Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks is proudly promoting her new pro-abortion song, saying it could be the “most important” single she’s ever written.
The 76-year-old musician released “The Lighthouse” on Friday, representing her first solo single in four years. Nicks said she wrote the song following the Dobbs Supreme Court decision in 2022, which overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion.
“I find it very sad, at 76 years old, I had to see Roe v. Wade taken away,” Nicks told People in an email interview. “Two years ago, when I realized 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,” she continued. “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.”
She went on to discuss the many people in the music industry, including Sheryl Crow, who helped develop the song over the past two years until Nicks deemed it “perfect” enough to release.
“All the stories that we tell about the necessity for women’s healthcare and the necessity for a safe and legal abortion option for women is absolutely necessary,” Nicks told the outlet.
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“It seemed like overnight, people were saying, ‘What can we, as a collective force, do about this…’ For me, it was to write a song,” she shared on X. “I have often said to myself, ‘This may be the most important thing I ever do.’ To stand up for the women of the United States and their daughters and granddaughters ~ and the men that love them. This is an anthem.”
Nicks had previously expressed that she believed Fleetwood Mac never would have existed if she hadn’t had an abortion when she was younger. “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,” she said of aborting the child she conceived with Eagles singer Don Henley in 1979.
“I have my scars, you have yours/ Don’t let them take your power,” the chorus says. “Don’t leave it alone in the final hours/They’ll take your soul, they’ll take your power.”
“You should be afraid,” another line of lyrics said before delving into lighthouse metaphors. “You’ve gotta get in the game, you’ve gotta learn how to play,” the song goes on. “You’ve gotta make a change/ you’ve gotta do it today.”
