Time for a fav lyric or passage thread.
 

I love:

The beautiful
and the sensitive
and the oh so very young

We are adapting to your silence
I can live here without you
at least I am learnign
But I cannot live without your songs

AND

You can consume all the beauty in the room baby

AND

She depends on her music like a husband
and she knows its no good to fall in love again

I love:

So you look to your guardian angel

AND

Oh you know...the dream keeps coming
Even when you forget to feel

AND

And the dream says I want you
And the dream is gone
So she stays up nights on end
Well at least there is a
dream left

I love the lines

Maybe I am calmer now
Maybe things are fine
Maybe I made the whole thing up
Maybe this isn't a lie
Maybe the reson I say these things is to bring you back alive
Maybe I fought this long and this hard to just make sure you survive

I always think of a certain someone when I listen to this song.

Eck,

I always end up saying the same things again and again.

But really, all of Angel. You really can't just quote one or two sentences, because all of the words are enchanting.
I've shaken your faith in me. No, you've shaken my faith in everything else.

Man and woman on a star stream. In the middle of a snow dream.

Come over. Let me put you on ice.


Also, much less popular is Paper Dolls:

Yesterday I was fascinated with somebody else.

We were mirrors of our former selves.

And even if you did miss me, you never let me know.
You prefer to be just a little bit in and out of love with me.
And not to scream and shout, you prefer to be just a little bit in and out of agony.

Michele

These are a few of my favorites.:)

"No Spoken Word"

Well I either say too much, or I...
I don't say enough
Well I play too hard
Still I'm not tough enough
What was it she wanted
They say she had everything

"Beautiful Child"

I'm old enough
To love you from afar

"Gypsy"

Lightning strikes,
maybe once, maybe twice

"Rock A Little"

Sometimes it rages...rock a little
Even when it's calm...still rock a little
Just like the sea...I rock a little
Say it was just like me
Still rock a little

Sorceror

I am tired
I am thirsty hey-
I am wild eyed...
In my misery yeah yeah...

Miss You

Paris to Rome
London to Paris
Always Goodbye
Nearly couldn't bare it
Her heart settles down
She's back on that staircase -
On the way up to her place

Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You

And they ask her, about the men in her life - and they do ask her.
She says, "Well, they were poets, priests of nothing, legends..."

(Thanks for posting this thread, I really like it...)

For me, I think the line that's always gotten me the most is "all the same, all the same, all the same" from Rhiannon.

It feels like a universal truth to me, so much so that I have it tattooed across my shoulders, lol. I actually have a whole tattoo planned out for that, but I haven't found the right artist to draw the rest yet, so right now it's just the words.

"Sometimes to be near you.. is to be unable to hear you." Edge of Seventeen

"Don't you know that the stars are a part of us?" Bella Donna

"I'm tall enough to reach for the stars. I'm old enough to love you, from afar." Beautiful Child

"I only say what you want to hear, when there is conflict I stay clear.." Love Changes

"Maybe your intention was more than I could do.." (I like it more when it's.. maybe MY intention..) Stand Back

"My first mistake was to smile at you.." Smile At You

I could go on all night..

"Well I've been afraid of changing,
cause I built my life around you,
but time makes you bolder,
children get older,
I'm getting older too"
Landslide

"Baby..., you should see me now
Baby..., you can't save me now,
you can't do it now"
and
"Baby..., you should see me now
Baby..., you don't feel me now
Baby..., you should see me now
Baby..., you can't save me now"
Gold Dust Woman


"I was born in the desert, so I know how it feels there"
"but then something happened in the desert, something broke the stars into pieces"
Desert Angel ♥

"I could cry in the middle of the night, it wouldn't matter at all"
Baby Doll

"All the beautiful worlds I've seen so far have all fallen down"
All The Beautiful Worlds


"Yesterday I was fascinated with somebody else"
"He says well I have forgotten you and your beautiful eyes,
we were off the wall, we were mirrors of our former selves"
Paper Doll

"I've come to know this world of changing faces,
I can't fight the world and I can't change it"
"My heart was broken"
"Fly up to your castle in the sky"
(from the 'angry' demo, just love the way she sings those lines)
Smile At You

"You're so dirty"
Crash :lol::p

So my pic in the corner is my penquin tattoo that I drew a few months ago and had tattooed... I was wondering what to put around him... I feel like he needs something... Since your idea was so great I was gonna ask for your opinion... Maybe, "All the same, All the Same, All the Same-Unleashed" But in block words all around him... I don't know... LOL Help :shrug: :D

alice:

Oh, no, you cannot tell a gypsy
Ooh, that she's no longer a member


HSML:

Still the same old story
What price glory


I can't wait:

Well, she dances around in a circle
Well, she's got that feeling now
Blame it on something at first sight
Put the blame on me if you want to
To be continued


