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(Credits: Far Out \/ Atlantic Catalog Group)<\/p>\n
There are certain lyrics that haunt you. They stay with you from the very second you first hear them, punched into your soul and your brain with all the strength of their emotional power, like the singer or the songwriter, hurled them right at you like a swift right jab to the heart. It\u2019s one thing to land a punch; it\u2019s a whole other thing to make it linger. On \u2018Silver Springs\u2019, Stevie Nicks<\/a> landed a hit that was designed to last a lifetime. <\/p>\n Nicks has penned many savage lyrics about the world, about people she loved and even about herself. Her pen is a sharp, introspective one that has never feared a bit of cutting. But she\u2019s also not unfamiliar with being the one getting cut by someone else\u2019s words.<\/p>\n I guess to be an artist, and to love an artist, is to accept that art will come like wedding vows; for better or for worse, in sickness and in health. When Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks first met and fell in love, and when they began collaborating, both of them likely knew the contract they were sort of signing into, stating that at the end, things could get messy and they could get messy in song. It was inevitable that both parties would write about their split simply because that\u2019s what artists do and that\u2019s how they process things. They just likely didn\u2019t think they\u2019d have to be doing it in the same room.<\/p>\n Rumours demanded that, though. After one album of blissful collaboration when the pair joined Fleetwood Mac as a double-act, they split up. The exact reasons are unknown, as they often are when a long-term relationship breaks down. There was no one major betrayal or one big final fight, instead, it was a mess of disagreements and small ways both of them had changed, especially as their new fame packed on added pressure. It could have been an amicable split<\/a> because of that, but as both wanted to stay in the band, the band demanded material. <\/p>\n Then it became painful. Buckingham wrote \u2018Go Your Own Way\u2019, leaving Nicks feeling deeply insulted<\/a> by its lyrics. She wrote \u2018Dreams\u2019 to try and purge her own feelings, but that wasn\u2019t quite enough. They collaborated on tracks like \u2018The Chain\u2019 and \u2018I Don\u2019t Want To Know\u2019. But as the arguments in the studio got worse and worse as the emotional tensions kept boiling over, nothing was good enough. Nicks needed to throw her punch.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham (Credits: Far Out \/ Polydor)<\/p>\n