One of My Favourite Songs

This photo that Megan took stirred something deep within. I was finishing Grade 12 at the end of '79 when I discovered the song, Storms, on Fleetwood Mac's Tusk album and I would play the song over and over again, trying to relieve teenage angst and loneliness and boyfriend blues! I also played it in the early 80's as I tried to sort out my life and future and that boyfriend. It seemed to say everything I couldn't - which, in 2010 at 47, all seems overly dramatic but at the time, 30 years ago now, it was oh so relevant and real!

Storms

Every night that goes between

I feel a little less

As you slowly go away from me

This is only another test

Every night you do not come

Your softness fades away

Did I ever really care that much

Is there anything left to say

Every hour of fear I spend

My body tries to cry

Living through each empty night

A deadly calm inside

I haven't felt this way I feel

Since many a year ago

But in those years and the lifetimes past

I did not deal with the road

And I did not deal with you I know

Tho the love has always been

So I search to find an answer there

So I can truly win

Every hour of fear I spend

My body tries to cry

Living through each empty night

A deadly calm inside

So I try to say

Goodbye my friend

I'd like to leave you with something warm

But never have I been a blue calm sea

I have always been a storm

I have always been a storm

Ooh I have always been a storm

I have always been a storm

Stevie Nicks said it so much better than I ever could! Many, many years later, around 2003,  I rediscovered Fleetwood Mac and bought a Greatest Hits double CD - and there was Storms - and right from the very first note I was back in 1979 in amongst all those memories! I smiled to myself and it made me a little bit wistful and nostalgic but not sad.

When I drive in the car alone I PLAY IT REALLY LOUD!