Let's talk about.......STORMS.....

[Black_Moon]

It took me a while to really appreciate "Storms". I'd always listen to it and think, 'Yeah, really beautiful song' but then skip it whenever it came on. One day it hit me, which I think often happens with Stevie's songs, and now I consider it one of my utmost favourite songs she's ever wrote.

She said,
"Everynight he will break your heart"

I think this part is about Mick, and someone who Stevie held in high regard - Robin? Even Sara Recor? - warning Stevie off the affair. Obviously, it wasn't going to end well with him being married and things. Generally, when Stevie says "she" in a song, I think she's talking about herself but I think in this case it's someone else speaking.

[wewerefrail]

Originally Posted by FMlex

For anyone who hasn't heard the unreleased/unmastered version of Storms, please download and listen.
The last 45 seconds or so are awesome! Intense. I love the two Stevie voices going on at the same time.

Courtesy of Brian, here it is:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ifknnzyirdd

Two Stevies are definitely better than one!

Since my first listen to Tusk, Storms has been my favorite Stevie song. I love how a song called Storms can be so vulnerable.

Did I ever really care that much? Girl, preach.

[Lala]

Originally Posted by Black_Moon

She said,
"Everynight he will break your heart"

I think it's the lines at the end that really connect me to this song. The feeling you have when a relationship ends, or you lose someone...and you feel so stupid for believing it could never happen...that things would all work out...when it was right in front of you the whole time.

I guess that's the theme of the whole song, in a way.

[Black_Moon]

Originally Posted by Lala

I think it's the lines at the end that really connect me to this song. The feeling you have when a relationship ends, or you lose someone...and you feel so stupid for believing it could never happen...that things would all work out...when it was right in front of you the whole time.

I guess that's the theme of the whole song, in a way.

I agree, and reflection like someone said earlier. Stevie reflecting on the endings of all of her relationships, how they left her broken hearted. Unsurprising, as I think Stevie seems to be a more of a "think with your heart, not your head" kind of person, particularly in romance.

[GypsyBlueEyes]

I always felt that Storms was mostly about the ending of Stevie's relationship with Mick, but I think she used lines that refer to her relationship with Lindsey to draw similarities to what happened with Mick:

(lol..and don't laugh...this is just for the sake of conversation...just for fun...dime store psychology at its best )

The whole beginning of the song is about Mick up until:

I haven't felt this way I feel
Since many a year ago
But in those years and the lifetimes past
I did not deal with the road

Maybe she is saying that what she was feeling about Mick she hadn't felt since her relationship with Lindsey had ended. True or not, the reason I thought this was because I haven't ever believed that Stevie and Lindsey have ever had any kind of closure between them (no matter what they may say at any given time )...I think she is saying that she didn't handle the Lindsey situation in a way that gave her any closure.

And I did not deal with you I know
Though the love has always been

Then turned around and did the same thing with Mick even though she loved him...

So I search to find an answer there
So I can truly win

Perhaps she was saying that she was using what happened in her past with Lindsey to figure out what she should/shouldn't do in regards to the end of her relationship with Mick...she wants to bring closure to the relationship with Mick in a way she hadn't been able to with Lindsey

So I try to say
Goodbye my friend
I'd like to leave you with something warm

Maybe she is saying that she made a real effort to gain closure with Mick instead of ignoring the situation the way she had with Lindsey

But never have I been a blue calm sea
I have always been a storm

But ultimately she couldn't break the cycle...and therefore didn't get the closure she was hoping for

We were frail
She said
Everynight he will break your heart
I should have known from the first
Id be the broken hearted
But I loved you from the start
Save us...
And not all the prayers in the world -- could save us

Maybe that part is her telling herself that she won't ever get the closure she wants and that she should have known it would end up that way...that she would get her heart broken...but she took a chance with him anyway because she loved him...even though they were doomed from the start and there wasn't anything that could have saved the relationship.

Wow...sorry guys, that really turned out much longer than I had intended

[daniellaaarisen]

I'm not gonna lie. I think that a vast majority of Stevie's love-related songs relate to Lindsey AND I don't say that just because I'm a huge shipper (to my own disgrace, of course).

I think that if you look at her lyrics closely, they always come down to a "love that's always been". I don't necessarily think Stevie's songs are always written with that intent, but I think she compares each one of her romantic "intanglements" to their relationship. In the end, if you date Stevie, you're fighting Lindsey Buckingham and his total appeal to her, despite the hatred that has bounced back and forth for so long.

I'll write more about "Storms" when I have time (its midnight in a hotel lobby). But yeah, its one of those songs that stuck to my bones during the hardest time of my life (much like "Love Is" and "Beautiful Child").

[daniellaaarisen]

Originally Posted by wewerefrail

Two Stevies are definitely better than one!

Since my first listen to Tusk, Storms has been my favorite Stevie song. I love how a song called Storms can be so vulnerable.

Did I ever really care that much? Girl, preach.

adhkladk;ajdf damnit, someone remind me to download this when I get home and have my own computer so I don' t forget... this is agitating