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Originally Posted by CADreaming
Stevie's lyrics about sex are subtle.
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EO17 comes off sexual to me only because I continually miss-hear the lyric (even though I know the correct version) to be "I would f*ck with an angel...desired to please..."
I guess the actually lyric could be subtly sexual if you wanted it to be. I think that's the point of Stevie's songs...they can be so abstract and mean 4 different things to her and different things to other people, depending on what's going on in their lives at the time.
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Originally Posted by IKV Nexis
Also some of the inspiration comes from Tom Petty's wife at that time that said to Stevie that she met Tom at the age of seventeen. But she had a strong sothern accent and Stevie heard Edge of Seventeen and grabbed the menue from the table and wrote it down.
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Yes, I remember reading this a long time ago, and I was starting to wonder if I had my facts straight
Ah...here's the full quote
The immediate inspiration is from Jane Petty, who is Tom's wife, because she told me that when she met Tom he was, she said, 'at the age of seventeen' but she has this incredible southern drawl so it sounded like 'edge of seventeen' and I said, 'Jane, (I 'm writing it on the menu, right! Im going...) I'm writing a song called Edge of Seventeen.' And she laughs, you know, she didn't ever think I was ever serious. So it started out about Tom and Jane basically, who I have no idea what they were at 17, but I made it up. And, uh it went into being written about [her Uncle Jon and John Lennon].
~Stevie Nicks, The Stevie Nicks Story from The Source, 1981