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Originally Posted by paleshadow

Everything was (and still is) so rehearsed that it's hard to imagine that she would break down at that point. Plus, although I haven't listened to the track in a while, from what I remember the vocals are pretty bad right out of the gate. It's just more romantic to think she got caught up in the emotions of the song.

Listening to the boot now, her voice is obviously going throughout the song. My one problem with the "she left the stage because she couldn't sing it" thesis, though, is that we've all seen what Stevie does when she's having trouble on a tune: she keeps going. I'm sure there's at least one example from every tour (off the top of my head, Silver Springs in Nashville from this year, Insider in North Carolina with Tom Petty, etc), where Stevie's voice cracks, breaks down, or she flubs on entire verses. Never, though, has she given up because of it. To me, it makes more sense for a vocal problem for her to stay on the stage and catch Lindsey eye and convey to him to finish it out rather than to leave in a fluster and draw more attention to what's happening.