"Gypsy" is a song by the rock group Fleetwood Mac. Stevie Nicks wrote the song originally circa 1979, and the earliest demo recordings were recorded in early 1980 with Tom Moncrieff for possible inclusion on her solo debut Bella Donna. However, when Nicks' friend Robin Anderson died of leukemia, the song took on a new inspiration and Nicks held it over for Fleetwood Mac. "Gypsy" was the second single release and second biggest hit from the Mirage album following "Hold Me." "Gypsy" reached a healthy #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. The video for this song,which is directed by Russell Mulcahy, was the very first "World Premiere Video" on MTV in 1982
The song was featured in the "Silent Knight" episode of the television series Knight Rider.
Lyrics
So Im back, to the velvet underground 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 strikes, maybe once, maybe twice Ah, and it lights up the night And you see your gypsy You see your gypsy
To the gypsy that remains faces freedom with a little fear I have no fear, I have only love And if I was a child And the child was enough Enough for me to love Enough to love
She is dancing away from me now She was just a wish She was just a wish And a memory is all that is left for you now You see your gypsy You see your gypsy
Lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice And it all comes down to you
And it all comes down to you
Lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice And it all comes down to you
I still see your bright eyes, bright eyes And it all comes down to you I still see your bright eyes, bright eyes And it all comes down to you
I still see your bright eyes, bright eyes (she was just a wish) (she was just a wish) And it all comes down to you
Lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice And it all comes down to you
Big Love" is a song by Fleetwood Mac, that appeared on their 1987 album Tango in the Night. The song was the first single to be released from the album, reaching #5 on the US charts and #9 in the UK.
"Big Love" was written by Lindsey Buckingham, and was originally going to be part of his third solo album which he began working on in 1985, but the project became a Fleetwood Mac album instead. The song epitomised the stylised production techniques used on the album, with its provocative "oh - ahh" male/female vocal exchange. Though many assumed the female "ahh" to be Stevie Nicks, it was actually Lindsey Buckingham performing both, created by way of his voice being sampled and altered in the studio to mimic that of a woman.
Lyrics
Looking out for love In the night so still Oh I'll build you a kingdom In that house on the hill Looking out for love Big, big love
You said that you love me And that you always will Oh you begged me to keep you In that house on the hill Looking out for love Big, big love
I wake up alone With it all I wake up But only to fall
Looking out for love Big, big love Just looking out for love Big, big love
"Synchronicity II" is a song by The Police recorded in 1983 and was included on their hit album Synchronicity. It was released as a single in the UK by A&M Records. The third UK single from the album, it reached #17 in the charts in October 1983. It featured non-album track "Once Upon A Daydream" on the b-side.
Sting explained the theme of the song to Time magazine:
"Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos. Our song Synchronicity II is about two parallel events that aren't connected logically or causally, but symbolically."
The memorable music video for the song was directed by Godley & Creme.
Lyrics
Another suburban family morning Grandmother screaming at the wall We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies We can't hear anything at all Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration But we know all her suicides are fake Daddy only stares into the distance There's only so much more that he can take Many miles away Something crawls from the slime At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake
Another industrial ugly morning The factory belches filth into the sky He walks unhindered through the picket lines today He doesn't think to wonder why The secretaries pout and preen like cheap tarts in a red light street But all he ever thinks to do is watch And every single meeting with his so-called superior Is a humiliating kick in the crotch Many miles away Something crawls to the surface Of a dark Scottish loch
Another working day has ended Only the rush hour hell to face Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes Contestants in a suicidal race Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance He knows that something somewhere has to break He sees the family home now looming in his headlights The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache Many miles away There's a shadow on the door Of a cottage on the shore Of a dark Scottish lake Many miles away, many miles away
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