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“Silver Springs”

“Dear Me” – “Silver Springs” – Bio

Stevie Nicks (Stephanie Lynn Nicks)
Born May 26, 1948
American singer-songwriter, member of “Fleetwood Mac”

“Dear Me” – “Silver Springs” – Dedication

… this post is dedicated to the definition of insanity, the efforts expended for searching, and the realization that things never resolve …

“Dear Me” – “Silver Springs” – Death

… My mother, Noreen A. Whalen, passed away on December 20, 2011 …

… I can write that date without a blink of an eye or a second thought …

… I just can’t write anything further about my mom …

… My father, John B. Whalen, passed away on January 23, 2004 …

… I can write that date without a blink of an eye or a second thought …

… I just can’t write anything further about my dad …

… in my line of work, I deal with loss and dying and death on a daily basis …

… people cope with loss in different ways …

… some write about it …

… some think about it …

… some bury it …

… some ignore it …

… anger … depression … bargaining … denial …

… however … “it” never goes away …

… “it” never gets easier … “it” is always there …

… and your life is changed forever …

“Dear Me” – “Silver Springs” – Life

… but before all of all of this …

… we have to deal with life …

… in a way, formulating the “it” …

… that will never go away …

… I’d like to think that we do our best …

… I’d like to think that things work out …

… I’d like to think that our dreams are realized …

… and I wonder …

… about how things could have been …

… and how they should have resolved …

Dear Me” – “Silver Springs” – Note

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Written by Stevie Nicks, “Silver Springs” was about Lindsey [Buckingham].

And we were in Maryland somewhere driving under a freeway sign that said Silver Spring, Maryland.

And I loved the name … Silver Springs sounded like a pretty fabulous place to me

And, ‘You could be my silver springs…’, that’s just a whole symbolic thing of what you could have been to me.

By 1997, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham’s romance should have been ancient history. The pair had split two decades prior, fueling Rumours’ famously raw breakup anthems. But during a taping of a Fleetwood Mac reunion show later released as The Dance, shit once again got very real

Midway through a non-album rarity called “Silver Springs,” Nicks turned and faced her former flame as she sang the song’s rueful bridge:

“Time cast a spell on you, but you won’t forget me/I know I could have loved you but you would not let me.”

The pair locked eyes, and Nicks gradually built to a cathartic howl –

“I’ll follow you down ’til the sound of my voice will haunt you/You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you”

indicating that, for her at least, resolution had never really come.

Dear Me” – “Silver Springs” – Video

You could be my silver springs
Blue green colors flashin’
I would be your only dream
Your shining autumn, ocean crashing

And did you say she was pretty
And did you say that she loves you
Baby, I don’t wanna know

I’ll begin not to love you
Turn around, see me runnin’
I’ll say I loved you years ago
Tell myself you never loved me, no

And did you say she was pretty
And did you say that she loves you
Baby, I don’t wanna know
Oh, no
And can you tell me was it worth it
Really, I don’t wanna know

Time casts a spell on you, but you won’t forget me
I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me

Time casts a spell on you, but you won’t forget me
I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me
I’ll follow you down til’ the sound of my voice will haunt you
You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you
I’ll follow you down til’ the sound of my voice will haunt you
Stevie oversings: Was I just a fool?
You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you
Stevie oversings: Was I just a fool?
I’ll follow you down til’ the sound of my voice will haunt you
Stevie oversings: Give me just a chance

You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you
You could be my silver springs
My blue green colors flashin’

“Swingin”

Swingin – Bio

Thomas Earl Petty
Born October 20, 1950 – Died October 2, 2017
American musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer.

“Swingin” – Note

… life knocks you down …

… that gives you two options …

… stay down …

… or get back up …

… I hope George can get back up …

… [sigh] …

“Swingin” – Lyrics

well, she was standing by the highway

in her boots and silver spurs

gonna hitchhike to the yellow moon

when a Cadillac stopped for her

and she said, “Hey, nice to meet you, are you goin’ my way?”

yeah, that’s when it happened

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the world caught fire that day

and she went down

swingin’

yeah, she went down

swingin’

well, she was over twenty-one

in trouble with the law

and it didn’t faze her none

she called her mother-in-law

and said I need a little money

I know I could count on you

after that night in Vegas

and the hell that we went through

we went down

swingin’

like Benny Goodman

yeah, we went down

swingin’

yes we did

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moonlight on the interstate

she was ‘cross the Georgia line

looked out the window feeling great

yeah, it had to come in time

and she said I’m never goin’ back

she said at last I’m free

I wish ma could see me now

she’d be so proud of me

yeah, she went down

swingin’

like Glenn Miller

yeah, she went down

swingin’

like Tommy Dorsey

yeah, she went down

swingin’

like Sammy Davis

she went down

swingin’

like Sonny Liston

“What I Wish”

“What I Wish” – Bio

The Blacklist (James Spader)
Premiered September 23, 2013
American crime thriller television series.

