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I always put something at the end that says there's hope. You know, 'When
the rain washes you clean you'll know.' And that's an old Indian [Native American]
custom...that if it rains ~ something like that ~ when somebody dies, if it rains
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Dreams was uh about Lindsey and I ~ it was me trying to be philosophic
once again, Whether or not I succeeded I don't know. I love the song Dreams.
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Love affairs are timeless, I mean, they don't change. That's why these songs
[on Rumours] are timeless, I
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When we were first recording the Rumours record we spent two months
in Sausalito at the Record Plant, and as far as I'm concerned that's when we actually
recorded the record. It took another eight months after that , but the tracks
were all done there. Um, while they're doing all kinds of stuff and there's nothing
for me to do, I went next door to Sly Stone's studio within the building, this
big like black and red room with a kind of a stairway that went down into this
like kind of tunnel thing where people would set up and play around this like
light house sort of setup. And I took my little Fender Rhodes piano in there and
I wrote Dreams. And I spent about an hour in there, and then I went back
in to Fleetwood Mac and actually was brave enough to just play, play it for them,
cause I really thought it was good, [smiles] and uh, and they liked it and we
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And that's why they're timeless to me and that's why I can walk out on the stage
today and still sing them... and still feel the same way as when I wrote them
is because I can remember so how I felt at that point, and I can remember the
tears, and I can remember how hard it was for me to play Dreams the first
time, for the whole band, because I know it would probably really upset Lindsey,
and probably really upset Chris and John, and probably really upset Mick and really
upset me. And if I could even get through it I'd be lucky.
Lindsey
writes Go Your Own Way and I write Dreams! I write philosophically,
he writes angry! So yes, a lot of the stuff that, you know, little sentences or
stuff that he would say would upset me! However, as a songwriter, I have to respect
that he's gonna write about what's happening to him, and so am I. So I could never
say to him, you know, back off! ... stop writing songs about me, because that
was his life then and that's when the best songs are written and it doesn't really
matter who breaks up with who at that point, that's when everybody writes the
best songs ... and that's what happened on Rumours! I mean, maybe we would have
killed each other if we hadn't have been able to write those songs, you know ...
if we hadn't have been able to put that energy into the music and rise above it
that way, then maybe we would have just gone totally freaked out on each other!
