand days and TKOL, KRISTA :mad:

TKOL hurts my everything. I like parts of Thousand Days -- especially that line "You never cared about time before my friend."


one more big time rock and roll star

I told you last night - or did you tell me?
I think that it was me and I know that you heard it


&

I was anyone's fantasy




Those are cringeworthy. I'll add "undercover music lover" to that as well.

[Artemis]

I have to go with When I See You Again, really, if only for the awful "baby baby baby" rubbish.

Although, Stevie Nicks should never sing the words Chimpanzee or Laundromat. In my mind, Stevie doesn't even know what a Laundromat is ;_;

[markolas]

So to the red rose grows the passion . . .

Exactly. I mean, could it *be* any more obvious?

[vivfox]

Although, Stevie Nicks should never sing the words Chimpanzee or Laundromat. In my mind, Stevie doesn't even know what a Laundromat is ;_;


When I lived in Az. I worked in a restaurant with a girl named Julie. When she found out I loved Stevie she related a story to me of how she used to work at a dry cleaners before she worked with me. She said Stevie used to bring her own dry cleaning in all the time. Julie didn't give a fu&k about our girl so I believed her.

[louielouie2000]

I dunno, I kind of like that Stevie wrote a song about her cooter.

THANK YOU for using the word 'cooter' :laugh: That seriously made my day! :lol:

Stevie's 'tang must be pretty frightening if it "scares you to death" :eek:

[Nikolaj]

I love 'Beautiful Child' amongst the most of many songs by her that I love.
But I kind of wish she had phrased one line that has struck some as unintentionally funny differently: "You say it will be harder in the morning"--
Sounds like a guy who wants her to 'just go' until it/he is harder in the morning.
Then, hurry on back, please.
It's still a perfect song, anyway.

[APerfectLie]

I love 'Beautiful Child' amongst the most of many songs by her that I love.
But I kind of wish she had phrased one line that has struck some as unintentionally funny differently: "You say it will be harder in the morning"--
Sounds like a guy who wants her to 'just go' until it/he is harder in the morning.
Then, hurry on back, please.
It's still a perfect song, anyway.

Which reminds me of:

"Every night you do not come."

Maybe her vag does scare people to death!

[SapphireSister]

STOP TALKING ABOUT STEVIE'S COOCH!! :p

[kokoro]

Maybe her vag does scare people to death!

It couldn't have scared people that bad, seeing as how she's probably gotten laid more times than all of us combined. Some people have all the luck. :p

[darklinensuit]

I’ll take off my cape for you
I’ll take down my hair for you



Some carry a stiletto in their garter along with everything else that they carry



One tear slid across her lips
To the corner of her mouth
And dropped to the floor



You feel good
I said it's funny that you understood
I knew you would
When you were good
You were very, very good


(Maybe the winner: )
Very little love exists through the rain and the fog
In her always hanging mirror :rolleyes::distress:
(I always thought the word was "mist" but every lyrics site including the Nicksfix says "mirror." Either way it stinks.)



- Jake

[jellyman10]

"Stevie's words can be pretty obscure at best, you know. I mean, sometimes I didn't know what she was singing about but in her mind, those words make complete sense and I often used to wonder what on earth she was talking about. But then, you didn't care because the words just sounded so good"

Thanks for reminding me of that quote. It's a nice one. The one I had in mind, tho, was this, apparently from 'The Record' in 1982:

"Stevie’s very prolific," McVie notes. “She writes constantly, and all her songs are like babies to her, even though some of them are rubbish. When I write, I sit down and work on an idea until it’s finished, but Stevie cranks out songs all the time."

The whole interview (it's with just Lindsey and Chris, I think) is in the Blue Letter archives, here (hope this link works).
http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.php?page=index_v2&id=184&c=11

[ButterCookie]

Thanks for reminding me of that quote. It's a nice one. The one I had in mind, tho, was this, apparently from 'The Record' in 1982:

"Stevie’s very prolific," McVie notes. “She writes constantly, and all her songs are like babies to her, even though some of them are rubbish. When I write, I sit down and work on an idea until it’s finished, but Stevie cranks out songs all the time."

The whole interview (it's with just Lindsey and Chris, I think) is in the Blue Letter archives, here (hope this link works).
http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.php?page=index_v2&id=184&c=11

Oh, I know, I wasn't trying to correct you, I agree with both you and Christine :D True, some of Stevie's words would give an English teacher a heart attack but if they mean something to her, I think that is what counts. This thread is a laugh and I know it's lighthearted :thumbsup:

The link does work and thankyou! I'd not seen that interview before :xoxo:

[APerfectLie]

It couldn't have scared people that bad, seeing as how she's probably gotten laid more times than all of us combined. Some people have all the luck. :p

True! But she also had a huge turnover rate ;)

[kokoro]

True! But she also had a huge turnover rate ;)

Well, there must have been some reason Lindsey couldn't get over her for all those years. And he did say the sex was great... :D

[APerfectLie]

Well, there must have been some reason Lindsey couldn't get over her for all those years. And he did say the sex was great... :D

Because she made the best Hamburger Helper he could find!

