Dim and waver, whose anger
Cold and quivering
As was the wind-blown night
Into which she’d fallen, fallen
Freedom, well it’s a thing that is fleeting
Freedom is standing next to you
My intentions were clear
I was with him
Everyone knew
Poor little fool
Beautiful as you are
With that high spirit
Morning star of evil hit me
Cut me like a knife
Cool and collected
She became that with time
Totally rejected
Freedom, well it’s a thing that is fleeting
Freedom is standing next to you
Well my intentions were clear
I was with him
Everyone knew
Poor little fool
It’s all in the eyes
It’s all in the way that you look
It’s all in the way
That you say very little
It’s all in the way that you talk
Look at me with daggers
It won’t do you any good
All the looks that you’ve used on me
Don’t work now that you’ve fallen,
Fallen, fallen
Freedom, well it’s a thing that is fleeting
Freedom is standing next to you
My intentions were clear
I was with him
Everyone knew
Poor little fool
Look at me with daggers
It won’t do you any good
All the looks that you’ve used on me
Don’t work now that you’ve fallen
All the looks that you’ve used on me
Don’t work now that you’ve fallen
Freedom
Freedom
Everyone knew
Poor little fool
Poor little fool
Poor little fool
Freedom
Come with me
Poor little fool
Freedom
(Stevie Nicks) © 1990 Welsh Witch Music (BMI) admin. by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC.
About the Song
Stevie adapted passages from Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, a literary work that she has referenced for other songs (“Fire Burning,” “Freedom,” “Rooms on Fire”)
Freedom:
“Dim and wavering on a wind-blown night
As was the wind-blown night into which she had fallen”
“Beautiful as you are with that high spirit
Morning star of evil hit me, cut me like a knife”
The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Dim and wavering as was the wind-blown light, yet it served to show him the hideous error, into which he had fallen.”
“When that high spirit, the morning star of evil, it was as a rebel that he fell.”
Freedom.