No Spoken Word:

For one night
Well, baby, you fill the night with
The wind and the rain and the water
For one night
Well, just for one night
You know that
Well, that disastrous sound

Now it will make me wiser
He says, "And it will make you look"
She says, "Look out!
I don't know how to learn
From the pages of a book
Well, I either say too much
Or I, I don't say enough
Well, I play too hard
Still I'm not tough enough"
What was it she wanted?
They say she had everything

Come around tonight indecent
Well...baby
Come around tonight
Indecent, baby, well
You fill the room
With the rain and the wind and the water

If you tell me one more time
"Baby, take it easy"
Well, you won't see me ever again

Some people walk down the darkened streets
With the faith of a child
And so go the faithless
But after a while she says...


Rock a Little:

Then you knew her...funny little dancer

She's home now
And she says, "I've gone far beyond that song"
Rock and roll ballerina
Where else would she go?


That is how songs are written
Stories are told, rumours are started


Sable on blonde:

Do you hold that dream
In your hands each night...this time
In your hands each night...this time


Stand back:

No one looked as I walked by
Just an invitation would have been just fine


Joan of arc:

And they came in tired
And they said "Tired was the end of the line"
Well, I can't save you
Joan of Arc...this time

Turn to the wall, baby
Turn it to the wall, now
Turn it to the wall
Joan of Arc


Beautiful child:

You say it will be harder in the morning
I wait for you to say, "Just go"
Your hands held mine so few hours
And I'm not a child anymore


Sara:

I think I had met my match
He was singing
And undoing...and undoing the laces
Undoing the laces


and I could go on forever and ever.

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

THINK ABOUT IT:
I am just one...small...part...
Of forever..."
Falling...star..star
Catcher

:)

Favorite lyrics would be:

"Take on the situation, but not the torment, you know it's not as bad as it seems" ~ "Think About It" (my mantra!)

"And the days go by, doing nothing about them..." ~ "If You Ever Did Believe"

"The clouds never expect it when it rains, but the sea changes color, but the sea does not change" ~ "Edge Of Seventeen" (this says so much on many levels)

"Sometimes it rages, rock a little, even when it's calm...rock a little" ~ "Rock A Little" (this was my quote in my high school yearbook in '89)

"Maybe I am calmer now, maybe things are fine, maybe I made the whole thing up, maybe this isn't a lie..." ~ "Fall From Grace"

I could go on and on

Haha, I cannot tell you what tattoo to get. It is your skin, not mine. I would avoid the "unleashed," though, unless you are overly attached to it, since it's just a weird word they tacked onto the tour.

If you want to put words around him, just choose the ones that resonate with YOU and you won't mind looking at for the rest of your life. Most people can't figure out why my shoulders say what they do, but that's okay, because "all the same" feels true to me.

On some days, I consider another Mac universal truth, "IT'S NOT THAT FUNNY, IS IT?" ;-)

Typically, I get a tattoo after each of my mac concerts. Nothing that is too specific to the mac ( or stevie.) Just things that rock me... "All the same..." is a great quote and I love it. "Unleashed" is something that a lot of people say about me and my personality. (Maybe another reason I am so excited about this tour...) I am not sure. I just wanted another tattoo fan's idea... I think the lyrics that are really intense for me are, "I am tired, I am thirsty. I am wild eyed in my misery." I just don't know how I could make that work around my penguin, lol

How many tattoos do you have? :) I really want to get a tattoo at some point too, probably something Mac or Stevie related.

#1 "Shangri-La" was my first tattoo, after the TISL tour. #2 King Tutt's Symbol for Strength and Prosperity... Inspired By the SYW tour and the Tutt exhibit we went to around that same period of time. #3 is a bee-hive 50'S chick that I got around the time of the Gold Dust tour. #4 Is Mac the Pimp-Posh-Penguin I drew before I met Stevie in Detroit. Now, not all of them were directly because of Fleetwood Mac, but chances are FM was playing while I got it, or there was a concert coming up... Something FM related, on some level. (If any of that makes sense, lol)

Maybe you can get the words done elsewhere, instead of around the penguin, and let the penguin stand on his own? I like those lines, too, but I agree on not being sure how to make them work around your penguin.

