You could’ve just broken up with me and left. And, you know, you didn’t have to cut me up. Um, just very tribal, very simple and just this crazy story, you know, about two people who are breaking up but when he gets to that chorus and says ‘you didn’t have to cut me up’, I think again, we all feel that way sometimes, you know, like when somebody breaks up with us or flip it, when we break up with somebody, sometimes you’re just so mean. It’s kind of like something that could’ve been on Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Tusk’ record. Um, it was playing out of every apartment, out of every house, out, I’m sure, out of every dorm just like, uh, songs like Led Zeppelin were being played out of every house and every dorm and, uh, every car when I was going to San Jose State in the seventies. Uh, this song is, as my friend Steven Tyler said, one of those songs that truly does change the face of music. iHeart Radio is now 24 Karat Gold Radio. Or at least that you would know and that there would be truth and lots of times there just isn’t. You wish, you wish everyone would always remain faithful. It’s, uh, again metaphorically, you know, um, it’s how you wish everything would be.
And that’s what ‘If You Were My Love’ signifies and at the end when it says ‘they say everyone must remain faithful’ that’s what the original song said and I chose to just say ‘faithful’ at the end of it instead of putting in the ‘they say everyone must remain faithful’.
And, but you weren’t there and they weren’t safe. And, um, but isn’t that how we always feel about everything - if we’d’ve been there, you would’ve been safe. And it’s like right out of a medieval garden with the knight and the princess or the maiden are ensconced in that garden and something has happened to him and she’s trying to explain to him that ‘had I been there, you would have been safe’. I think that it’s me trying to protect somebody and I don’t remember exactly who it was who I was trying to protect but it was definitely someone. ‘If You Were My Love’ is my own personal little Game of Thrones. All of my favorite music in one place, including my album 24 Karat Gold: Songs from The Vault. Hi, this is Stevie Nicks playing Guest DJ on iHeart Radio. Starshine was a demo I cut with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in the basement of Tom’s house, I think, in probably 1980, and, uh, it was destined to not make the record - the Bella Donna record - but, uh, I’m really glad that it didn’t because it was able to be on this record. Regardless, all the content is here so hopefully that's of some use. I also don't know which track was first, per se I just worked from the recording someone provided online. So for anyone who's deaf, who can't be arsed to listen to the programme, or who wants it for the sake of reference, this is my transcript of the whole thing.
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