I like it and the way it's written. When I listen to it, it seems to me that Stevie was trying to paint a vivid picture of this human character. She explains how the "silver girl" is a wild one, a girl who has made good things happen for herself in such a hard world, how she is much wiser than her years let on, how she is very guarded and doesn't trust people easily, how she wishes she had been born earlier in life, and how with all the things she has (a million bucks and good looks), she still wants things from life that will make her happy; the money and how she looks are just superficial things to her.
That's what I took away from the song!
Now..."Not Make Believe" is just awful. How bad are the lyrics? So cliched and unimaginative and uncreative. It's just bad. "It hurts my self-esteem/It hurts my everything." Blech. It's just terrible and a shame that it was even released without being tweaked with a LOT more. I think it stands as one of the worst FM songs committed to record.
