Straight Back
 

Written by S. Nicks

What can I say this time Which card shall I play The dream is not over The dream is just away And you will fly like some little wing Straight back to the sun The dream was never over The dream has just begun The dream has just begun Fingers find the ivory keys And a song begins to begin Like a wolf on the run And you will find while in the wind Something that you lost The dream was never over, no The dream was only lost The dream has just begun The dream has just begun (Hours and hours of waiting for you, So strong and so fleeting) Well, the dream has just begun She remembers how good it can be (Hours and hours of ) He remembers a melody (Waiting for you) Ah, in the shadow of my shadow In a gleam He remembers how good it can be (Hours and hours of ) She remembers a melody (Waiting for you) Well, in the shadow of my shadow In a gleam (Hours and hours of waiting for you, So strong and so fleeting) The dream has just begun (Hours and hours of waiting this way Meeting, me) The dream has just begun (Meeting this way) Straight back now (Hours and hours of waiting, So strong and so fleeting) Straight back Straight back Straight back...yeah! He remembers a melody He remembers how good it can be

WEBMISTRESS speculates:

Stevie's comments seem directed at Lindsey, but not only about their love - it seems to me she is also talking about him staying in FM, like she did in Fireflies. They can still live the dream - it's not gone, it's just "away." Even if that dream doesn't include them being together, he needs to keep returning to FM - come home, "straight back to the sun". I wonder if Lindsey had this in the back of his mind when he wrote all those references about flying into the sun on Out of the Cradle (see Don't Look Down, Doing What I Can). They can still have a connection - they can still write music together as their "fingers find the ivory keys." In that way, he can still find "something that [he] lost" (I can't help but think of Dreams here when Stevie told Lindsey to remember what he had lost!)

Their relationship was "fleeting", but it was "so strong." She still remembers how "good it can be" - but he remembers the "melody". She's thinking about love and he's thinking about music. Interestingly enough, they switch places in the next stanza - he's remembering love, she's involved in the music. They never seem to be on the same page. In the last lines, however, he can do both - love and music. I think that's a hopeful line - it has to do with the encouragement to find the dream. She believes he can indeed do both, and that he shouldn't give up. As for the lines in the background - "hours and hours of waiting for you" - it sounds like the same kind of sentiment in That's Alright, but this time it's in the present, not the past. I think she's waiting on him to decide to come back to FM, which, this time, he does.

 

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