Stevie Nicks "Battle of the Dragon" w/ lyrics

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  • @annawilliams5079
    @annawilliams5079 Рік тому +24

    Stevie Nicks kept me going in the roughest part of my life, mainly through “Edge of Seventeen” on replay. Now that I’m mentally and emotionally doing much better I’m happily branching out in more of her music. All of her words have so many meaning on so many different levels. I am an amateur author attempting to pen a series, studying literature and poetry and I am amazed at how deep her music is. Definitely my favorite musician of all time.

    • @dsajewich
      @dsajewich  Рік тому +3

      I'm glad you are in a better place! Her music has helped me as well. I think the fact that she is often ambiguous in terms of her lyrics allows people to apply them to their own experiences. ;)

    • @S.T.A.R.Sorcery
      @S.T.A.R.Sorcery Рік тому

      Gypsy, Gold Dust Woman, The Chain, Rhiannon...all great too.

  • @stevienicksisafreakinglege4413
    @stevienicksisafreakinglege4413 5 років тому +11

    Should have been on Rock a Little!

  • @PassionGrows
    @PassionGrows 8 років тому +70

    Stevie Nicks was definitely very precognizant in her writing. This song is very much about the world we live in today.

    • @ItsCAKESMa
      @ItsCAKESMa 2 роки тому +4

      She writes like no other

    • @kyachdistent1301
      @kyachdistent1301 Рік тому

      Yes but many people can do this. Kim Wilde's 'Chaos At The Airport' from 1982 can be used post-9/11 to very pertinent effect, the creations of ghost towns in the Tory-trashed North from 'Out Town' a year earlier & the police brutality of 'Wendy Sadd' can be used anywhere. Kim and her brother Ricky, especially in the 80s, always had pertinent songs and nothing like the 'I love you' goop that most females are known for. For a start, who can find anything worthwhile in a Tina Turner or Whit Houston song?
      Sparks did a song called 'The Existential Threat' and recorded even before Covid-19 broke, & it's not the first time they were ahead of the curve. Many people's songs relate to today and Duran have done this many times too. I might add Nicks could not have known about how this song could relate to today, but actually this song of hers is about the ups & downs of Fleetwood Mac-" no one walks away from this battle, for power, keep the fury deep inside you, wish it to end." I suppose all members were just fighting to stay together and let's face it has her and Lindsey's relationship ever been healthy?

    • @kyachdistent1301
      @kyachdistent1301 Рік тому

      @@ItsCAKESMa But she does have a habit of overreaching herself, as her terrible 2011 album showed. Lazy toe-curling bad in every way, except the song 'Secret Love' & even that song was decades old before release!

    • @steveb7310
      @steveb7310 Рік тому

      I remember reading that this song was written about her struggle with drug addiction and suicidal thoughts.

    • @kyachdistent1301
      @kyachdistent1301 Рік тому

      @@steveb7310 That's a contributor as it does make her so difficult to work with, but it's namely about the many problems the band have with each other as they try to make a cohesive record while getting all their own ways across. The "Dragon" is the band, and the "Battle" is their constant fight to get on and not split up!

  • @PassionGrows
    @PassionGrows 2 роки тому +21

    In my opinion this song is about the dark time she had when she was in recovery during rehab. The battle she fought within herself to survive. The times when she was a recluse and wouldn’t even see her friends. How in order to survive she had to fight…No one walks away from this battle not from the power….
    But now in today’s age, the song means so much more. What this world is coming to and the chaos we live in.

    • @lorihoop3831
      @lorihoop3831 2 роки тому +2

      I just heard this song a few months ago and your analysis does fit the time-line.

    • @kyachdistent1301
      @kyachdistent1301 Рік тому +1

      @@lorihoop3831 No it doesn't he just wants it to be that way. It's already known this song is about the many ups and downs of Fleetwood Mac. Collectively the group IS the Dragon, according to her that "no one walks way from, the power, so strong, like a fury." And to the fury to keep making solo recordings while retaining a foothold in the group I suppose too. But it IS recognised that this song is about the confrontational and difficult recording and live process they all kept finding themselves in. Despite their ailing marriages, ABBA always made sweet work of things in the studio by comparison.

