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There's a real heartbreaker from me, too. A heartbreaker, called Silver
Springs. Yeah, that's my, that's my alias on the road, "Miss Silver Spring".
[When asked about how the song came about] Just a, uh, a sign in, in Virginia
or something that said, you know, next exit Silver Springs and I just thought
it was ... yeah, I thought it was wonderful ~ so I just went home and wrote this
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I wrote Silver Springs uh, about Lindsey. And I ~ 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 uh, 'You could be my silver springs...' that's just a whole symbolic thing
of what you could have been to me. |
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You have to realize that Silver Springs was so genuinely kicked off the record
20 years ago, and I was so genuinely devastated...because I loved the song and
it was one of the Rumours songs. So I never thought that Silver Springs would
ever be performed on stage, would ever be heard of again so it, like, and my beautiful
song just disappeared. So for it to come back around like this has really
been, really special to me. |
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[On why she wrote Silver Springs and what she wanted
to say to Lindsey] 'I'm so angry with you. You will listen to me on the
radio for the rest of your life, and it will bug you. I hope it bugs you.' |
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In six weeks of rehearsal, it [performing Silver Springs for the MTV
special] was never like that...Only on Friday night did we let it go into something
deeper. When we went on Friday, I knew we'd bring it out in case it was the last
thing we'd ever do. The other shows were really, really good, but they weren't
the show I wanted to leave behind. This show was...I wanted people to stand back
and really watch and understand what [the relationship with Lindsey] was."
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Well, since that performance I have to sing Silver Springs to him almost
every day, so Lindsey and I get to do and say things that we wouldn't get to say
to each other in real life. It's like a release. Even now, we don't talk much,
so when those songs come around and are directly involved with our relationship
it's very therapeutic to work that stuff out. This way we get to have closure. |
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I cast a spell on you...you won't forget me. |
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I wrote it for Rumours, and fourteen years ago I walked into the studio
and the record was basically done. It was at the Record Plant, and Mick said,
'Stevie, I need vou to come outside to the parking lot cause I need to talk to
vou for a minute.' And I knew it was reallv serious 'cause Mick never asks you
to go out to the parking lot for anything. So we walked to the huge Record Plant parking lot and he said, 'I'm taking Silver Springs off the record.' And, of course, my first reaction was, 'Why?' And he said, 'There's a lot of reasons, but because basicallv it's just too long. And we think that there's another of vour songs that's better, so that's what we want to do.' Before I started to get upset about Silver Springs, I said, 'What other song?' And he said, 'A song called I Don't Want To Know.' And I said, 'But I don't want that song on this record.' And he said, 'Well, then don't sing it.' And then I started to scream bloody murder and probablv said every horriblv
mean thing that you could possibly say to another human being, and walked back
in the studio completely flipped out. I said, 'Well, I'm not gonna sing I Don't
Want To Know. I am one-fifth of this band.' And they said. 'Well, if vou don't
like it, you can either (a) take a hike or (b) you better go out there and sing
I Don't Want To Know or you're only gonna have two songs on the record.'
And so, basically, with a gun to my head, I went out and sang I Don't Want
To Know. And they put Silver Springs on the back of Go Your Own
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