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“Sara” was the second single released from Tusk. It was a top 20 hit in five countries including the US where it peaked at #7 in February 1980.
The song was written about several different tragedies in Stevie Nick’s life around the time Fleetwood Mac was recording the Tusk album. It covers her secr...
[Intro]
Wait a minute baby...
Stay with me awhile
Said you'd give me light
But you never told me 'bout the fire
[Verse 1]
Drowning in the sea of love
Where everyone would love to drown
But now it's gone
It doesn't matter what for
When you build your house
Then call me home
[Bridge]
And he was just like a great dark wing
Within the wings of a storm
I think I had met my match
He was singing
And undoing, and undoing
Ooh the laces
Undoing the laces
[Verse 2]
Said Sara, you're the poet in my heart
Never change, never stop
But now it's gone
It doesn't matter what for
But when you build your house
Oh then call me home
[Bridge]
Hold on, the night is coming
And the starling flew for days
I'd stay home at night all the time
I'd go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere
Ask me and I'm there, yeah
Ask me and I'm there 'cause I care
[Verse 3]
In the sea of love
Where every woman would love to drown
But now it's gone
They say it doesn't matter anymore
Oh, if you build your house
Then please call me home
[Verse 4]
Sara, you're the poet in my heart
Never change, and don't you ever stop
And now it's gone
No, it doesn't matter anymore
When you build your house
I'll come by
[Outro]
Sara
Sara
There’s a heartbeat that never really died
Heartbeat that never really died (Sara)
Oh, won't you swallow your pride?
All I ever wanted was to know that you were dreaming
Sara was written by Stevie Nicks.
Sara was produced by Ken Caillat & Richard Dashut & Fleetwood Mac.
Fleetwood Mac released Sara on Wed Dec 05 1979.
According to Rolling Stone, Stevie Nicks fell pregnant during her 70s relationship with Don Henley, but terminated the pregnancy. She says:
Had I married Don and had that baby, and had she been a girl, I would have named her Sara. But there was another woman in my life named Sara, who shortly after...
Lindsey Buckingham shared in the liner notes:
Some of Stevie’s songs were hard to rein in. If you’re very lyric driven and not overly worried about time and structure, if it’s more freeform, which a lot of Stevie’s things can be, six or more minutes is not hard to get to. The nine-minute version of...
Rolling Stone named it the #10 greatest Fleetwood Mac song, saying:
Released in December 1979, this somber, elegant ballad was Fleetwood Mac’s first hit of the Eighties. Don Henley of the Eagles claimed the song was named for a baby Nicks was pregnant
with and decided not to have during their brief...