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Originally Posted by bombaysaffires
yep, totally agree. now that he's got a full personal life that's not connected to the band, or Stevie, they can focus on the work, the musical partnership and letting all the old toxic sh*t go.
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His full, contented, inspirational personal life IS still connected to Stevie, though. As he said in Vegas 'many' of his songs are about her. He's not, when talking about her, focused purely on the work and musical partnership. His songs and interviews don't consistently speak of that door being closed in terms of a personal relationship not based solely on work and past memories.
Look, disregarding all of what he has publicly said about his songs and what/who they're about in recent years, there is far too much yearning, 'past' and use of certain words/phrases easily linked to Stevie for me to think his personal life is entirely unconnected to her. I think even songs that he chooses to cover are VERY important in terms of this. For all his talk of having 'our own lives' and having boundaries, I dunno. The music perhaps plays a role in being able to maintain those boundaries in that it's an outlet for feelings and emotions that can't be expressed other ways anymore if they're playing by the rules.
"You know, she has an album out as well and we spent a good deal of time together, more time than we'd spent together in quite a while. And, you know, I think we both realised that there are still chapters yet to be written in the Stevie and Lindsey book and, after all of this time, I think that's pretty extraordinary that there's still, that we're still working on our ****." (2011)
"We've been through things together that, you know, very few people have gone through. But, you know, there is also what I would define as a healthy distance at this point and yet there is this sort of undercurrent of a lot of things - nostalgia and, and, uh, a kind of, uh, and a love, and you would think - It's odd because on some strange level I think we're still working on it. It doesn't seem possible after all these years but I think on some level we are. And that's sweet." (2013)
"We are still discovering things about each other. We are still getting back to things that we once had. We can start to address some of the love that's always been there and some of the things that we have shared." (2013)
In the late of the evening with the cold in my eyes
I'm a madman out on a bad man route looking for paradise...
Resurrection will come apparition will go
And the shadow singer will stand and linger in places no one ever goes
I hear your heart as you pass through
I know the pain that you feel; I'll shepherd you...
Lay your head down; no one will see
Cry me a river of new dreams; float yourself free
Mirror, mirror in the sky / Won't you look what's happening here below
No one knows what's going on / Can you give us a sign where to go *
Magic one / All our dreams are done / I have no faith today...
Hearts will break / With choices we must make / So sleep and dream of me
Oh, you and I we sure can dream / Of conversations that might have been...
And even after all these years / I can't even see you clear
We never took quite enough chances / We never had quite enough time
I did about a thousand dances / But nothing would change your mind
If we forgive ourselves we might be whole
But you know that wishing, wishing won't make it so
The currents they caught her / Hiding in my room
Mirrors in her eyes / She was wet she was soaking
Ashes in the ocean / And her heart was broken
Every bone has been broken / Rumours all lost at sea
Every word every language has been spoken / Someone's got to set you free...
Suicide days, suicide suicide nights / In a wheelchair almost blind
Someone's going to have to pay the price / Someone's got to change your mind
In the shadow moon / Steel tears I cried
You were out of tune / It seemed to suit my dark side...
Love runs deeper from the underground / Love runs deeper from a broken home
Black angel can't be alone
Fighting for a cause I can't remember any more
Well I guess you could say that I was framed...
I changed my name / I went insane
Still I can't complain
I'm a little lost let me find my way / I'm a little dead let me live...
Come along lay down and talk to me / Tell me all your fear will allow
It doesn't matter who we thought we were / We ain't got time for that now
I go to my lover we lay on our bed
Did I sell my heart for the dreams in my head?
I walked around under moonlit skies / All alone going home hoping to fly
Face down in the ocean always gasping for air / Saw your face full of grace trying not to care...
I walk empty halls wondering what is true / Behind the garden walls I search for you
Deep down in the ocean deep down in the sea / Saw your face full of grace searching for me
Had a dream that you reached for me in the night / Touched me soft and slow
Everything was wrong but everything was right / Oh, the seeds we sow
Fire still burning, in a while she'll make it rain
These rooms are all falling down, they couldn't stand the strain
And the same old dream, she was hiding outside my door
She used to come from time to time but not any more
This time I think she's here for good but I never really know
Nothing here remains, just a vision of her face
The implications of a crime, it always takes the place...
Still in my mind
I've got a bad reputation / And you have something to hide
Ooh, such a strange sensation / When you finally open up your eyes
I lie alone and watch you sleep / I'd reach for you but I might weep
If you should tell me I must keep / Away, away, away...
I'd like to take your pain away / Away, away, away
Behind your shade the colors fade / Away, away, away
Sometimes we fantasise / Wondering if we could've tried
Wondering if we died / Wondering if the stars are crazy...
I wake up in the middle of the night / With you in my heart / With you in my heart
I can't touch you any more / It causes you harm *
For your love, I must be on time / Wait for hours alone by your shrine
Your bark is worse than my bite...
I see clues that you leave behind / White or blue, I know it can't be mine
I want to look for what I might find
Freedom is someone to know / There is no right or wrong anymore...
I keep walking on this heart of mine / I could go crazy without even trying
Fleeing the scene of the crime
No, I have no reputation / And I'm not on any list
That's because I've got a publicist / Who covers up the avarice of where I put my fist
And the love you know has come to an end / And the silence answers your call
Save me / It's gone too far / It's gone too far
When you're waiting for your ocean to rise / All alone at night long after I've gone
And your conversations all end in lies / And you wake up singing one of my songs
When we get to the other side /Maybe then we'll make amends...
Swing low sweet chariot / Give us back our youth
When they finally come to bury us / Maybe then we'll tell the truth
All those who love her / They look on in pain...
A thousand years / With no place to go / How will we get along?
A thousand pains / That raven never shows...
Promises, promises / Already planned / Innocence dies
Every night, every day / In this house filled with shame...
There's no truth in my life / There's no light in my eyes
And it's all I guess / That I'll ever miss
Why do you come around / So very much
You know it just brings you down / It's just something you can touch...
Anyone at all / Could see what was missin'
Could see you were dyin' / But no one was cryin'
But there's only one brush we need / It's the one that never leaves a trace
All alone we go on day after day / All alone we suffer ...
And the lie was creeping / Down, down, down
While we were sleeping / Suddenly we hit the ground
And once again she calls to me / Then she vanishes in thin air...
Somebody's got to see this through / All the world is laughing at you
And somebody's got to sacrifice / If this whole thing's gonna turn out right
And the price that we paid / For a love we couldn't hold...
I let you slip away / There was nothing I could do
That was so long ago, yeah / Still I often think of you
I fall down, I get up / And I've always had to fight
Everything that was wrong / For the things that were right
My eyes were consumed / By the silence in the room
Your dreams would not wake / From the words that we break...
My eyes saw the words / With a prayer and a curse
Your pain had to sleep / With a sword that it keeps
Maybe I've just been holding out too long / Maybe I couldn't admit I was wrong
And maybe I've just been lying to myself...
Maybe I've wasted all this precious time / Trying to prove what is and isn't mine...
If you want to save me / It takes time
I had another dream about you last night / Sailing on a sea of blue
You were grieving for someone else / I was grieving for you...
From the window I heard your voice / Telling me you were through