Everybody Finds Out
 

EBFO has always been one of my favorite tracks from SYW. I always thought it would have been a good fit on Tango. After playing Tango a lot after getting the deluxe set.......confirmed again this would have been one heck of a rocker for Stevie on TITN.

This would have been perfect on TITN. I like this song a lot.

The song is amazing. If you search you will find a long thread about this song. Its so explosive and builds and builds. It should have been the single from Say You Will.

On Tango? NO WAY! Its perfect so why mess with a perfect song. Lindsey would have added computer beats and over produced it to death. The Tango productions would have killed the song.

Missing my point my friend. It would have fit on Tango as is. IMO.

Yes I love EFO! John's bassline is so awesome on this song.

If you close your eyes and listen I could go between Caroline and TINTN

Love this song. Does anyone know when she wrote --- if it was written specific let for SYW?

I got your point but it makes no sense because it was recorded way after the 80's synth pop. Lets put Sleeping Angel and Running Through the Garden on Tango too.
You could say that about any song then.

As it sounds on SYW--yes. It would have been an ideal fit for Tango.

EFO sounds like a more attractive cousin than I Can't Wait (also a collaboration with Rick Knowles). I don't think Stevie's voice could have handled it in 1987, but damn, she knocks it out of the park in 2003.

For what it's worth, I think the version of Planets from TISL would also have sounded cool on Tango.

I hear this song every once in a while and I think it would be a heck of a rocker for her NOW.:nod: Especially the climax of the song is so intense.. Would love to hear it live!

I agree. It would be a great addition to a tour setlist. A nice surprise as well. I think they should do this and Thrown Down on an upcoming tour.

Love this song...it's my favorite off SYW! They absolutely should have worked it out for the stage in 2003/04 (believe there's footage of them rehearsing it on Destiny Rules).

I would love to know this too. Also what are everyone's thoughts on what it is about?

I think she said this was inspired by the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. So I'd guess it was written around then or shortly after and maybe tried for TISL but ultimately ended up on SYW.

All of Stevie's clandestine relationships....

"she gets on a midnight plane, she's done it a thousand times" reminds me of her stories of the Lear jets Henley would send to pick her up (the little cranberry colored jet...etc. She has in fact done it a thousand times :eek:)

"When love starts out in the darkness..." Again, relationships kept secret.... Mick, Dallas Taylor, Tom, etc etc...

"she spends every day, waiting for the day, when everybody finds out" all those secret affairs that won't make people (wives, girlfriends, whoever) happy.

you get the idea. :shrug:

I've heard that before. It would make sense if that was the time period it was written.

Tom Petty?

If that's who you meant, am I the only one who thinks they never really had a relationship? I think they might've been flirty sometimes but I don't think it ever turned into anything or anything serious happened. Maybe I just want to believe there was someone she didn't sleep with.

And the Dallas Taylor relationship was all kinds of wrong. It freaked me out a little when she was talking about it like this grand romantic thing. I'm pretty sure it's something you can get fired for.

Mick is the first thought I had the first time I heard this song especially with the line, "affairs of the heart that start out in the dark, usually stay with the night". However, as with many of Stevie's songs, I think it's about multiple things.

I'd love to see it in the setlist. I think it's a great dance number. Most of the audience won't know it, but it's less likely to make them rush for the concession stand than an unknown ballad is.

Michele

I was always under the impression that this song was largely targeting Kristen. Was this song written before 99? I thought the "affairs in the dark" part referenced Kristen getting pregnant. That LB doesn't really love Kristen but Stevie, but he's stuck because of the kids. The second verse is targeted more at LB.
Overall basically a he doesn't really love you the way he loved me, and pssss...he still does that sure gotta piss you off.

I could be way off, but when you look at it through that lenses it's a pretty cutting song.

Dear god.....

The working title was Monica. She calls it that in the Destiny Rules doc.

what???? her ego? :lol:

The previous post.

Stevie songs about real people are always really about Stevie, about the parallels she finds between them and her own life.

I know.. I was shaking my head, too. Leave the man alone already!

But they're still in LOVE!!!!:lol::lol::lol:

I will always love my ex, but I don't want to be anywhere near him most of the time. And I'm not at all, 'in love' with him.

.......And, I applaud any man that would come after me. It's a lot of work dating him.

Oh. anywhere we can baby, any time we can get away ... I think that line was taunting Kristen too. I don't think there's anything going on with them now and hardly feel they're still "in love", but I think there was something in 1997 and that a slew of songs emerged from it.

Michele

Please,the cynical side in me say they can't even be in the same room together now!

The man had been married for almost 20 years. Give him some credit!

To analyze Stevie's lyrics is useless. I think sometimes she doesn't even know who's the owner of each of her songs.

But I also think something happened in 1997... and then he got married! :shocked::lol:

no idea if she and Tom actually hooked up or not; neither has ever copped to it. But nothing, NOTHING, would surprise me. My comment was a bit tongue in cheek.

"you can't have him, I *do* have him, most of the time"

I always found this song slightly amusing given that she's said in interviews how she won't ever compete for a man..... this song sounds pretty damned competitive to me, especially that line. :eek:

I was under the impression this song was originally inspired by Monica Lewinski

:lol: :lol: Don't we all? :lol::lol:

Mama probably owned stock in a penicillin manufacturer, by the time she was done with So. Cal!

Don't judge her! As a songwriter, she needed all the bed experiences she could get. :lol::lol:

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it and I don't think slut shaming is cute. Mick and Lindsey didn't exactly keep their legs shut either. Never Going Back Again is basically about a hook up.

I don't mind slut shaming as long at it's equal for men and women...

And believe me, both Mick and John are not innocent. Neither is Christine.

I agree, I just feel like sometimes a certain tone is taken when talking about women, particularly Stevie. I do get though she had quite a colorful relationship history, I even joke about it sometimes.

This thread has caused me to listen to this song on constant repeat the past couple of days. I can't help but love it, regardless of what it is about. It's such a jam!

Funny you mention that. I just played it twice.