Fleetwood Mac: Gypsy Meaning
Song Released: 1982
Gypsy Lyrics
Back to the floor that I love
To a room with some lace and paper flowers
Back to the gypsy that I was
To the gypsy that I was
And it all comes down to you
Well, you know that it does, well
Lightning...
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Great song and video interpretation. It us a chilling reminder if someone I use to know. I miss her allot. I still see her in my mind's eye when I watch this. The video is like a movie short in some ways. I've watched it many times. It really takes me back. Though today I noticed something odd that I hadn't seen before. I was thinking how this video relates to time travel. She's thinking about herself when she went back to the 1930s and performed in a play or musical. If you notice when she is racing away to get out of the storm with her boyfriend, she vanishes, then reappears just a few feet away. Editing thing for sure, but pure magic. She holds the note out loudly with her arms wide open singing in the rain, "..enough to love! Her time back there was limited, and she was snatched away to the present on the second lighting strike. She reflects on her time there and is very sad because she can't go back and stay. She had good friends there that loved her. The kind of friends you only meet once in a lifetime, like many of us loose over the coarse of our lifetime. Now she's back in the present living in an attic, very lonely and broken hearted. The video goes on and seems to jump to the future, a future of eternal happiness and bliss. Maybe she found her old friends there, as they appear in different forms. Yes I think that's it! Well, I know that's not really what the songs about but there's a different take. I often dream of the past and it's like having a time machine. Very sad when I have to come back to the present. Life seems to hum by like a hand on a velvet underground store, but there is still many times to go back and visit. I didn't know all these years they were singing about lighting striking twice either.
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It’s about her 8 week old baby girl named Gypsy that she lost to crib death.
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I think this song is basically about ''The Free SPIRIT'' of the 60's and 70's that was going around and CAME DOWN to the chosen few as a lighting strike, to be played with as a ''traveling GYPSY'' by the lovely STEVIE NICKS. To which It stopped with her temporarily from going to and fro on this Earth. When in that time It was called to be with her. And now she's just going back in that rare moment of time spend there as a free spirited Gypsy that she once was, being on that FLOOR again that was full of memories of love and dreams. Wanting to last her throughout eternity with the love that was found and lost there, which would also never will be seen the same way again, roaming throughout eternity.
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It's about your precious innocence of childhood. The wonder of being alive and being in wonder stealing moments of time in joy. It's about reflecting in that love but it's bittersweet because those tender moments are gone in a bright flash back to reality. Those moments of reflection still remain and are experienced with all its beauty and wishful innocence and love, but they are gone as fast as they come (a gypsy comes and goes, steals, is poor and vagrant but choose to be possession free and moves often). Her bright eyes. Plus it very well could be her own (eyes)from the past ..,she see's and wishes to be inbodied into that beautiful and innocent mindset. But it's gone fast, just as childhood is - before you can truely experience it. And reality is hard and not as beautiful as hardships can be experience that steal from that essential part of her soul that has in body grown but in spirit still remains, albeit some wisdom through pain. Her both yearning ooohs and ahhhhh- ahhh -ahhhs are woeful, and at the same time wonderfilled. Which is what a real beautiful memory of your deep true self is- beautiful and painful in your currently reality that those moments do not remain. What and why couldn't the beauty of childhood be appreciated and remained in ones life? Both for the child and the adults in those moments? Why isn't that nurished longer? Also it seems she longs for that child to have "been enough" for whoever it was she is seeing to- past and present. It is a beautiful poem of pain and beauty of innocence and innocence lost. Hence many people are driven to the feeling of freedom and tears when listening to the song.
Masterpiece. -
It's about your precious innocence of childhood. The wonder of being alive and being in wonder stealing moments of time in joy. It's about reflecting in that love but it's bittersweet because those tender moments are gone in a bright flash back to reality. Those moments of reflection still remain and are experienced with all its beauty and wishful innocence and love, but they are gone as fast as they come (a gypsy comes and goes, steals, is poor and vagrant but choose to be possession free and moves often). Her bright eyes. Plus very well be her own from the past she see's and wishes to be inbodied into that beautiful and innocent mindset. But it's gone fast, just as childhood is - before you can truely experience it. Her both yearning ooohs and ahhhhh- ahhh -ahhhs are woeful, and at the same time wonderfilled. Which is what a real beautiful memory of your deep true self is- beautiful and painful in your currently reality that those moments do not remain. What couldn't the beauty of childhood be appreciated and remained in ones life? Both for the child and the adults in those moments? Why isn't that nurished longer? Also it seems she longs for that child to have "been enough" for whoever it was she is seeing to- past and present. It is a beautiful poem of pain and beauty of innocence and innocence lost. Hence many people are driven to the feeling of freedom and tears when listening to the song.
Masterpiece. -
It is do with irish people who like to travel in a caravan with any care in the world that's what I think it is.
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Seems to me it's about a dancer in a topless or nude club. Of course, Stevie Nicks does not offer this explanation, and I do not know if she ever experienced that lifestyle (I hope not--I wouldn't with that on any woman).
I think in the first verse the words should be, "and you see your gypsy," and in the second verse, "you're a gypsy." That is, when the lightning (a strobe light?) flashes, the customer sees "his" (your) gypsy, but in the second verse the dancer realizes that *she* (you're a)a gypsy. -
Ok, since my last post about this song I have realised why I'm not always sure why I felt this song I a happy song.
I have since heard Stevie describe the song as something that reminds her of her life, prior to Fleetwood Mac, and comforts her if her life gets to crazy. I also saw the music video clip again, first time in a long time, and it is clear that she was not in the happiest of headspace at the time.
I also saw her 1982 (1983?) live performance of the song where she performed the song while crying her eyes and heart out. She can't have found the song easy to perform when some of the inspiration, for the song, was her best friend who had died. I could not do it like she does.
The song now comforts me when I remember my sister who died when she was just 33 years old ('I still see your bright eyes...') -
My favourite song off 'Tango in the night' I saw the music video clip again just recently. It's just so fabulous and girly, with Stevie in her ballet finery dancing around. I just love it! For me, it is a happy song, though I'm not always sure why.
Is this the story of a woman looking back on her life? Or musing about how her life could've been different?
I love her dancing in the forest with the children, it is a video that makes me smile! xx :)
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