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SiLVER SPRiNGS should not be dismissed as a break-up song.  It is a mid-tempo break-up song of sorts, yet it’s even more about that kind of tearing-yourself-apart feeling we have during, or resulting from a break-up.  STEViE NiCKS, who wrote and sings lead vocals on this FLEETWOOD MAC track, epitomized the mid-seventies mystical chick.  Not only did she look like a psychic ready to give a reading, but she also wrote songs about pagan goddesses and her own oceanic dreams.  Her voice has one of the most insane vibratos known to pop and sometimes she doesn’t even sound human.  Clearly she is human, and on SiLVER SPRiNGS she connects with a feeling of super-natural female eroticism, at least in my own opinion.  “I’ll begin not to love you/ turn around, see me runnin’/  I’ll say I loved you years ago/  Tell myself you never loved me, no.”  Yet again, I find myself recognizing that I too have felt that way about a love lost, or a love never fully realized.  It can be painful, yet there is something both enchanting and desperate about a feeling like that, especially paired with her vocals and the accompaniment of FLEETWOOD MAC. The entire song is an experience in itself, beginning rather slowly and gentle, then building up in desperation before exploding out with her raw emotion.  “Time casts a spell on you, but you won’t forget me/  I know I could have loved you but you would not let me/  I’ll follow you down till the sound of my voice will haunt you/ You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you”.  Clearly, it’s never easy letting go.  Not even for STEViE, apparently.  Sometimes we hang on to something or someone for dear life, or at least until we have found a way to let go.  A song like SiLVER SPRiNGS is really effective in reminding us all how collective and human it is to tear your self apart.  I just wish I sounded this good when I was doing the tearing apart inside!