Stevie Nicks serenades the crowd beautifully with ‘Sara’

Was ‘Sara’ Nicks’ alter ego?

Stevie Nicks wrote this in 1978 with the help of her friend Sara Record.

At the time, Stevie was secretly dating drummer Mick Fleetwood, who had recently divorced. A few months later, Fleetwood fell in love with Sara…

Stevie has said this was a very personal song for her. It was about a combination of things going on in her life.
The band, her friend Sara and her relationship with Fleetwood, but she considers “Sara“ to be her alter-ego and her muse – the “Poet in her heart.”

“Sara” was released on the eagerly anticipated album- Tusk,  since it followed up Rumors, one of the best-selling albums of all time. “Sara” was welcomed by Fleetwoods fans across the world despite the huge change in sound due to Buckinghams writing on the new album.

Sara Facts!

• This was 16 minutes long when Nicks wrote it, and was later edited down to under 5 minutes for the album, but Stevie claimed the “real version” has about 9 more verses and tells quite a story.
• “Sara” is said to have been the name Nicks gave to her unborn child before she had an abortion with Don Henley.

+Sara lyrics below+

Wait a minute baby
Stay with me awhile
Said you’d give me light
But you never told me about the fire
Drowning in the sea of love
Where everyone would love to drown
But now it’s gone
It doesn’t matter what for
When you build your house
Then call me home

And he was just like a great dark wing
Within the wings of a storm
I think I had met my match, he was singing
And undoing, and undoing the laces
Undoing the laces

Said Sara, you’re the poet in my heart
Never change, never stop
But now it’s gone
It doesn’t matter what for
But when you build your house
Then call me home

Hold on
The night is coming and the starling flew for days
I’d stay home at night, all the time
I’d go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere
Ask me and I’m there, yeah
Ask me and I’m there, I care

In the sea of love
Where everyone would love to drown
But now it’s gone
They say it doesn’t matter anymore
When you build your house
Then please call me home

Sara, you’re the poet in my heart
Never change, and don’t you ever stop
Now it’s gone
No it doesn’t matter anymore
When you build your house
I’ll come by