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GOLD DUST WOMAN ©Stevie Nicks

Rock on gold dust woman
Take your silver spoon...and dig your grave
Heartless challenge...pick your path and I'll pray

Wake up in the morning
See your sunrise loves to go down
Lousy lovers pick their prey
But they never cry out loud

Did she make you cry
Make you break down
Shatter your illusions of love
Is it over now--do you know how
Pick up the pieces and go home...

Rock on ancient queen...follow those who pale
In your shadow...
Rulers make bad lovers
You better put your kingdom up for sale

Well did she make you cry
Make you break down
Shatter your illusions of love
Is it over now do you know how
Pick up the pieces and go home...go home....

"Gold Dust Woman was a little bit about drugs, it was about you know keeping going. It was about cocaine. And, uh, you know after all these years, since I haven't done any cocaine since 1986 I can talk about it now you know. But it was, ah, at that point, it was. I don't think I had ever been so tired in my whole life as I was when we were like, doing that. You know I think it was shocking me, the whole rock'n'roll life, was really heavy and it was so much work and it was so everyday intense you know. Being in Fleetwood Mac was like being in the army. It was like you have to be there. You have to be there and you have to be there as on time as you can be there. And even if there was nothing you have to do, you have to be there. So Gold Dust Woman was really my kind of symbolic look at somebody going through a bad relationship, and doing alot of drugs, and trying to just make it, trying to live, you know trying to get through it to the next thing."

Classic Albums: The Making of Rumours VHS '97

"Well, I'm sure the Gold Dust Woman was me, but it's just kinda written about LA and how heavy it was here. Just the whole Los Angeles, Hollywood thing."
"Didn't we do something very scarey like throw down glass or something and end up not using it on Gold Dust Woman because it was too scarey, and I think we did it again in Tusk."

Stevie on the Makng of Gold Dust Woman
Rumours DVD audio '01