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WEBMISTRESS speculates:
This song is SO good, great beat, I hope someday it makes a Fleetwood Mac album! After all, both Lindsey AND Stevie wrote it, their first collaboration since Frozen Love of Buckingham Nicks. Now, I've never heard the original, just read about it care of Javier Pacheco, formerly of Fritz, in his interview on The Penguin. Stevie's chorus was the same except that the first line was "A deep sense of a funny kind of love." I assume the verses are Lindsey's. Now, I don't know much about music, but if I were to guess, I'd say that probably the tune was mostly Stevie's and Lindsey jazzed it up a la Rhiannon - but again, that's just a speculation! Now, Javier says the original was about the breakup of Fritz, a breakup that led to Stevie and Lindsey getting involved and going off as Buckingham Nicks...the start of that wild journey!
Lindsey has such a fancy for cycles, and this would work with that, because I think he's using this old song to detail that cycle from beginning to end regarding his relationships with Stevie and Fleetwood Mac.
I believe the first part refers to his past with Stevie: "I did a good job of falling" sounds a bit wry to me. He's a real perfectionist, and he did a perfect job of falling in love as well... when he fell in love, he fell in love hard. But in Stevie's case, that just meant it was harder for him when it ended. He was calling out for her at night, he was having such a hard time getting over it. Every time he thought he was over it, it kept flaring up again. Stevie didn't want to let him go, so she kept trying to pull him back again when it looked like he was getting too far away. He can't have Stevie, but she won't let him go... he can't win.
I believe in the first chorus he is also still talking about Stevie: His love for her was unique, it was deep and it was dense (gotta love that word to describe love, it's very original way to express the intensity of the emotion). It was strange, not like the usual love story of two people who meet and fall madly in love and are together forever. It's the love story of two people who were in love and out of love, and have a permanent attachment that will always be there even after the romance itself has ended. It's the love of exes, at the end of a relationship that was pretty much a common-law marriage. Stevie's said as much numerous times! Breaking up with her was like a divorce. Still, it's more than the love of exes, it's more complex than that... there was still a deep, "denser" emotional undercurrent there that made the connection impossibly hard to sever.
In the second verse, I believe he's transitioning over to FM, talking about both FM and Stevie here. He had a breakdown in the middle of the hit of Rumours, and he was at the end of his rope. But he did a good job of falling once again, because the falling part of his relationship with Stevie, and consequently of himself, led to one of the biggest selling records of all-time, Rumours... and his biggest hit henceforth, Go Your Own Way. Because of the circumstances surrounding it, however, it's hard for him to feel he's truly won despite all his then-new-found success and fame. It came at too high a price. Also, now that he'd done such a good job on Rumours, it was very hard to escape from it. Its immense success keeps "comin' back again" and overshadowing future endeavors such as Tusk. Finally, he said "This is it", he had to call it quits - he had to leave the band.
I believe the third verse applies to FM and how it stood with them in 1997. Things are "comin' back again" - he's come full circle to find a new beginning with FM. The ten years refer to his ten years away from them, when he thought he had to be on his own to be happy. However, he's now found that he doesn't have to run from FM in order to be himself - it's not a choice of one or the other, he can have both. He's tested himself and he's come out of it stronger (similar in sentiment to Street of Dreams). He's now strong enough to be a part of FM without losing himself.
Thus, I believe the chorus, while not changing lyrically, changes in meaning to apply to FM. His relationship with FM is "kinda like a marriage" in the commitment and personal give and take it requires...when he left it, it was broken up. But, now he's realized that they're a part of him that he just can't let go of without letting go of a piece of himself. It's a "funny kind of love," but there is a lotta love there nonetheless! And despite the fact that he tried to run away from it, he knows now he no longer has to.
All this complex emotions come together to make that deep, dense, funny kind of love that's something very different indeed.
FRITZ BANDMEMBER JAVIER PACHECO speculates:
I finally listened to the song in question, Deep Dense. It is unmistakably a take-off on Stevie's song. The chords are also very similar. I have to think he wrote this to imply he was referring to his relationship with Stevie, I can think of no other reason for taking her song and altering it in this way.
I like what he does on guitar here. MY only problem with the song is that it doesn't seem to go to a climax. Dynamic-wise, it seems very flat to me. The industrial noises he adds to the grind of this piece seem (to me) to symbolize a kind of routine or mechanical repetition in his expression, like the grinding wheels that don't stop, like looking at a relationship you can't shake off. But I guess I get lost in some of Lindsey's ambiguities. The Stevie song "Funny Kind of Love" has no ambiguities, its very clear in what it is saying, very much to the point. IT is a country song but I kinda like it better than this newer version which to me, seems more controlled and almost cloaked in mystery.