    • @PassionGrows
      @PassionGrows Рік тому +3

      @@kyachdistent1301 you literally made that up. Stevie herself has said her songs can mean different things to different people, depending on their perspectives.

    • @kyachdistent1301
      @kyachdistent1301 Рік тому

      @@PassionGrows You bloody stupid idiot, it's on WIKIPEDIA regarding this song. Not EVERY song is about a lover or drugs, and Nicks only says that cos she wants her airy-fairy land of dragons and goblins, which can sometimes make her songs ridiculously hard to ascertain (as has her bandmates ALL said of her in the past, plus many music writers) to mean more than it does to a teenager dreaming of other worlds better than this one! ANYONE can say that about their songs that they mean different things blah blah blah, and if that's true anyway, why are you going on at me as if it's an untruth when it's ONE truth. What a bloody moron you are! You probably find meaning in every piece of plastic trash out their on the airwaves. Like all those awful love songs are about world destruction or tuning into your life through sound to change it! Dear God! People!

    • @PassionGrows
      @PassionGrows Рік тому +1

      @@kyachdistent1301 lmao Wikipedia? Ok who is the idiot? You’re full of crap.

  • @gregorysmith2548
    @gregorysmith2548 Рік тому +9

    Her best songs are the deep cuts. This is one of the best

  • @danaposton3649
    @danaposton3649 Рік тому +5

    The beautiful and the sensitive and the oh so very young, we are adapting to your silence I can live here but I can't live without your songs❤

  • @youandmeeee222
    @youandmeeee222 4 роки тому +12

    This song represents to me today this global pandemic we are enduring. I wish I knew how to make it trend so people could hear it.

    • @Beautymarks777
      @Beautymarks777 4 роки тому +1

      youandmeeee222 there are so many facets on how to give a vision of reality, but I know if you don’t have love, it’s hard to get appreciation and when those are missing, chances are you don’t have respect so it’s like Charlie Brown wanting something beautiful, but without the practice of peace with everybody, then it’s each man for himself instead of unity to give love and peace its lust and a piece and if you want me to be honest, I’m a 51 year old wanna be who was hoping not that the world would shut down, just that it would give Life A Chance and when it came to money, calm it the fuhk down. That maybe, in a beautiful peaceful .. and I must say intense want for oneness and unity within their own homes , that maybe in the bliss of the spirit of Enjoying each other’s company and just there being some kind of ability to live WITHOUT having to pay bills such as electricity and water which is a blessing grace and necessity.. hello.. guess what.. I know it’s off to work I go, but if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.. let it go with the flow within the conduits that money isn’t going to control unless there’s a person handling that. We all need work we all need money.. but the ones in harms way wouldn’t be there if they didn’t have the skills and qualifications and yes, that is sad they’re in harms way, but I think all because of most people having to make money to make (our) world Go Round, well fuhk!! If you’re going to go zigzagging every where and it’s understood, but how the fxx you gonna fix that?? And not how, but where do you start? If Love would go around Instead of bill collectors and shit that ain’t gonna matter if (I)go brain dead or just dead, then that be great.. the bank lent me money to buy my house, but I never saw the muther fkn money in my bank to help me pay them back..them too.. I would not have been ANYWHERE ALMOST BUT maybe for food or toilet paper and did my hopeful part to stay sanitized and I kept my quarantine quarters the same way. We as people could have spent TIME TOGETHER instead Of having to spend money just to pay a fuhkn bill that’s free (it was when my friend climbed the pole and the water comes from hm?? But my point is this.. let’s deal with each other, we could start with the man and the mirror and hope every person grasps what one day today is and love honor respect and appreciate what tomorrow may not be and most of all, take care of each other by just being your best self and of coarse, common courtesy for starting ground..I’ve known very few to get it and believe me, chaos has to stop so that maybe envy and greed will and it’s always something to make you stop and think , but me? That’s my favorite singer and I can see a video for this song too now that you said it, but I used parts of this video for her you can’t fix this song and I called it I just love and don’t pretend and all I can say is God bless and Gods best.. rock on live and love on and do your best to be strong.. ua-cam.com/video/mdlMYYxlNnk/v-deo.html unity strong baby.. You Got Me Mesmerized

