stevie nicks released the song “Long Way to Go” on their 1989 album the other side of the mirror. The song is written about Nicks meeting with an ex partner and advice he received from a friend. In a 1989 interview with Castle Walls, Nicks elaborated on the friend’s advice about the ex-boyfriend that inspired “Long Way to Go.”
Stevie Nicks wrote ‘Long Way to Go’ about an ex-partner
“Long Way to Go” is the second track on the album the other side of the mirror. According to Music Spotlight magazine, Nicks revealed in a 1989 interview with Castle Walls that “Long Way to Go” is about a former partner.
“I remain very good friends with most of the men in my life. ‘Long Way to Go’ was not written in such a nice way. This turned out to be an experience that I had with someone that I loved very much, that … we had been separated for a long time before, a year before,” Nicks said in the interview according to Genius.
According to Music Spotlight Magazine and Genius, Nicks said in the 1989 interview that the man asked to meet even though he was hours away. When Nicks got the call from the man, he had just finished making his 1985 album. rock a little.
What Inspired Stevie Nicks’ Song ‘Long Way to Go’
Genius and Music Spotlight Magazine report that while trying to decide what to do, Nicks asked her friend, who replied, “Well, it’s a long way to go to say goodbye again. I thought now, basically… Stevie, it’s taking you a long time to get over this. Do you want to go down and start again?
Nicks ended up going anyway, but the meeting didn’t end on a happy note.
“I think the last thing I said to him was, ‘You know, it’s a long way to go to say goodbye again. I thought we already did it. Have fun, tell the world. Which basically means words we don’t say on the radio,” Nicks said in the interview, according to Genius. “I mean, she put me in the car, and she was hysterical and crying, and I cried all the way home.”
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A look at the lyrics of ‘Long Way to Go’
In “Long Way to Go”, Nicks quotes what her friend told her about visiting the man, calling the song’s theme the “high” of her “life”.
“It’s a long way to go… to say goodbye/ I thought we already did it/ Have fun… tell the world/ Well it’s a long way to go… to say goodbye/ I thought we already did it/ Have fun… tell the world,” Nicks sings on “Long Way to Go.”
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