“What I Wish” – Monologue

Have you ever sailed across an ocean, Donald?

On a sailboat surrounded by sea with no land in sight, without even the possibility of sighting land for days to come?

To stand at the helm of your destiny?

I want that one more time.

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I want to be in the Piazza del Campo in Siena, to feel the surge as ten racehorses go thundering by.

I want another meal in Paris at L’Ambroisie in the place des Vosges.

I want another bottle of wine and then another.

I want the warmth of a woman in the cool set of sheets.

One more night of jazz at the Vanguard.

I want to stand on summits and smoke Cubans and feel the sun on my face for as long as I can.

Walk on the Wall again.

Climb the Tower.

Ride the River.

Stare at the frescos.

I want to sit in the garden and read one more good book.

Give me that – Just one time.

Most of all I want to sleep – I want to sleep like I slept when I was a boy.

Give me that. Just one time.

That’s why I won’t allow that punk out there to get the best of me, let alone the last of me.”

“It Happened”

“It Happened” – Bio

Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman)
Born May 24, 1941
American poetic songwriter, singer, painter, writer, and Nobel prize laureate.

“It Happened” – Interview

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I’d like to know the meaning of the cover photo on your album, Highway 61 Revisited?
What would you like to know about it?

It seems to have some philosophy in it. I’d like to know what it represents to you – you’re a part of it . . .
I haven’t really looked at it that much.

I’ve thought about it a great deal.
It was just taken one day when I was sittin’ on the steps y’know – I don’t really remember too much about it.

I thought the motorcycle was an image in your songwriting. You seem to like that.
Oh, we all like motorcycles to some degree.

. . .

Do you prefer songs with a subtle or obvious message?
With a what???

A subtle or obvious message?
Uh – I don’t really prefer those kinds of songs at all – “message” – you mean like – what songs with a message?

Well, like “Eve of Destruction” and things like that.
Do I prefer that to what?

I don’t know, but your songs are supposed to have a subtle message.
Subtle message???

Well, they’re supposed to.
Where’d you hear that?

In a movie magazine?

“Questions, But No Answers”

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Questions, But No Answers

Michael Nesmith Song (of the Monkees)
Released 1967
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.

“Daily Nightly” is a song, written by Michael Nesmith of The Monkees, which appeared on their fourth album, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., in 1967, and was featured in two second-season episodes of their television series, “A Fairy Tale” and “Monkees Blow Their Minds”.

The record was arguably the very first rock recording to feature the Moog synthesizer, programmed by musician Paul Beaver and played by Micky Dolenz, who was the third owner of a Moog.

The lyrics are a veiled commentary on the Sunset Strip curfew riots, which occurred in Hollywood, California in late 1966.

The night has gone and taken it’s infractions
While saddened eyes hope there will be a next one
Sahara signs look down upon a world that glitters glibly
And mountain sides put arms around
The unsuspecting city
Second hands that minds have slowed are moving even faster

Toward bringing down someone who’s found
The questions, but no answers.

Questions, But No Answers – Dedication

… this post is dedicated Peter Tork who died today, February 21, 2019, at 77 years old, to the memory of Davy Jones, and to the fact I am tired of all of the greats leaving us …

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“Am I Wrong?”

“Am I Wrong?” – Bio

“Am I Wrong”
Released 2004
“Love Spit Love” – Alternative rock band founded in 1992 by singer Richard Butler during the 1990s hiatus of the Psychedelic Furs.

“Am I Wrong?” – Dedication

… this post is dedicated to Valley Forge Park benches, diners, and realizing that fear results in so much wasted time …

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“Am I Wrong?” – Meaning

The two people in “Am I Wrong” are suffering equally, with the narrator offering advice to the person he’s addressing even as he suffers through his own torment.

His opening words, “There’s too much – That I keep to myself,” suggest that the self-examination and confessions that he undertakes are not actually shared with this other person.

And it seems like the duo are the participants in a romance about to run its course: “It’s like glass/ When we break/ I wish no one in my place.”

This couple is unable to make the commitment necessary to get through these hard times, and it seems to frustrate them both: “On my fate/ You give no guarantees/ There’s no promise I can keep.”

The narrator’s angst is represented by an almost complete paralysis and deadening of the senses, as he feels unable to stand or see in the presence of his heartbreak.

“Am I Wrong?” – Love Spit Love

And yet he reaches out to this other person to try to help her through her own malaise.

In the closing verse, the narrator seems both disappointed and saddened in the transformation that has taken place: “You’re so tired in your face/ You let life get in your way.”

He keeps asking, “Am I wrong,” as if he hopes he’ll find out that he is incorrect, that there is somehow a way back to happiness for the pair.

But his refrain of “Goodbye, lay the blame on luck” is the final word, these two people writing off their failure to the winds of chance when they both know chance had nothing to do with it.