You gotta keep a-runnin' 'cause you can't go back
Everybody's lookin' for a home
You know you had it all but it had to fall
When you said that you'd go it alone
Yeah, you'd go it alone

Neither love nor money gonna keep you away
You can't stop the rollin' of a stone
Take that, leave that, runnin' on the same track
It's hard, you know, when you go it alone
Whole lotta luck to you, Liddy Buckingham
Whole lotta luck to you, Liddy Buck
When you go it alone

And it's been too long
It's gone too far
Go tear down the sky for a star
Whole lotta luck to you, Liddy Buckingham
Whole lotta luck to you, Liddy Buck
Whole lotta luck to you, Liddy Buck

You gotta keep a-runnin' 'cause you can't go back
Everybody's lookin' for a home
You know you had it all but it had to fall
When you said that you'd go it alone
Yeah, you'd go it alone

And it's been too long
It's gone too far
Gonna tear down the sky for a star
Whole lotta luck to you, Liddy Buckingham
Whole lotta luck to you, Liddy Buck

Gonna tear down the sky, tear down the sky
Gonna tear down the sky for a star
Whole lotta luck to you, Liddy Buckingham
Whole lotta luck to you, Liddy Buck

Gonna tear down the sky, tear down the sky
Gonna tear down the sky for a star
Whole lotta luck to you, Liddy Buckingham
Whole lotta luck to you, Liddy Buckingham
Gonna tear down the sky, tear down the sky...

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WEBMISTRESS speculates:

OK, so Lindsey didn't actually appear on this song, but it's about him, so how could we exclude it from the website? John Stewart explains his reasons for writing it in the liner notes of this album: "Lindsey Buckingham from Fleetwood Mac wrote a song on his first solo album called Johnny Stew. I thought I'd return the favor with Liddy Buck. It's about this time in his life when they were recording the Tusk album and he was deliberating leaving the band if he couldn't record some tracks on his own. I tried to simulate a Lindsey-esque track as best as I could as a homage to him. He always was and will continue to be a great inspiration to me."

John Stewart was successful in imitating Lindsey's sound from that era, in my opinion, as he uses the same basic beat that sounds like it was pounded out on a garbage can, and that same simplistic use of chords Lindsey was using on his songs at that time - you know, that bababa, bumbumbum, bababa, bumbumbum type of thing. As for the "Liddy" part, I guess he didn't like the way "Lindy" sounded (too close to LBJ?) and just "Lindsey" wasn't cute enough - so we have "Liddy." I wonder, did anybody ever really call him that? It sounds like the name of someone's maiden aunt!

 

VICTORIA speculates:

Here is a quote from John Stewart regarding the title "Liddy Buck" -

JS: (Sings) ''Everybody talking 'bout the...'', I can't really recall. I tell you how the song came about. I went by the session when Lindsey was making the "Law and Order" album. He'd a very funny guy called Richard Dashut engineering, and the song was called something else at the time. We started to make colourful names for each other. We thought my career could be resurrected if I used a colourful country name like The Amazing Johnny Stew, and Lindsey would become Liddy Buck. So he went out there and started singing, "Stew. Everybody's talking 'bout The Amazing Johnny Stew," and Richard Dashut went, "Right, that's what the song is about." Lindsey then put some words to it and I really don't know what they are either. Can you make them out at all?

(Interviewer): No.

JS: Right. If anyone knows, write in.