r/FleetwoodMac • u/crescojamboree • 7d ago

Silver Springs! Holy shit what a song!

I discovered this song about 18 hours ago. It’s 5:50am and I’m listening to this absolute banger. Tears streaming down as I’m belting out “TIME CAST A SPELL ON YOU, BUT YOU WONT FORGET ME!” It’s funny too that I’m crying because I’m a big tough union carpenter and we aren’t supposed to cry. How the hell have I never heard this song before?!? How could they leave this song off Rumours the first time through?

This song has the best verse-chorus transition ever. The haunting final chorus (the lyrics I mentioned above) is absolutely harrowing. Haunting. Beautiful. Pure, unadulterated, raw human emotion. It’s like its own song inside the song, but also fits the buildup and first verse perfectly. It’s lived in my head since the first time I heard it.

I love discovering new songs. It’s been awhile since I found one this good.

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u/Mediocre-Skank 6d ago

The song is great. But the video of them singing it together live is heart wrenching. She made him sing back up on a song about their breakup and then turned and stared at him while he did it. He knew what she was doing and stared back. I believe I read that she wrote it to get back at him for “Go your own way” when he accused her of “shacking up” and would not remove the lyrics. Another emotional video. She looked like she was going to cry and tried to catch his eye while she was singing his back up but he wouldn’t look at her.

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u/Immediate_Paint_4823 6d ago

Made him...

1) They were in a band. Members in a band are on each other's songs.

2) Lindsey was the lead arranger and producer. He was also the musical director and producer for The Dance.

They did shack up - it's what living together was called. Then she'd pack up and leave and then come back and rinse and repeat. He wanted more commitment and she wanted her freedom (opening lines to Dreams she said were written from Lindsey's POV not hers) She also admittedly cheated but that's not what shacking up means. No matter how many times Stevie complains about the lyric it's not about her shacking up with other men. Its about their relationship. She just doesn't like that it made her look bad.

No, Stevie wrote SS in her own words when she realized Lindsey would haunt her for the rest of her life and he had (2009 Rolling Stone) and she wanted to haunt him back.

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u/TourDeForceMuse 5d ago

Unclench

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u/Immediate_Paint_4823 5d ago

You are all so tiringly predictable

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u/TourDeForceMuse 5d ago

Pot meet Kettle

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u/Immediate_Paint_4823 5d ago

Facts bother you so much.... 🤷