[Dodfather]

Because she made the best Hamburger Helper he could find!

Great sex and cooking for me... that'll work!

[TerraRhiannon]

I love the song Fall From Grace, but I don't really like the lyric "Not all the kings horses, not all the kings men could put it back together."

I almost always think she's going to say 'put it back together again.' Lol, and then I'm like no, it's not a nursery rhyme..

[APerfectLie]

I love the song Fall From Grace, but I don't really like the lyric "Not all the kings horses, not all the kings men could put it back together."

I almost always think she's going to say 'put it back together again.' Lol, and then I'm like no, it's not a nursery rhyme..

Well then you will love this one! (I actually really love this song, but I get your angst toward the lyrics). Here are two different demos of it tho, because I think both are amazing! Especially the line, "I remember when I was the only one you'd ever love."

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[TerraRhiannon]

Well then you will love this one! (I actually really love this song, but I get your angst toward the lyrics). Here are two different demos of it tho, because I think both are amazing! Especially the line, "I remember when I was the only one you'd ever love."



I actually like this song, this is actually one of those rare ones I have never heard until now of Stevie's! Maybe it was the title of the song.. :laugh:

[michelej1]

When I lived in Az. I worked in a restaurant with a girl named Julie. When she found out I loved Stevie she related a story to me of how she used to work at a dry cleaners before she worked with me. She said Stevie used to bring her own dry cleaning in all the time. Julie didn't give a fu&k about our girl so I believed her.

I'd check all the pockets for $100 bills.

Michele

[pwyll]

I could never stand the whole "moments, minutes, seconds" crap from "Whole Lotta Trouble".

WTF???? It was even better to hear how many times that was screwed up in concert!!! LOL

[APerfectLie]

I could never stand the whole "moments, minutes, seconds" crap from "Whole Lotta Trouble".

WTF???? It was even better to hear how many times that was screwed up in concert!!! LOL

OMG that drives me insane! Not that the lyric is bad, but just how she always changes it! It makes it impossible to sing along to because you never know which one is going to fly out of her mouth!

[aleuzzi]

I like the couplet "I'll take off my cape for you / I'll let down my hair for you" from I Sing for the Things.


To me, the worst lyrics are in Welcome to the Room, Sara.

[APerfectLie]

I like the couplet "I'll take off my cape for you / I'll let down my hair for you" from I Sing for the Things.


To me, the worst lyrics are in Welcome to the Room, Sara.

I disagree. "When you hang up that phone, well you cease to exist." ****ing love it!

[UndoingTheLaces]

I wouldn't say it's a bad lyric but I always hated the chorus to Rooms on Fire.

"Well maybe I'm just thinking that the ROOMS are all on fire, every time you walk in the ROOM". Using the word "room" twice in the same sentence always irks me.

[Maxd9]

My least favourite lyrics are in 'Blue Denim'. I think the song is Ok, but I can't handle couplets like "I saw him the other day/ Saw him again yesterday" and "I turned away so he couldn't see/ I turned away it could never be."

I like the last stanza quite a bit, but the rest is a bit too mediocre for me.

[louielouie2000]

"Well you know me better than I know myself. Can you write this for me? He says no, write your songs yourself"

Speaks for itself why it's so bad, but I also just don't like the literalness of it. Stevie lyrics are supposed to be foggy, indirect, and lacking in specificity so that they can be interpreted in hundreds of different ways making them applicable to most any quandary. That Made Me Stronger as a whole is just so blunt, to the point, and lacking in mystery and thus, beauty. I like the fact Stevie was so empowered by her encounter with Tom Petty which lead her to write this song, but I just wish she could have written about it in a bit more oblique fashion.

[Silver Springs]

"Every Hour Of Fear I Spend, My Body Tries To Cry" always, without fail, makes me cringe.

[APerfectLie]

"Well you know me better than I know myself. Can you write this for me? He says no, write your songs yourself"

Speaks for itself why it's so bad, but I also just don't like the literalness of it. Stevie lyrics are supposed to be foggy, indirect, and lacking in specificity so that they can be interpreted in hundreds of different ways making them applicable to most any quandary. That Made Me Stronger as a whole is just so blunt, to the point, and lacking in mystery and thus, beauty. I like the fact Stevie was so empowered by her encounter with Tom Petty which lead her to write this song, but I just wish she could have written about it in a bit more oblique fashion.

It does have some redeeming factors tho. "Dreams reoccur in my solitude, breaking my heart, injuring my mood. With all of the things that I thought I knew, it was you." "All those tears that we shed, don't call me when you're lonely." "Once more I tell the shadows of my soul to stay back. Everything has changed now and I don't want to go back and nothing you can say can change my mind" are among my favorites. So even tho it is a very literal song, I think the chorus is rather catchy and it does have some good lines scattered about! However, I know I am in the minority of people who enjoy this song.

And just FYI, thanks to you I went and listened to this song and have now spent the past 30 minutes listening to it on repeat! I guess I am just strange.

[GypsySorcerer]

^^^^ We did a "reverse survivor" thing several years ago, and "That Made Me Stronger" was voted the worst Stevie song ever.

