"Battle of the Dragon" lyrics

[ragrsrocalot]

Originally Posted by vivfox

It's interesting that you've come up with the questioning of the lyrics. I've been thinking about starting a thread on this song lately. There has been a few changes in the lyrics that have been spoken about in another thread as well. The song takes on a whole new meaning to me now.

In the 1980's when this song was new I related it to being written about Stevie and her relationship to the other members of Fleetwood Mac. Nowadays I realize that the song has another meaning. That of her drug addiction.

I always thought she said, "this is not preplanned, but after some cause, I decided to go to the other side of the world"

I always thought she said, "and the reason that I paint you in my paintings, and the reasons I record the sounds of your voices"

I always thought she said, "straight among the living"

she actually said, "but after some calls"

she actually said, "the reasons I recall the sounds"

she actually says," stay among the living"


In my original interpretation, she had a cause to go to Australia to be onstage with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty, but then I recently was informed this song was written pre-1986.
She writes so many songs about Lindsey, Christine and Mick so I figured she was recording the "sounds" of their voices. In other words, the actual words they have spoken.
And then her saying she got the message straight among the living really had no special meaning. It simply was a misheard lyric.

I always heard it as " the reason I record the sound of your voices ".
I always thought she meant Lori, and Sharon, because she records their voices on her demos and albums.