Ha! Cute!
Ha! Cute!
"They will never forget you 'till somebody new comes along"
1948-2016 Gone but not forgotten
As Stevie fans know, she is infamous for saying the same songs are about completely different things/people depending on her mood and for reasons only she herself knows. Still, this latest self-contradiction made me laugh out loud!
From EW.com, 2009:
EW: Some people have said [Sara] is about Don Henley, whom you dated around that time too...
"He wishes! If Don wants to think the' 'house' [from the line "if you build your house"] was one of the 90 houses he built—and he did build house after beautiful house, and once they were done, he would move because he wasn’t interested in them anymore [laughs]... No. He is one of my best friends in the world. If anything happened to me, he would be there, always. But if someone said that, they're so full of s---!"
Well, Stevie, SOMEONE did say that....
From US Magazine, July 1990
[On whether the line in the song Sara, 'When you build your house, I'll come by' is about Don Henley, whom she was dating at the time?]
Stevie: (laughs) "That is true. He did [build the house]. And I was in it before he finished it."
Ah, Stevie Nicks, woman of a thousand stories, lol. Or is this her version of April Fools?
Our Stevie is a wee bit fickle I say!!!
He sings it high, he plays it low
Oh well - a girl can't be expected to remember everything - especially if it happened in the 70's!
"People don't run out of dreams: People just run out of time ..."
Glenn Frey 11/06/1948 - 01/18/2016
LOL!
you better put it all behind you, baby, 'cause life goes on
you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside--
It happened in the 70s and she is 60 so she should be able to see things any way she wants to. lol
I was talking to a couple of friends about this, friends who love Stevie and follow her words and were just as surprised by this as I was because she has said that the line is about Don so many times (the above is just one example of many). We came up with a theory...
As you guys know, Sara is (at least partially) about a sensitive subject and Don told a magazine c. 1991 that the whole song was about their aborted child. While Stevie has said the "house" line is about Don before, she's never confirmed what Don said about the song being a tribute to the spirit of the baby (although an examination of the lyrics bears him out). This question... that asks if the song is about Don.. might have hit too close to home and she went into "deflect the question" mode.
Makes a bit more sense than a complete contradiction of something she's said so many times!
Were I the songwriter, I would fabricate 14,000 alternate explanations to disguise the true origin of "Sara." I concur with the suggestion that she's deflecting; it seems completely reasonable behavior on her part. Just my opinion (though isn't everything, really?).
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He sings it high, he plays it low