  • @PureWhiteLilly
    @PureWhiteLilly 8 років тому +23

    INCREDIBLE slide show!

  • @PureWhiteLilly
    @PureWhiteLilly 8 років тому +16

    I can't help but notice that whenever a bard writes a song filled with deep esoteric wisdom, and/or it's deeply prophetic...someone will ask what it's about...the answer is always it was about drugs. Wise up people. ;)

  • @susanwallace507
    @susanwallace507 Рік тому +5

    Ive followed her for years. She is ethereal~~White Witch~~Real.

  • @lillyrose4433
    @lillyrose4433 5 років тому +15

    The beauty of songs is that they can mean so many different things to so many different people. This has a very personal, and historic meaning for me, regarding a loved one who was in Asia and brought to the United States.

    • @kyachdistent1301
      @kyachdistent1301 Рік тому

      Only people with intelligence enough to actually HAVE more than one meaning, something lacking in most acts people love.

  • @paulagregson7517
    @paulagregson7517 7 років тому +13

    This song touches a lot of raw nerves for me, and yes being addicted to the drug of the dragon and fighting her wait out

  • @tracyford8472
    @tracyford8472 8 років тому +15

    Think she is talking about whatever someone hard is going thru,but for her it may have been about addiction relate to this beautiful song whatever a person is going thru

    • @arctictimberwolf
      @arctictimberwolf 5 років тому

      The Song is about a Very Real Event.
      Wise up^!!^

  • @vladtepes9614
    @vladtepes9614 10 років тому +25

    I adore this song. Thanks for posting it!

    • @dsajewich
      @dsajewich  7 років тому +1

      One of my favorites also. You're welcome.

    • @pabloperez4063
      @pabloperez4063 3 роки тому

      I visited your house in sighisoara, Vlad. I was living in a house very close x 5 days.

  • @pastelspring
    @pastelspring 6 років тому +30

    she is singing about many things. her depth is powerful

  • @melissawells5779
    @melissawells5779 Рік тому +4

    So much talent❤

  • @James-kh9ij
    @James-kh9ij 6 років тому +14

    I wish this song was on Spotify it’s a hard one to find. I’m not sure why In never heard this on the radio either.❤️🐉

    • @dsajewich
      @dsajewich  6 років тому +2

      It's funny because I found this song many years ago (before the internet) by going through the card catalog at the library under "Stevie Nicks". They had this, Violet and Blue, and Sleeping Angel listed. I hadn't heard of any of them until then!

    • @kyachdistent1301
      @kyachdistent1301 6 років тому +2

      Easy. It wasn't a single! Why would it be played on the radio if it wasn't a single? She made a big mistake there, releasing something like 'Has Anyone Written' when this way more powerful.

    • @James-kh9ij
      @James-kh9ij 6 років тому

      Kyach Distent agreed

    • @smackcam4458
      @smackcam4458 5 років тому

      it was on the enchanted box set, but it isnt avaliable on the US spotify

    • @mattdeighton2206
      @mattdeighton2206 4 роки тому +2

      @@kyachdistent1301 it was on the American anthem soundtrack

  • @paulagregson7517
    @paulagregson7517 7 років тому +9

    THIS VIDEO AND SONG IS BEAUTIFUL - and it goes together with the video perfect

  • @aniradup8101
    @aniradup8101 3 роки тому +4

    "Have you been writing?
    Well, you say it's harder now".
    "Well, I got the message:
    STAY AMONG THE LIVING"
    "YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO ME"
    THIS IS A BATTLE
    YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO ME
    YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO ME"
    Look at the images and listen to her. It's very clear what she's telling us here.

