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Originally Posted by Ghosty

The line about "she is dancing away from you now -she was just a wish" also always makes me think she was thinking back to her old self, her younger self, and then as the memories fade, her old self and that feeling are dancing away from her..... Again, probably just the spin it took in my mind.

Nope - not just you. That's exactly how I've always interpreted it, too. I always thought it was about Stevie herself, thinking about her own life, and her life without Robin.

Here are some quotes from Stevie herself about Gypsy:

For me to be a gypsy; for me to write about the gypsy - and for me to live the life of a gypsy that I love - I sort of almost have to be almost cold and insensitive to be able to remain that gypsy. It's not easy to be a hippie-gypsy when you're rich and when you're a rock'n'roll star.
~Stevie Nicks, Jim Ladd Innerview, 1983

Gypsy is about um ...going back to the gypsy that I was prior to Fleetwood Mac.
~Stevie Nicks, Rock's Family Tree

Yes in my uh Doheny house - in my English house. I just uh.. I went through an experience that wasn't particularly pleasant and I moved out of my big English bedroom into the little back bedroom that was all...the lady that owned this house had put all this French wallpaper up that was flowers and it was beautifully, beautifully done. It's just a little tiny room and put my bed back on the floor, moved my JBLs [speakers] in there, all my plants... all my junk, everything I had into this tiny little room about as big as this sofa, you know and I just lived in there for about 3 months. And I, it was really like living back in my apartment before I joined Fleetwood Mac...it was ...I'm very comfortable living in one little room with my bed on the floor and kind of lace tacked up at the windows, you know.

[A place where you felt secure and safe or comfortable?] And back to me, back to ...you know, uh back to learning to live alone again. Back to the gypsy.
~Stevie Nicks, Jim Ladd Innerview, 1982


The song Gypsy isn't a real happy story. Gypsy is a lot about returning to San Francisco. And Gypsy was written when my best friend [Robin] died of Leukemia and uh ...about the fact that she wasn't going to see the rest of this: I still see your bright eyes, it was like she wasn't ...going to make it. And uh, I was like the lone gypsy ~ this was my best friend from when I was 15 and so I was a solo gypsy all of a sudden and it was very sad for me and that's sometimes when I write my very best songs.

Robin had been on the road with Fleetwood Mac for five years. As my speech therapist and also management, an incredibly efficient helper. I still miss your bright eyes ~ that's why we don't do it on stage ~ it's because it's really too hard for me to sing. Lightening strikes maybe once, maybe twice... that means one time in your life you find a very good friend, and maybe if you're incredibly lucky, you might find a second. It all comes down to you, means but you have to look very hard.
~Stevie Nicks, video interview for Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits (1988)

Does anyone have quotes where she talks about it being about Kim? That's the first I've ever heard this - and when I look at the lyrics of the song, I just can't see where. I'm not saying that interpretation is wrong. I just have never seen it.