I Don't Want to Know
 

Written by S. Nicks; Sung by S. Nicks and L. Buckingham

I don't want to know the reasons why Love keeps right on walking on down the line I don't want to stand between you and love Honey, I just want you to feel fine I don't want to know the reasons why Love keeps right on walking on down the line I don't want to stand between you and love Honey, I just want you to feel fine Finally baby The truth has come down now Take a listen to your spirit It's crying out loud Trying to believe Oh, you say you love me, but you don't know You got me rocking and a-reeling Oh, yeah, uh-huh I don't want to know the reasons why Love keeps right on walking on down the line I don't want to stand between you and love Honey, I just want you to feel fine I don't want to know the reasons why Love keeps right on walking on down the line I don't want to stand between you and love Honey, I just want you to feel fine Finally baby The truth has been told Now you tell me that I'm crazy It's nothing that I didn't know Trying to survive Oh, you say you love me, but you don't know You got me rocking and a-reeling Hangin' onto you Oh, yeah, uh-huh I don't want to know the reasons why Love keeps right on walking on down the line I don't want to stand between you and love Honey, take a little time Oh, I don't wanna know

WEBMISTRESS speculates:

This is an interesting song. It makes me think Stevie felt a little guilty about putting Lindsey through all that pain. In answer to Lindsey's question in Go Your Own Way, she doesn't know why everything turned around, why "love keeps walking on down the line" (see Monday Morning). But even though she's gone, she still wants him to be happy and to find new love. In the second verse she tells him to follow his spirit - but I'm not sure what that means because in the next lines she's accusing him of not really loving her in the right way - "you say you love me but you don't know". And what's the truth that she's talking about? Maybe the fact that their love wasn't built to last? That Lindsey's love wasn't what it should have been?

At any rate,she goes on to say in the third verse that Lindsey calls her "crazy" when she's just "trying to survive." That almost seems like an apology - he may think she's crazy to throw away their love but she's saying she had to do it to survive. Maybe Lindsey understood this better when he made Out of the Cradle and wrote songs like Surrender the Rain about leaving because you have to. I also think it's interesting that she admits to "hanging on" to Lindsey. But she blames it on him - he's got her "rockin' and a-reelin'." Finally, she tells him to "take a little time" - it heals all wounds right? I doubt Lindsey was convinced at the time...but look at 'em now!

 

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