Stevie Nicks Shares Surprise Message for Taylor Swift in The Tortured Poets Department

Stevie Nicks wrote a poem to accompany Taylor Swift’s new album, The Society of Tortured Poets.

The legendary singer-songwriter’s lyrics are included as a prologue to the pop star’s 11th studio album, which is already receiving rave reviews from critics.

The poem reads, in part: “He was in love with her / Or at least she thought so / She was heartbroken / Maybe he was too / Neither of them knew it,” writes Nicks.

“She was way too hot to handle / He was way too high to try…

“He really can’t answer her / He’s afraid of her / He’s hiding from her / And he knows he’s hurting her / She’s telling the truth / She’s writing about it / She’s an informant / He’s an ex-lover…

“There’s nothing for her / She’s already gone / There’s nothing that can stop her.”

The poem ends: “She was flying / through the clouds / When he saw her / She was just heading / towards the stars / When he lost her…”

Nicks has expressed her admiration for Swift on several occasions, including at the climax of her set at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, as she paid tribute to her late Fleetwood Mac bandmate Christine McVie.

“Thanks to Taylor Swift for doing this thing for me, which was writing a song called ‘You’re on Your Own, Kid,'” Nicks told the audience.

“It’s the sadness of what I feel. As long as Chris was there, even on the other side of the world, we didn’t need to talk on the phone. We weren’t really friends on the phone.

“Then we’d go back to Fleetwood Mac, and we’d come in and we’d be like, ‘Little sister, how are you?’ It was like never a minute had passed, never an argument in our 47 years.

She continued: “So when it was just the two of us, we were alone, kids, we always were. And now I have to learn to be alone, kid, alone. So help me do this. THANKS.”

Nicks echoed those comments when discussing the future of Fleetwood Mac following the death of Christine McVie last October.

“When I think of Taylor Swift’s song ‘You’re on Your Own, Kid’ and the line ‘you always were,’ it was like it was Christine and me,” he said. she declared. Vulture.

“We were alone in this group. We always have been. We protected ourselves.

Swift and Nicks also appeared together at the Grammy Awards in 2010, performing Fleetwood Mac’s “Rhiannon” and Swift’s “You Belong With Me.”

“Taylor reminds me of myself with her determination and childlike nature. It’s an innocence so special and so rare,” Nicks wrote in an article for Time published shortly after the ceremony, in which Swift won album of the year for her sophomore record, Fearless.

“This girl writes the songs that make the whole world sing, like Neil Diamond or Elton John. She sings, she writes, she acts, she plays guitar really well,” Nicks continued.

“Taylor can do ballads that could be considered pop or rock and then go back to country. When I was 20, I had just made the serious decision to never become a dental assistant. Taylor just turned 20 and she’s won four Grammys.

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