"Look at me with daggers, it won't do you any good" - Freedom

"Drownin, in the sea of love, where everyone would love to drown" - Sara

"Heartbreak of the moment, is not endless, your fortune is you life's love" - Think About It [This song is really my song. It always makes me feel better in any mood. I know she wrote it for Chrisitne McVie, but I'm feelin that the song fits me perfectly (and I'm a Christine :) )]

All of Angel <3

"There are too many flowers to cut down for the love I had for your life" - Running Through the Garden

"Maybe I'm just thinking that the rooms are all on fire, every time that you walk in the room, well there is magic all around you, if I do say so myself, I have known this much longer than I've known you" - Rooms on Fire

"When I want something, I get it" -Whole Lotta Trouble

"I still see your bright eyes"
"She was just a wish"
[That whole last part of Extended Gypsy :)]

And-
"If I was a child, and the child was enough, enough for me to love, enough to love" -Gypsy

"You can dedicate your pain to him" -Thrown Down

all of "Alice"

"I think I had met my match" - Sara

"Its only right you should play it the way you feel it" - Dreams (actually all of this song)

"I did not deal with the road, and I did not deal with you I know" - Storms

"Outside the rain and the heart skips a beat
So you're lonely
Creature of the night it's been almost a week
Can you love me only"

I've always been partial to:

Wait a minute, Baby
Stay with me awhile
Said you'd give me Light
But you never told me 'bout the fire

And:

Sleepless child,
There's so little time
Your eyes say yes
But you don't say yes,
I wish that you were mine

And:

Intense silence
As she walked in the room
Her black robes trailing
Sister of the moon . . .

"The dream keeps comming even when you forget to feel"

"So we both play, it get's under your skin,and we both love the road, but the roads are different"

"well suddenly, there was no one left standing in the hall/in a flood of tears that no one ever really heard fall at all/well I went searching for an answer up the stairs and down the hall/ I did not hear an answer but I did hear the call of the nightbird"

"There is magic all around you everytime you walk in the room"

"I am dealing with a man, when away from me stays deep inside my heart"

"And The lady's feeling just like the moon that she loved"

"Fever goes higher what can you do? Wild In the darkest places of your mind, that's when I needed you"

"When I walked into your house, I knew I never want to leave"

"I'll take off my cape for you, I'll take down my hair for you, anything you want me to do my love"

The whole song of "Smile at You"! Hell yeah!

"If I had my life to live over, I would never dream"

There are more, but not enough room.:wavey:

Okay, all of these rock... LOL I love each one of them! Great taste. Perfect choices!!!

All of Crystal, Angel, Beautiful Child and Rhiannon...and others probably, but I couldn't choose just one line for these ones.

"Like a heartbeat drives you mad in the stillness of remembering what you had, and what you lost"

"There's a heartbeat and it never really died" (this is definitely beautiful and full of sense)

"I have no fear, I have only love", in fact, Faith.

"You're not like other people, you do what you want to", for some reason, I love this line =)

"Rulers make bad lovers, you better put your kingdom up for sale"

(Every single line from Blue Lamp..)

"Sunflowers and your face fascinate me, you love only the tallest tree"

"Sometimes to be near you, is to be enable to hear you, my love"

"Look in my eyes, touch my face, baby, there's no one who can take my place"
and "Love is a word that some entertain, if you find it, you have won the game"

"So I'm never gonna see you deep inside my heart, but I see your shadow against, shadow against, shadow agains the wa-aaaall sshhh, baby I see your shadow against the wall"

"Fire on fire, rain on my face, fever goes higher, what can you do? Wild in the darkest places of your mind, that's where I needed you, where I needed you the most..."

"No one knows how I feel, what I say unless you read between my lines"

"There is no beauty without my beast...la belle, la bête.."

"Yesterday I was fascinated by somebody else"

And on, and on...

Papaya still haunts me

you know, i went from the beginnin gof this thread and read all your choices...i started crying...like balling. Stevie is such a prolific songwriter and there will NEVER be another one like her.

as for my choices.....oh sweet lord i can't pick just a couple! Each one is connected to me in someway...but i jsut love "Miranda is taking the stars down....etc..." because Stevie is saying my name

The whole of Landslide.


You fell in love when I was only ten
The years dissapeared
Much has gone by since then
I bite my lip, you can send me away
You touch
I have no choice
I have to stay
I had to stay
...
I'm not a child anymore
I'm tall enough to reach for the stars
I'm old enough to love you from afar
Too trusting yes?
But then women usually are


Give to me your leather, take from me my lace


I have never been a blue calm sea, I have always been a storm


Don't blame it on me, blame it on my wild heart


She is like a cat in the dark and then she is the darkness/Dreams unwind, love's a state of mind

Then go with her
You know that you want to
Well, you could use a dreamer, I think
Somewhere on your side
Then maybe if that woman could make you crazy
Oh, did she call out
Did she say, Please save me
Save me tonight
Tonight



And then he sees her coming
Heartbeats on the wind
Considers slowing down
But then he could never win



Sometimes it rages
Rock a little
Even when it’s calm
Rock a little



Fire on fire
Rain on my face
Fever goes higher
What can you do?
Wild in the darkest places in your mind
That’s where I needed you



So I try to say Goodbye, my friend
I’d like to leave you with something warm
But never have I been a blue calm sea
I have always been a storm



Oh, but it was dark out
And I held the cards
I was the dealer
And it wasn’t hard



I play the part
But then all of us do
And I do it so well
As I do it to you
In this town full of strangers
In this town full of fools
Venus doesn’t glitter when she stands next to you
When you’re waltzing through stardom
You miss what you lose



Fingers find the ivory keys and a song
Begins to begin like a wolf on the run



Keep that fury deep inside you
And wish it to end
And when your friends start asking you why
You just say nothing



Don't listen to her
Listen through her




- Jake

Me too! I've read through it twice now and the tears are still running down my cheek...