  • @nathangahman1319
    @nathangahman1319 11 місяців тому +2

    A song written before it’s Time, still remaining true and timeless in these last days of revelations

  • @louisortega3606
    @louisortega3606 8 років тому +12

    I am pretty sure she is singing about her relationship with fleetwood Mac. I've never heard or read her explain this one.

    • @kyachdistent1301
      @kyachdistent1301 6 років тому +1

      You are correct. It's on wikipedia and there are giveaways in the song like "I cannot live without your songs" and "recording the sound of your voices." The drugs thing is more prevalent in an album track like 'Alice'.

    • @Beautymarks777
      @Beautymarks777 4 роки тому

      How bout ua-cam.com/video/aid2vMbCNP8/v-deo.html

    • @PassionGrows
      @PassionGrows Рік тому

      @@kyachdistent1301you are full of $#it.. It’s not on Wikipedia and you have no clue of what you’re talking about.

    • @SimoneBendix-q7e
      @SimoneBendix-q7e Рік тому

      ​❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😮A.09.@☆☆

  • @yvonnewilson1935
    @yvonnewilson1935 9 років тому +9

    A lot of her lyrics in this song .ring true

  • @davidbaker4560
    @davidbaker4560 3 роки тому +5

    One of my favorite songs by Nicks. Love the song! I wish Spotify would get it!

  • @b.vanhoozen658
    @b.vanhoozen658 6 років тому +6

    Saved my life

  • @nathangahman1319
    @nathangahman1319 11 місяців тому +1

    I dedicate this song for “All” the brave volunteers heading half way around the world 🌎 to join the Battle in Ukraine 🇺🇦 God watch over you and keep you safe

  • @melissawells5779
    @melissawells5779 Рік тому +3

    Shows the depth of her craft. God bless you Stevie ❤

  • @heaintloveu
    @heaintloveu 5 років тому +4

    At the end she says battle of the dragons, but the song title is oddly singular

  • @moiregarner1494
    @moiregarner1494 2 роки тому +3

    My best Buddy Deb told me to listen to this song. She said it apples to what is happening in the world today. I agree. Great song.

  • @eaglewolffox6275
    @eaglewolffox6275 5 місяців тому +1

    I'm surprised nobody made a HTTYD AMV with this song...

  • @helenfountain5336
    @helenfountain5336 2 роки тому +3

    Stevie nicks I have been a fan of yours for a very long time. Love all your songs. Desert Angels one of the songs that I really hold close to my heart. I've been to a lot of your concerts and enjoy every one of them. 🎩🎸🎶❤️

  • @tynovalenzuela6417
    @tynovalenzuela6417 7 років тому +6

    i love it that song

  • @ItsCAKESMa
    @ItsCAKESMa 2 роки тому +4

    Absolute perfection

  • @dorienvanrijsewijk8330
    @dorienvanrijsewijk8330 2 роки тому +1

    I think its about drugaddiction … stay among the living….

  • @dragsterdawn
    @dragsterdawn 8 років тому +9

    she is talking about drug addiction..

    • @PassionGrows
      @PassionGrows 8 років тому +5

      The wonderful thing about Stevie is a poet. Therefore her songs can mean many things depending on who is listening and when. Now to me, this song is very much about the wars we are living today. The young soldiers traveling across the world to fight the fury of terrorism.

  • @rogervanevery1995
    @rogervanevery1995 2 роки тому +2

    Drugs is what about

  • @amandaneese7813
    @amandaneese7813 Рік тому +1

    She's brilliant ❤❤amazing

  • @michellew3441
    @michellew3441 2 місяці тому

    My dad committed suicide and a dragon fly has visited me since. I was listening to music and looked up information about dragon flies then this song came on, Coincidence maybe but lyrics can be interpreted in many ways.

