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  • The Wild Heart @ 30: ‘So to the red rose grows the passion’

    The Wild Heart @ 30: ‘So to the red rose grows the passion’

    Gate and Garden 1983
    “There is a gate ~ it can be guarded”

    One of Stevie’s more obscure songs is “Gate and Garden,” Track 3 on The Wild Heart. Stevie has seldom discussed the song in great detail and has never performed it in concert, but the breezy tune appears to be about secret escapes and getaways.

    “It’s all through my diary, ‘what are they gonna ask me about this?’ ’cause I don’t know what ‘Gate and Garden’ is about,” Stevie ponders. “I guess it’s my idea about my escapes, of the places that I go, the things that I do and think about—that is my private, silent, secret garden world that belongs to nobody else. That’s where and what that place probably is for me. Everybody should have their own secret, peaceful garden.”

    Musicians

    Dave Monday: Guitar
    Brad Smith: Drums & percussion
    Sandy Stewart: Keyboards, synthesizer
    Benmont Tench: Organ
    Waddy Wachtel: Guitar
    Sharon Celani & Lori Perry: Background vocals

    Produced by Jimmy Iovine. Recorded at Goodnight, Dallas

    Lyrics

    There is a gate
    It can be guarded
    Well, it is not heaven
    And it has a garden
    So to the red rose
    Grows the passion

    And the guardian
    Well, it’s now you know
    It’s just a few days away
    It’s now you know
    And it’s then
    It’s just a game that we play
    Someone steals it
    Someone steals it away
    It scares you to death
    You don’t give into yourself
    You give into your friends
    Don’t send an answer
    How many times have you said

    Do I love you
    Well, I always did (every night)
    Nobody knows nothing ’bout it, no
    Wo, do I love you
    Well, I always did
    Nobody knows
    Knows nothing ’bout it

    Well, it’s now you know
    It’s everywhere
    You say you seek the truth
    I say all is fair
    Don’t send an answer
    How many times
    Have you said

    Do I love you (every night)
    Well, I always did
    Nobody knows nothin’ ’bout it
    Wo, do I love you
    Well, I always did (every night)
    Nobody knows nothin’ ’bout it
    They know nothing ’bout it
    They know nothing’ ’bout it

    Do I love you…ooh-hoo
    Wo, do I love you…ooh-hoo
    Wo, do I love you…ah-ha
    Wo, do I love you…oh-ho
    Wo, do I love you
    Do I love you…ooh-hoo
    Wo, do I love you
    Ooh-ooo-hoo
    Do I love you…oh-ho-ho-ho

    Ooh…

    (Stevie Nicks) © 1982 Welsh Witch Music (BMI) / Admin. by Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI)

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    Reference

    Modern Records. (1983). Stevie Nicks: The Wild Heart [Press release].