“Big Love” is a showcase song for Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, who described it as a “lustful mid-to-up tempo number featuring love grunts.” These grunts, which get pretty aggressive at the end of the song, sound like they’re coming from two different people, but they’re both Buckingh...
[Verse 1]
Looking out for love
In the night so still
Oh, I'll build you a kingdom
In that house on the hill
[Chorus]
Looking out for love
Big, big love
[Verse 2]
You said that you love me
And that you always will
Oh, you begged me to keep you
In that house on the hill
[Chorus]
Looking out for love
Big, big love
[Post-Chorus]
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
[Bridge]
I wake up
Alone with it all
I wake up
But only to fall
[Chorus]
Looking out for love
Big, big love
Just looking out for love
Big, big love
[Outro]
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
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Big Love was written by Lindsey Buckingham.
Big Love was produced by Richard Dashut & Lindsey Buckingham.
Fleetwood Mac released Big Love on Mon Mar 23 1987.
According to Rolling Stone, Lindsey Buckingham said:
It was about a guy who was kind of a lonely guy on a hill in a house, kind of hanging out by himself. When I look back on it now, I’m still living on the same hill, but in a new house and with a family, from a whole different perspective. So the...
Rolling Stone named it the #15 greatest Fleetwood Mac song, saying:
Buckingham described the smoothly rolling first single from Tango in the Night as a ‘lustful
mid-to-up-tempo number featuring love grunts.’ As it turns out, the sex-soaked ‘ah’ to Buckingham’s ‘uh’ that we hear wasn’t a vocal throw...