Welcome to the Room...Sara: Discussion

[Macfan4life]

I dont know why I came across this interpretation of the song but I read something on another site that was interesting about this song. Like many of Stevie's songs, they are about multiple experiences rolled into one song.

We all know Welcome to the Room Sara is about her stint at Betty Ford. She checked in under the alias Sara Anderson ....blah blah blah

She takes a swipe at her management team who forced her to go blah blah blah

Now here is the interesting part that I read. Stevie's best friend Sara we all know married Mick the year after this song was written and released. So the time it was written they must have been serious in their relationship. They got married in 1988 so they were probably engaged about the time the song was written.

Welcome to the Room, Sara - could mean the actual room of drug rehab OR it could also mean, Welcome to the madness Sara now you are part of us. Her best friend is now engaged to Mick.

The lines..."I thought you were mine" Could mean a Lindsey reference. Lindsey was still be written about even in later songs like Blue Denim, etc. Or could it mean Mick dumped Stevie for Sara?

The phone line "when you hang up that phone." Has been attributed to a Joe Walsh quote.

So its interesting this song has hidden meanings about everything. Gone With The Wind references with the Tara plantation and Scarlett the main character. So is she taking the strong willed Scarlett or the romantic part which makes it more relationship orientated than we thought.


I dont care for the song but its an interesting window into what was happening in late 1986/early 1987. Instead of creating a new thread, I found this old thread, not in Rumours but Stevie forum.