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Originally Posted by Ensorcled
I honestly thought that was just wishful thinking on the part of fans. I never thought it was true. Have they spoken about it? I'm obsessed now...need to do some googling.
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That's one way of looking at it, especially as he was with Kristen at the time. She, of course, didn't have anyone...
Sandra Bernhard & Kurt Loder talk about Stevie, December 1997
Sandra: You know, Stevie’s a little fragile after the tour and I’m sure a little lonely, you know.
Kurt: Probably. Well, don’t you think you has some, like, hot guy?
Sandra: No, she told me backstage - she told me and Anna Sway that, um, Lindsey Buckingham said “Are you not seeing anybody at all?” She goes “No, I can’t. There’s no way I can go on tour with you and be seeing anybody. I couldn’t have anybody in my life.” I was like -
Kurt: Woah.
Sandra: - let’s sit down with a big cup of Chinese tea and pour it, Stevie, because you are going to that magic place.
As for the 'wishful thinking', this at least, has basis in fact. Stevie takes her songs from her journals and Destiny Rules makes it fairly clear this isn't some fictitious song. Of course, it COULD be written about a different period. It isn't 'helped' by more than one report from fans that Lindsey was sighted on her solo tour the very next year, tbh...
S: Well, actually, this song was written on the last Fleetwood Mac tour, on The Dance tour, and it was really, in it's own kinda strange way, written about my relationship with Lindsey and how the barricades of time have always gotten in our way. You know, at some point in life, you start write on these things philosophically. And so, Lindsey and I are like, you know, amazed that we can actually write stuff that is about each other and was about each other and means stuff to us now.
L: It's odd sitting here singing all this stuff about myself, you know. It's, uh, you sort of learn to disassociate and to sort of be 'professional' about it but, you know, it's pretty amazing. All this time later, that there would still be those subjects being dealt with in a really deep manner.
L: When you sing 'and now you're going home', who are you talking about?
S: I'm talking to you.
L: I just thought it was, because it's not as abstract as what Bob Dylan would write in those situations. It's not a, it's a fairly literal narrative.
The waiting outside the door and dedicating her pain to him is one of my favourite parts, if only because I find this from over a decade later, quite interesting, especially as it's a song by Lindsey about his wife.
"And the same old dream, she was hiding outside my door
She used to come from time to time but not any more"