The Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks released a new song called “The Lighthouse”, which is her first original song in four years. The track was co-written with Magnus Birgersson and Vincent Villuis.
Nicks talked about the song, saying: “I wrote this song a few months after Roe v. Wade was overturned. It seemed like overnight, people were saying ‘what can we, as a collective force, do about this…”
For me, it was to write a song. It took a while because I was on the road. Then early one morning I was watching the news on TV and a certain newscaster said something that felt like she was talking to me, explaining what the loss of Roe v. Wade would come to mean. I wrote the song the next morning and recorded it that night.”
“That was September 6, 2022. I have been working on it ever since. I have often said to myself, ‘This may be the most important thing I ever do. To stand up for the women of the United States and their daughters and granddaughters ~ and the men that love them. This is an anthem,” Stevie Nicks said.
Hear the new Stevie Nicks song “The Lighthouse”
Lyrics
“I have my scars, you have yours
Don’t let them, take your power
Don’t leave it alone in the final hours
They’ll take your soul, they’ll take your power
Don’t close your eyes and hope for the best
The dark is out there
The light is going fast
Until the final hours
Your life’s forever changed
And all the rights that you had yesterday
Are taken away
And now you’re afraid
You should be afraid
Should be afraid
Because everything I fought for
Long ago in a dream, is gone
Someone said
The dream is not over
The dream has just begun
Or
Is it a nightmare
Is it a lasting scar
It is unless you save it
And that’s that
Unless you stand up
And take it back
And take it back
I have my scars, you have yours
Don’t let them take your power
Don’t leave it alone in the final hours
They’ll take your soul they’ll take your power
Unless you stand up
And take it back
Try to see the future
And get mad
It’s slippin’ through your fingers
You don’t have what you had
You don’t have much time
To get it back
I wanna be the lighthouse
Bring all of you together
Bring it out in a song
Bring it out
In stormy weather
Tell them the story
I wanna teach ’em to fight
I wanna tell ’em
This has happened before
Don’t let it, happen again
I have my scars, you have yours
Don’t let them take your power
Don’t leave it alone in the final hours
They’ll take your soul they’ll take your power
Unless you save it
And that’s that
Unless you stand up
And take it back
Try to see the future
And get mad
It’s slippin’ through your fingers
You don’t have what you had
You don’t have much time
You’ve gotta get in the game
You’ve gotta learn how to play
You’ve gotta make a change
You’ve gotta do it today
In the midnight hour
They’ll slam the door
Make you forget what
You were fighting for
Put you back in your place
They’ll shut ya down
You better learn how to fight
You better say it out loud
This is war”