Kick It meaning?

[SpyNote]

Here's an interpretation of "Kick It." I don't think Stevie's ever talked about it.

“Kick It” is partly inspired by Oscar Wilde’s 1888 story “The Happy Prince,” a “strange kind of love affair” between a swallow and a statue of a prince. Stevie adapted certain lines from Wilde’s story (a public domain work) for the song.

WILDE: “I will stay with you one night longer,” said the Swallow
NICKS: I’ll stay with you for one more night

WILDE: “I am waited for in Egypt,” said the Swallow. “My friends are flying up and down the Nile, and talking to the large lotus-flowers.
NICKS: Well, I’m waited for in Egypt. It’s just something I must do.

WILDE: “For in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me.”
NICKS: Nothing like forevermore

In “The Happy Prince,” love and sacrifice are saving forces for the swallow and the prince. Stevie mirrors this sentiment in the lyric “I loved you more than life itself/But I’m prepared to kick it.” At the time of this recording, Stevie had just completed an intensive rehabilitation program for prescription medication addiction.