Stevie Nicks ‘Edge Of Seventeen’ With Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 2006

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Stevie Channels Grief Into Art

In 2006, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was kind enough to accompany Stevie Nicks on her hit song ‘Edge Of Seventeen’. You might think that the orchestra in the background would make this rock classic a little boring, but it actually adds an element of drama and intensity the song didn’t have before!

Stevie wrote ‘Edge Of Seventeen’ to channel her grief over the deaths of her uncle and John Lennon in the same week of December 1980.

Stevie is absolutely electric – that throaty voice we’ve come to love provides an awesome contrast to the string section accompanying her in the background, and this rendition also features guitar, piano, and organ solos.

At almost 9 minutes long, this live version of ‘Edge Of Seventeen’ is like Christmas for fans of Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac!

The white winged dove she sings about represents the soul leaving the body after death.

All in all, I’m in love with this special rendition of ‘Edge Of Seventeen’, and it’s actually my favorite so far. Great job, Stevie – the orchestra was a great choice!

+ Edge Of Seventeen lyrics +

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singin’
Whoo-whoo-whoo
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singin’
Whoo, baby, whoo
Said, whoo

And the days go by
Like a strand in the wind
In the web that is my own
I begin again
Said to my friend, baby
Nothin’ else mattered

He was no more
(He was no more)
Than a baby then
Well, he seemed broken hearted
Somethin’ within him
But the moment
That I first laid
Eyes on him
All alone on the edge of seventeen

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singin’
Whoo, baby, whoo, whoo
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singin’
Said, whoo, baby, whoo
Said, whoo

Well, I went today
Maybe I will go again
Tomorrow, yeah, yeah
Well, the music there
Well it was hauntingly familiar
When I see you doin’
What I try to do for me
With their words of a poet
And a voice from a choir
And a melody
Nothin’ else mattered

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singin’
Whoo, baby, whoo, said whoo
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singin’
Said, whoo, baby, whoo
Said, whoo

The clouds never expect it
When it rains
But the sea changes colours
But the sea
Does not change
So with the slow graceful flow
Of age
I went forth with an age old
Desire to please
On the edge of seventeen

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singin’
Whoo, baby, whoo, said whoo
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singin’
Whoo, baby, whoo
Said, whoo

Well then suddenly
There was no one left standing
In the hall, yeah, yeah
In a flood of tears
That no one really ever heard fall at all
When I went searchin’ for an answer
Up the stairs and down the hall
Not to find an answer
Just to hear the call
Of a nightbird singin’
(Come away)
(Come away)

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singin’
Whoo, baby, whoo, said whoo
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singin’
Whoo, baby, whoo
Said, whoo

Well, I hear you (well, I hear you)
In the morning (in the morning)
And I hear you (and I hear you)
At nightfall (at nightfall)
Sometime to be near you
Is to be unable to hear you
My love
I’m a few years older than you
(I’m a few years older than you)

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singin’
Whoo, baby, whoo
Said, whoo

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