Thursday, May 5, 2011

Now here I go again, I see the crystal vision I keep my visions to myself

Artist- Fleetwood Mac
Song of the day- Dreams

Just when I decide to stop watching glee out of annoyance and bad story lines, they devote an entire episode to one of the greatest bands of all time and just maybe the greatest album. I had a young education on Fleetwood Mac thanks to my father and could sing most of the album "rumours" before I think I knew what a rumour was. And similar to my friend Morgan who's long lost dream is to be roommates with Stevie Nicks so she can brush her hair and be taught how to twirl properly, my affection for the band and all it's drama runs deep to peculiarly deep. They are masters of their craft both musically with Lindsey Buckingham's insane guitar abilities, and their songwriting both intense, relatable and catchy. I think if I had to choose only one album to listen to for the rest of my life, it just might be this one...or a live concert version so I can throw in "rhinannon" and some 80s fleetwood mac. I don't even know what to say about today's song cuz it says so much on it's own. It's a song about losing something and getting through it, but it's a song about so much more, it often has been the song that does get me through it. So if you need some getting through, this one's for you.



Now there you go again
You say you want your freedom
Well who am I to keep you down
It's only right that you should play it the way that you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat, drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering
What you had, and what you lost
what you had, and what you lost

Chorus:
Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
They say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean you'll know
You'll know

Now here I go again, I see the crystal vision
I keep my visions to myself
It's only me who wants to wrap around your dreams and
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell,
Dreams of Loneliness, like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering
What you had, And what you lost
What you had, oh what you lost

Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
They say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean you'll know

Oh thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
They say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean you'll know
You'll know
You will know
Oh oh oh you'll know

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