I cannot remember where, but Stevie summed up the words to Silver Springs as this...it was a song to Lindsey referring to what he could have been to her. Things went bad in their relationship but she still loved him. But now they were over and she had to tell him that now that the relationship IS over, that he could have been that place for her. One day she was driving through Maryland and saw the sign for Silver Springs and she thought to herself..what a wonderful sounding place..a place of solitude and beauty and pure happiness..and thats when she wrote this song..because thats exactly what Lindsey was to her..and could have been in the future if things had worked out.
My favorite line is "youll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you..Ill follow you down till the sound of my voice will haunt you"..and 20 years later..this still seems true..they are still in each others lives and SHE still impacts him. He has never gotten away ..I like that LOL