  • @melissawells5779
    @melissawells5779 Рік тому +1

    Only the great Stevie Nicks could put a song like this together ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @melissawells5779
    @melissawells5779 Місяць тому

    I just read she & Waddy Wetchel have been in a relationship 30 yrs. Wow they kept that quiet ❤

  • @cajunchik8566
    @cajunchik8566 3 роки тому +1

    Goodbye. Keep the property, the children and the rights & remember to try to look out for the children's well being.......

  • @sarah-louisejoy6817
    @sarah-louisejoy6817 Рік тому

    I took liquid lsd many years ago.. And saw dragons chasing each others tails, going round in circles in the sky, like protecting portals or maybe not, the dragons where made of clouds ie gosts.

  • @amandaneese7813
    @amandaneese7813 Рік тому +1

    This is amazing ❤❤

  • @astrid9890
    @astrid9890 Рік тому +1

    One of my favorites song!!❤

  • @lucyfaiella7220
    @lucyfaiella7220 5 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤LOVE Stevie voice ❤️ POWERFUL song 🎵 ❤️

  • @sandraweaver8376
    @sandraweaver8376 2 роки тому +1

    She wrote a lot of these when she was younger. They have withstood the years of time,

  • @alanwade1137
    @alanwade1137 4 роки тому +1

    Awesome images that dovetail well with the lyrics so kindly provided. I noticed a few lyrics I have never truly caught, e.g., "except," and I can't recall the other but it was profound! I have listened to this song since the American Anthem soundtrack was released in 1986. I've seen Nicks perform at least 35 times, and since this song came out, she's never performed it live. Not at any of the shows I've attented. So... thanks again from an ancient Nicks fan.

  • @pobox326
    @pobox326 Рік тому +1

    fantastic!!!

  • @MichaelMiller-qz4fr
    @MichaelMiller-qz4fr Рік тому +1

    With you and your work perfect michael Miller

  • @mrdckeau
    @mrdckeau 2 роки тому +1

    This song makes me .. so so happy and so sad at the same time.. 🥲❤️‍🔥

  • @rellman85
    @rellman85 9 років тому +3

    Fire and blood.

    • @anthonyyoutubefan7567
      @anthonyyoutubefan7567 6 років тому +1

      Ironically, Stevie Nicks has written a few songs based on The Song of Ice and Fire (Game Of Thrones) books.

  • @akawhippy
    @akawhippy 7 років тому +2

    What's the name of the font of the letters used in here? Just curious.

    • @dsajewich
      @dsajewich  7 років тому +2

      Hi. to be honest I don't remember what font I used. I got them from the editing program, and I no longer use that program.

    • @cacaobensdorp
      @cacaobensdorp Рік тому +1

      Its made by the frenchman a.m. cassandre

    • @cacaobensdorp
      @cacaobensdorp Рік тому +1

      Font name is Peignot

  • @kerrianns.e.3440
    @kerrianns.e.3440 6 років тому +4

    this is a song about how drugs and instant fame destroyed her relationship with Lindsey. how he had such a hards time writing after their breakup and how she got lost in drugs. the breakup was a real turn of the page.....sad. Iove them both! awesome and emotional song, way under rated

  • @preshvilla5182
    @preshvilla5182 3 місяці тому

    ❤ but why so slow here?

  • @EnchantedMals
    @EnchantedMals 8 років тому +2

    Very nice!

  • @Laura-sm9gi
    @Laura-sm9gi Рік тому

    Esta canción forma parte de tantas obras maestras pertenecientes a Stevie Nicks. Una de mis canciones favoritas de todos los tiempos por todo lo que significa la profundidad de sus letras, su música y su voz!!!
    Definitivamente ella es de otra galaxia 🌌 ✨❤
    Gracias Stevie !!!❤❤❤

  • @joelhumbertocastroflores353
    @joelhumbertocastroflores353 5 років тому +1

    espectacular me encanta es un amor stevie te amo.

