Article mentions Peacekeeper/ Lindsey & Stevie quotes

[DownOnRodeo]

This Miami Herald article addresses the issue of anti-war songs, while referring to Peacekeeper as its primary example.

Peacekeeper, the new Fleetwood Mac single, has been appropriated as an anti-war song and this week has broken through to the Billboard Hot 100...

Even before its official release, Fleetwood Mac's Peacekeeper topped a Drudge Report radio poll of the Top New Anti-War Songs last week, handily beating entries from Mellencamp, the Beastie Boys and George Michael.

However, composer Lindsey Buckingham says that Peacekeeper was written about two years ago. But with lines like, We make all of our suns the same / Everyone will suffer the fire we've made / They all explode just the same / And there's no going back on the plans we've laid , it feels eerily prescient.

''At the time -- or now -- it was a peace song, quite ironically stated,'' Buckingham says. ``It's about how we are becoming increasingly more desensitized to things around the world that are brutal and not standing up for human values. And how the actions of the larger bodies affect the family or individual and how that ultimately turns back on the larger body.''

But the attention Peacekeeper has earned has put the artist in an uncomfortable position. ''We are not a political group,'' Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks says. ``My mission is not to stand on a political soapbox.''

The full article is in the link above but I've quoted all the sentences referring to FM here.