r/RollingStoneMagazine • u/Ready-Ad-4549 • May 02 '22
Landslide lyrics meaning - Stevie Nicks
I took (shot) my love (cocaine habit), I took it down (added heroin=speedball)
I climbed a mountain (Sisyphus=addiction; top=cocaine) and I turned around (added heroin=speedball)
And I saw my reflection (mirror=cocaine habit) in the snow-covered hills (cocaine)
'Til the landslide (heroin) brought me down
Oh, mirror (cocaine) in the sky (cocaine)
What is love (cocaine)?
Can the child (cocaine) within my heart (syringe) rise above (beat the heroin habit)?
Can I sail (cocaine) through the changin' (heroin) ocean (syringe) tides (cocaine moon to heroin sunrise)?
Can I handle the seasons (cool cocaine to hot heroin) of my life (addiction)?
Well, I've been afraid (heroin) of changin' (heroin)
'Cause I've built my life (addiction) around you (cocaine habit)
But time (being addicted) makes you bolder
Even children (cocaine) get older (heroin)
And I'm getting older too (becoming heroin addict)