The lyrics are bad, but I think the music is ****ing terrible. Everything about that song is clunky and awkward to me. I do concede that the "dreams reoccur in my solitude" is its one saving grace.

[APerfectLie]

^^^^ We did a "reverse survivor" thing several years ago, and "That Made Me Stronger" was voted the worst Stevie song ever.

The lyrics are bad, but I think the music is ****ing terrible. Everything about that song is clunky and awkward to me. I do concede that the "dreams reoccur in my solitude" is its one saving grace.

How depressing! I would think her WORST song would have to be Cathouse Blues. And worst released, possibly Listen To The Rain.

[GypsySorcerer]

How depressing! I would think her WORST song would have to be Cathouse Blues. And worst released, possibly Listen To The Rain.

I don't think demos were included.

There are several contenders, IMO. :laugh: Listen to the Rain, Greta, Desert Angel...

[APerfectLie]

I don't think demos were included.

There are several contenders, IMO. :laugh: Listen to the Rain, Greta, Desert Angel...

:eek: Blasphemy!

[kokoro]

"Every Hour Of Fear I Spend, My Body Tries To Cry" always, without fail, makes me cringe.

You did not just include any lyrics from Storms! The only possible explanation is that you're suffering from a terrible brain fever that's influecning your judgement. ;)

:eek: Blasphemy!

No way! Blasphemy is you saying Cathouse Blues is her worst song. Touché, the cat sleeps alone!

[mitzo]

Really bad lyrics peppered throughout Street Angel - Blue Denim is always a cringer for me from start to finish, the title track with rag dolls falling down stairs, the phantom of the opera and so in in Listen to the Rain, etc..
I Miss You is one of my all-time faves but I had to work to get beyond the invisible girl being her name, plus all the you/he shifts in the chorus parts.
Whoow we were off the wall in Paper Doll is bad.

[TerraRhiannon]

I Miss You is one of my all-time faves but I had to work to get beyond the invisible girl being her name, plus all the you/he shifts in the chorus parts.


I was listening to I Miss YOu when I read your post, (and still am), and I totally noticed the chorus thing too, and I never did before :p haha. Her tenses are so messed up, but that makes me love her even more, hehe :xoxo:

[sorcerer999]

Even though I love the song, I always cringe at the lyric "...but I like some kind of...Time Life edition, tradition, competition being..."

Embarrassing, in my little opinion.

[LittleCharmer]

'You hate waiting.. You say 'I hate this'..'

^ this irritates me.
... Actually, this whole song gets on my wick.

'Well it's just another test.. Well the two of us, well we must be.. Well don't you know.. Well I talked to my famous friend last night (?!)..Well the two of us.. Well I say well there's no way out..'

WELLY WELLY WELLY WELLY WELL!

[TerraRhiannon]

'You hate waiting.. You say 'I hate this'..'

^ this irritates me.
... Actually, this whole song gets on my wick.

'Well it's just another test.. Well the two of us, well we must be.. Well don't you know.. Well I talked to my famous friend last night (?!)..Well the two of us.. Well I say well there's no way out..'

WELLY WELLY WELLY WELLY WELL!

HAHAHA. Let it all out!!

I'm right there with you.:nod:

[Dodfather]

"Well you know me better than I know myself. Can you write this for me? He says no, write your songs yourself"



Uuugh - That Made Me Stronger sucks. It's the one truly BAD track on that album.

[PenguinHead]

Yeah that one always bugs me, every single river in the world ends lol!

I think, in stevie-speak, when she references the river never ending, she may be referring to the flow or movement (0f the water) in the river. Just a thought...

Stevie has unique and odd mannerisms in her lyric compositions. The effect of which is either poetic, expressive and intriguing or vague, disjointed, and pedestrian.

[Silver Springs]

You did not just include any lyrics from Storms! The only possible explanation is that you're suffering from a terrible brain fever that's influecning your judgement. ;)

Haha. I could blame it on a brain fever, or a simple case of amnaesia when it comes to remembering how to percieve correctly. But the simple fact is, the line bugs the hell out of me. "My body tries to cry"? What in the hell does that mean? I try to picture in my head what she means, and all I can see is her slipping into convulsions. It's not a romantic/tragically romantic image to me at all. In fact it makes me a little nauseaus.

[TerraRhiannon]

I try to picture in my head what she means, and all I can see is her slipping into convulsions. It's not a romantic/tragically romantic image to me at all. In fact it makes me a little nauseaus.


I laughed out loud at this. :) awesome lyric fail on Stevie's part.

[David]

one more big time rock and roll star

I told you last night - or did you tell me?
I think that it was me and I know that you heard it

HahahahahaAaaa!! You folks are killing me.

I know most of you think of all these as bad Stevie Nicks lyrics, but I just think of them as emblematic Stevie Nicks lyrics. I've always seen Stevie as a kind of William McGonagall in rock music.

[jellyman10]

I've always seen Stevie as a kind of William McGonagall in rock music.

This is why the Ledge is the only internet forum I have ever joined.

Loz
(from Dundee, Scotland)