My first response to this thread was "favorite lyric"? That's like asking me to pick my favorite child and I knew it would be a difficult and time consuming task so I decided to think about it (no pun intended) for the last few hours before I responded. Keep in mine this could change at any time. It seems as though any situation can present itself and there is always a Stevie lyric to help me make sense of it all. Isn't that truly magical?
With that being said, here are just a few:

"Timeless is the creature who is not wise
and timeless is the prisioner in disguise"

"Come in out of the darkness"

"It's like bombay sapphires
Hey I can take you higher
Whatever you desire
I can mend your heart"

"I turned around and the water was closing around me"

"Everything happens for a reason. Stay clear"

"And the summer became fall
I was not ready for the winter
It makes no difference at all
cause I wear boots all summer long"

"You cannot know a dream till' you've known a nightmare"

"Undercover music lover and an art lover like me
There were candles, crystals, I was anyone's fantasy"

"Was it a thorn in your side
Something you can't hide
Something you don't touch
Because it hurts too much"

"Come over. Let me put you on ice"

"Well I feel I need a little sympathy"

"No amount of crying changes your mind
No amount of praying brings you inside"

"But the promise has been broken
As you walk through the shadow of death"

"Not guilty, have mercay!"

'Time cast it's spell on you but you won't forget me
I know I could have loved you but you would not let me (give me just a chance)
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 (was I just a fool?)"

"The spirits are ruthless with the paths they chose"

"Affairs of the heart that start out in the dark usually stay with the night"

"Rulers they make bad lovers. You better put your kingdom up for sale"

"Time makes you bolder children get older and I'm getting older too"

"My walls are flaming"

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

"I hope you find a love. Your own designs of love. That's alright"

"Songs are written, stories are told, rumours are started"

"To a room with some lace and paper flowers"

"Like a soft silver chain"

Alright so that wasn't just a few but I couldn't chose!

"This will leave you haunted in your mirror."

How the faces of love have changed, turning the pages
And I have changed, oh but you, you remain ageless
I turned around, and the water was closing all around
Like a glove
Like the love that had finally, finally found me

I haven't felt this way I feel
Since many a year ago
But in those years and the lifetimes past
I did not deal with the road
And I did not deal with you I know
Though the love has always been
So I search to find an answer there
So I can truly win

Well have you come to see
That my face is not seen
Ooh, outside my frost-covered windows

To be brave, save the stranger

And the woman may be awestruck
And the woman may truly care
but the woman is so tired...
So the woman disappears

Now I've got to show you, that I
Well, I never did believe in time
You know, changin' anybody's mind

We all believe in people
That we think believe in God
Somewhere in the night
Someone feels the pain
The ones who walk away
Try to love again.

Love is a word that some entertain
If you find it
You have won the game

Dreams unwind Love's a state of mind

ooo baby ooo, said ooo

I think I have met my match
He was singing
And undoing
Ooooh the laces

I'm not a child anymore
I'm tall enough to reach for the stars

Did I force you to remember
In the sacred name of love
Well to be brave save the stranger

I will never love again the way i loved you
You will never rule again the way you have ruled
We will never change again the way that we are changing
You'll forget the chill of love, but not the strain

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

The clouds never expect it when it rains
But the sea changes color,
But the sea doesn't change

I hear the call of a nightbird
I still hear the call of a nightbird

My mind won't rest and I don't sleep
Not even in my dreams
If you ever did believe for my sake

I was going over these with my friend and she said "I like her songs, but I have no idea what she is talking about!" :lol:

half of the mysticalness that IS Stevie Nicks! I get that a lot from my family, as well

Haha mysticalness indeed, I basically told her that you aren't really supposed to understand.

Angel

And to those that I love
Like a ghost through the fog
Like a charmed hour and a haunted song
And the angel of my dreams

Sable on Blonde

Well have you come to see
That my face is not seen
Outside my frost covered windows

Bella Donna

Come in out of the darkness you are in love with
And I'm ready to sail

No matter how tired I might get of Rhiannon, I'll always love the way she sings the cat in the dark line.