"Say Goodbye" Was written.....

[Mystical88]

I read this on another site and wanted to share it. Say Goodbye is] kind of a torch song, sort of an Edit Piaf meets Leo Kottke, is the way I think of it. Actually that song was written...about Stevie, and for Stevie, quite a while ago. It was written about the time that I had departed the band in '87. And it had been..Fleetwood Mac had been an excersize in denial for many years, and I finally felt at that time that I was going to be able to kind of move on on an emotional level in some ways, and get some closure that I hadn't been able to get, you know. As far as the production goes, it really is just a single guitar part. It's just a very intricate guitar part.
KCRW radio, April 2003

[I]t's Charles Aznavour meets Leo Kottke. That is a song about Stevie.... The lyric came first, which is unusual for me. I tried to do that song for a number of years and couldn't quite figure out how to do it. After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.
Acoustic Guitar, October 2003

Is a Nice site

http://www.madnessfades.net/submenu_songs.htm