Stevie Nicks wrote her new song ‘The Lighthouse’ as a pro-choice anthem after the US supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The 76-year-old Fleetwood Mac star released the track – her first solo single in four years – on Friday (27.09.24) and Stevie has revealed she was inspired to write it back in 2022 shortly after the court overturned the landmark ruling which gave women the constitutional right to a termination.
Stevie told PEOPLE: “I find it very sad, at 76 years old, I had to see Roe v. Wade taken away. Two years ago, when I realised the consequences of women’s rights that are vanishing, I watched a lot of news, and I was like a sponge – it just went into me.
“One morning I woke up … which, I never write when I wake up in the morning, and all of a sudden went, ‘I have my scars, I have my scars,’ so I just grabbed my notebook, and I started writing the whole thing.
“It was a long-form poem, and I didn’t know what kind of song that would be. I found an instrumental that I loved and within two or three days, I had recorded the song. I never redid the vocal – it’s an original vocal – and it’s taken me two years.”
The song features the lyrics: “Don’t close your eyes and hope for the best / The dark is out there / The light is going fast / Until the final hours.
“Your life’s changed forever / And all the rights that you had yesterday / Are taken away / And now you’re afraid / You should be afraid.”
Stevie previously declared she would have been forced to walk away from Fleetwood Mac if she hadn’t been able to get an abortion back in 1979.
Speaking in 2020, she told the Guardian newspaper: “If I had not had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac.
“There’s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly. And there were a lot of drugs, I was doing a lot of drugs … I would have had to walk away.”