  • @SimoneBendix-q7e
    @SimoneBendix-q7e Рік тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤9.0

  • @SimoneBendix-q7e
    @SimoneBendix-q7e Рік тому

    Y🧘‍♀️ ❤AAA>3☆

  • @SimoneBendix-q7e
    @SimoneBendix-q7e Рік тому

    TalitaChyMai

  • @GabrielaHernandez-xi6mw
    @GabrielaHernandez-xi6mw Місяць тому

    😂👣😘🥰🥠🥳🐾

  • @jamiewilson8827
    @jamiewilson8827 8 місяців тому

    Whoa NO!

  • @amandaneese7813
    @amandaneese7813 Рік тому

    Shes brilliant this reminds me of my current relationship i am a poet and songwriter i adore her❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ shes the first person who inspired me i have written 80 songs i just need a producer

  • @SimoneBendix-q7e
    @SimoneBendix-q7e Рік тому

    AA❤❤Amme Ich AAAAH sZ😊

  • @paulagregson7517
    @paulagregson7517 7 років тому +1

    best lyric vid ever xx

  • @James-kh9ij
    @James-kh9ij 4 роки тому

    Please can’t you post this to Instagram ? I want it forever ... please ?❤️🙏 I’m begging ..

  • @crystalnations7937
    @crystalnations7937 Рік тому +2

    This as my jam growing up. Stevie Nick's I love her. Got all her music.

  • @tynovalenzuela6417
    @tynovalenzuela6417 7 років тому +1

    i love it that song

  • @SimoneBendix-q7e
    @SimoneBendix-q7e 11 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @SimoneBendix-q7e
    @SimoneBendix-q7e Рік тому

    .❤.

  • @rachellaugherty4057
    @rachellaugherty4057 Рік тому

    She is referring to herself in some of this , when she was not writing music , when she was addicted to Klonopin

    • @dsajewich
      @dsajewich  Рік тому +1

      This song was released in 1986 while she was still addicted to cocaine. She hadn't been prescribed klonopin yet.

  • @amandaneese7813
    @amandaneese7813 Рік тому

    Amazingly brilliant and beautiful ❤❤❤

  • @walkaway6353
    @walkaway6353 3 роки тому

    Who wrote this for her?
    SO VIETNAM.
    EDIT: "I see the handsome soldier"

    • @dsajewich
      @dsajewich  3 роки тому +1

      The writing credits for Battle of the Dragon are Stevie Nicks, Gary Nicholson, John Jarvis. The music has an Asian sound, but I'm not sure if that's what you mean be "So Vietnam"? Stevie undoubtedly wrote the lyrics, and is known to be ambiguous in her writing, but is mostly autobiographical. There are many interpretations about the meaning of the song, and you can read a lot of them in the comments posted here. The lyric "I see a handsome soldier" (which is the correct lyric) is more than likely a metaphor for someone in the music industry. I'm assuming Bob Dylan or Tom Petty, whom she went to perform in Australia with "This was not pre-planned but after some calls, I decided to go to the other side of the world". It has been widely speculated that the "battle" Stevie is referencing in the song was regarding her cocaine addiction.

  • @rachealmitchell5456
    @rachealmitchell5456 3 роки тому

    I think it's Beautiful, such a colorful Dragon

  • @bobby-jothomson7427
    @bobby-jothomson7427 Рік тому

    yes we can walk away and it ends

  • @MariaBegona79
    @MariaBegona79 5 років тому +1

    🕊 🖤 🕊

  • @MissDoreen
    @MissDoreen 3 роки тому

    Blessed Be The Addicts 😊

  • @twandagonzalez247
    @twandagonzalez247 2 роки тому

    💙

  • @kaylafrost3428
    @kaylafrost3428 2 роки тому

    2022

  • @debyvale2617
    @debyvale2617 Рік тому +1

    This song definitely tells the story of today's world she has a way of seeing the future people need to listen to show them the way