Lyrics that go "clunk"

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

Whole Lotta Trouble -
'Til the dream followed through
'Til the end of the dream
And the dream came true

Thank you, GypsySorcerer

This goes along with When I See You Again:

And the dream says I want you
And the dream is gone
So she stays up nights on end
Well at least there is a dream left....

[WatchChain]

----"Children of the world, the forgotten chimpanzee"

I know she didn't write this one, but something about -----"go down to the laundromat, maybe your sister is there"................

I'm sorry, but I cannot imagine Stevie Nicks sitting in a landromat.....or even doing her own laundry for that matter........

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Long nets of white cloud my memory.

She dreamed of her wanton luxury.

Oddly,I consider those as some of her best poetic lines!

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by drzubritsky

Maybe not a clunker, but did the line "...in the middle of my room I did not hear from you" ever strike anyone else as being a very oddly worded statement?

I find that sometimes the confusion in Stevie's lyrics come from how she sometimes phrases her lyrics. See if this makes more sense:

Stand back in the middle of my room -
I did not hear from you!


Another lyric along those lines:

Come in, out of the darkness you are in love with
And I'm ready to sail

I love the song Sable On Blonde, but find the line "Just how deep do you hold that dream in your hands in each night" rather weak, odd or even slightly pornographic.

[holidayroad]

Well you're a front liner
You put it all on the line

Ooh, you're consistent
Hey, and that's good
And you're persistent
Well I am overcome

[DashingDan]

Two Clunks of Love
"You say I hate this"
*CLUNK*

"..Well I talked to my famous friend last night
My third day up well, his second night-er
He says I don't know how you do what you do
how do you let the world in
Well I say well there's no way out
Then I just play out the game
Well the two of us Widow and a Dove"
*MEGA CLUNK*

[DashingDan]

Love is Dangerous
(I can only assume she wrote the following...)
"Standing at the crossroads
Ooh yeah, this is wild"
*CLUNK*

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

I love the song Sable On Blonde, but find the line "Just how deep do you hold that dream in your hands each night" rather weak, odd or even slightly pornographic.

I always saw this as someone who is praying every night before going to bed, in the way that one holds their hands together in reverence of God.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

I find that sometimes the confusion in Stevie's lyrics come from how she sometimes phrases her lyrics. See if this makes more sense:

Stand back in the middle of my room -
I did not hear from you!

Ok. This doesn't bother me. In fact, I kind of like the oddity of it. But as long as you're talking about rooms and hearing, I think If Anyone Falls is funny.

I hear a voice in the room next to mine
Feels good sounds good
Closes the door from behind
And another voice comes thru the door

I feel like she's hearing something going on in the hotel room next to her. But how does she know the unseen person closes the door from behind? Well, I guess it's behind (or more distant) than the first voice she heard. Also, if the guy she was hearing in the hotel room was alone, until the other voice came along, why could she hear him. Who was he talking to when he was by himself?

Anyway, the screwy words create illicit images in my head, involving eavesdropping on another couple and wanting to be involved in what's going on next door. Those images don't hurt though. They enhance it. Gives it an air of mystery and a sense of the forbidden.

Michele

[CADreaming]

"Until she, herself..."

I love it, but I still just laugh every time.

And, then there's the immortal:

" 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"

It is awesome in its clunkiness, as most of her songs are. Two more:

"Nobody knows, knows nothing 'bout it"

"No explanations and I tell you no
You say nothing"

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

I find that sometimes the confusion in Stevie's lyrics come from how she sometimes phrases her lyrics. See if this makes more sense:

Stand back in the middle of my room -
I did not hear from you!


.

Early in the writing process Stand Back was actually called "Stranded" which kind of makes the lyric make more sense, to me anyway:

Stranded in the middle of my room
I did not hear from you

Why the word was changed is anyone's guess but I always figured that if you pronounced the word 'stranded" with that same break it would fall between the syllables and it would sound like "stran-ded" with the emphasis on the second syllable so the "-ded" would stick out and sound like she was saying "dead"..... if you make it "stand-back" it doesn't have the same jarring effect of the "dead" syllable.

I should add that one thing I've always found most curious about this song is she wrote it on her honeymoon.. She has said she and Kim were driving to Big Sur for their honeymoon and she heard Prince on the radio and was all "I HAVE to get this song" and they went driving around to find somewhere to get a copy of the song and a tape recorder and then she stayed up all night writing the song. Omen for the rest of the marriage.....

[mitzo]

Funny also how some words become goofy themes in some albums -

In TISL we have the word "strain" inserted clumsily in POTU and I Miss You

In IYD we hear "righteous" in a number of songs.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by mitzo

In IYD we hear "righteous" in a number of songs.

And her heart is broken in nearly every song (only a slight exaggeration...)

[Lilyfan]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Thank you, GypsySorcerer

This goes along with When I See You Again:

And the dream says I want you
And the dream is gone
So she stays up nights on end
Well at least there is a dream left....

It makes sense if "dream" is a code word for a person.

[Lilyfan]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Ok. This doesn't bother me. In fact, I kind of like the oddity of it. But as long as you're talking about rooms and hearing, I think If Anyone Falls is funny.

I hear a voice in the room next to mine
Feels good sounds good
Closes the door from behind
And another voice comes thru the door

I feel like she's hearing something going on in the hotel room next to her. But how does she know the unseen person closes the door from behind? Well, I guess it's behind (or more distant) than the first voice she heard. Also, if the guy she was hearing in the hotel room was alone, until the other voice came along, why could she hear him. Who was he talking to when he was by himself?

Anyway, the screwy words create illicit images in my head, involving eavesdropping on another couple and wanting to be involved in what's going on next door. Those images don't hurt though. They enhance it. Gives it an air of mystery and a sense of the forbidden.

Michele

She would hear him if he was singing or playing guitar while he was alone.