and nothing else mattered.'Īnd I just sat there and held his little hand, and he died. And I see you doing what I tried to do for me, with the words of a poet, and the voice of a choir and a melody. The music there, it was hauntingly familiar. And, 'So I went today, maybe I will go again tomorrow. And there was just real quiet music playing. ~Stevie Nicks, Rolling Stone, September 3, 1981Īnd my aunt's house, when my uncle died, was like, very pale yellow. 'I hear the call of the nightbird singing. The white-winged dove in the song is a spirit that is leaving a body, and I felt a great loss at how both Johns were taken. He was home and my aunt had some music softly playing, and it was a perfect place for the spirit to go away.

tomorrow' refers to seeing him the day before he died. The line 'And the days go by like a strand in the wind' that's how fast those days were going by during my uncle's illness, and it was so upsetting to me. ~Stevie Nicks, Timespace Liner Notes, 1991 I did run out into the hallway, but no one was there. so I sat there and held his hand, and sometime right about sunset, he turned his head slightly to John, and then to me, and his hand slowly let go of mine. and I sat on his bedside, while John sat on the floor beside him, and we stayed there. and went to visit my uncle (who was very sick), not knowing that no one but his son, John, was there. A terrible sadness set in over the house, there was simply nothing I could say. Anyway, it was a real life fairy tale and I believed it. and I was entranced because I could not imagine these two together.

Jimmy had told me many times about his incredible friendship with John Lennon how John had taken Jimmy in and taught him to record. I was ready to begin Bella Donna and it seemed like it would just never happen. I was also starting to feel very unimportant and very sorry for myself. He was coming to the end of Tom Petty's seemed I had waited a long time, and since no one really knew where I was, I was starting to get very edgy to do something. I had lived up in the hills with Jimmy for almost six months. That no one really ever heard fall at all Well the music there, well it was hauntingly

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