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Originally Posted by nailatixela
Please explain your take of the song then. I'd like to read it
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Ok... my interpretation. If anyone disagrees, then please don't jump down my throat. It's my opinion - nothing more, nothing less. It's all good. 
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Whoo...whoo..whoo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo baby...ooo...said ooo
Simple - this is the mating call. She's singing to her mate. (Also, makes me think of the line in "Sara" - "I think I had met my match, he was singing..")
And the days go by
Like a strand in the wind
In the web that is my own
I begin again
Said to my friend, baby
Nothing else mattered
I find this part curious because of the spider analogy. Used again in "Gold Dust Woman" where she talks about the black widow. Anyway, basic gist here - nothing else matters besides this relationship and maybe the web is referring to something that is being created. If I were to elaborate my thoughts, it could refer to the "Landslide" time period (after the BN failure) when she has decided to continue with Lindsey and continue to pursue the music with him; which would explain the "I begin again" line.
He was no more than a baby then
Well, he seemed broken-hearted...
Something within him
But the moment that I first laid
Eyes on him...all alone
On the edge of seventeen
She remembers meeting Lindsey and the connection she felt with him.
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo baby...ooo...said ooo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Said, ooo baby...ooo...said ooo
Hello. Mating call.
Well, I went today
Maybe I will go again tomorrow
Yeah, yeah, well, the music there
Well, it was hauntingly familiar
Well, I see you doing
What I try to do for me
With the words from a poet
And a voice from a choir
And a melody...
Nothing else mattered
Memories of Fritz and the beginnings of Buckingham Nicks. Lindsey began working on her music. "I see you doing what I try to do for me" - Lindsey filling in the blanks musically on her songs.
"With the words of a poet" - her words
"and the voice from a choir" - their harmonies/one of the orders of angels
"and a melody...nothing else mattered" - To both Stevie and Lindsey, nothing else mattered but their music. It's interesting that this phrase is repeated, reinforcing their mutual dedication to their music. Also, 'melody' brings to mind the BN song "Without You": "you are song for me, melody, ingrained in my soul."
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo baby...ooo...said ooo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo baby...ooo...said ooo
Mating call. Lot of that in here. They must have had a very active sex life. 
The clouds never expect it
When it rains
But the sea changes colours...
But the sea
Does not change
And so with the slow graceful flow
Of age
I went forth with an age-old
Desire to please
On the edge of seventeen
Ooh....
This is the "coming of age" part. Hence, the wail. Sorry, but that's always the way I have heard it since I was 11 and didn't really have a clue....
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo baby...ooo...said ooo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo baby...ooo...said ooo
Here she goes again... lol
Well, then suddenly
There was no one left standing
In the hall
Yeah, yeah, in a flood of tears
That no one really ever heard fall at all
Well, I went searching for an answer
Up the stairs...and down the hall
But not to find an answer...
Just to hear the call
Of a nightbird...singing...
Come away...come away...come away...
Something happened in the hallway. (A fight with her parents, maybe? Refer to the original concept video of EOS.) She is devastated, broken-hearted and she is just running and she hears the "nightbird"... Lindsey asking her to run away with him, because...
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo baby...ooo...said ooo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo baby...ooo...said ooo
Here she goes again! 
Well, I hear you...in the morning...
And I hear you...at nightfall...
Sometimes to be near you...
Is to be unable...to hear you
My love...
I'm a few years older than you...
My love
She's with him, she hears him in the morning and at night because they live together. But, there are times when she can't "hear" him because they have trouble communicating. He is her love, however, no matter what. Because...
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo baby...ooo...said ooo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo baby...ooo...said ooo
There they go again!
Ending ad libs now include:
I hear the call of a nightbird
I hear the call of a nightbird
I still hear the call of a nightbird
He says, "come away, come away, come away!"
Come with me now!
Oh, yeah!
I know what it sounds like
I know what it sounds like
I know what it sounds like
It sounds like you
In summary, I do not think every song is about Lindsey and I do believe many of her songs are/could be about multiple topics. However, I think this song is about one subject - the beginning of her relationship with Lindsey and their love. If you think about it, it's sort of a great tribute to him, since it was her first true solo single.
As she has said, read between her lines. In my opinion, this song has nothing to do with John Lennon or Uncle Bill. The song was recorded/released around that time in her life when those two major events occurred and so it gave her great fodder for interviews. And, at that time especially, there was no way in the world Stevie would have candidly admitted this song was about having premarital sex with Lindsey. In fact, I don't think there's a whole lot she does candidly admit...and as frustrating as that is, I actually have come to love her for that. Her lyrics are great fun to dissect and if she had always given the breakdown on all her songs, it wouldn't have been near as interesting!
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