Nothing Ever Changes
 

 Written by S. Nicks and S. Stewart
 

If it's me that's driving you to this madness
There's just one thing that I'd like to say
Would you take a look at your life and your lovers
Nothing ever changes

Ooh...it was just the first time
That I ever played for you
I could be the dancer of your dreams

I can turn all your music on
I can make you feel alive
I am gone but I'm never gone from you
It was just the first time

Come back
Little boy
Baby, come back
Yeah...little boy

Ooh...it's just me that lies waiting
Well, it could come from anywhere
Oh...it could come straight, straight from my heart
Nothing can be saved here

I can turn all your music on
I can make you feel alive
I am gone but I'm never gone from you
It was just the first time

Come back
Little boy
Baby, come back
Yeah...little boy

Come back
Little boy
Baby, come back
Yeah...little boy

Nothing ever changes
No, it doesn't
Nothing ever changes
Ooh, you know it doesn't
Nothing ever changes
You know it doesn't
Nothing ever changes

Come back
Baby, come back
Baby, come back
Baby, come back
Come back, come back, come back, come back
Baby, come back
Baby, come back, yeah
Come back, come back, come back, come back
Come back
If it's me that's driving you to this madness..
Baby, come back
Baby, come back
Come back, come back, come back, come back
Baby, come back
Baby, come back

 

WEBMISTRESS speculates:

This album came out about the same time as Lindsey's Go Insane and I think this song might have been a response to the title track of that album. She says he claims that she's the one to blame for his inner turmoil, but he's doing it to himself. He keeps repeating the same destructive patterns - she asks him to look at who he's with. I think that even Lindsey admits to Stevie that his girlfriend at the time, Carol Ann, was "a lot like you" (see Go Insane). Stevie goes on to talk about how, even though they're not together, she's "never gone from" him - she can still provide him inspiration for all that angry music! She encourages him to "come back" - to deal with her. In fact, she's lying in wait for him to deal with her - if he doesn't, "nothing can be saved here." She repeats at the end that she's not the one to blame - he is, because he never changes - and changing is that big problem that keeps popping up (see, for instance, Outside the Rain)!

 

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