What is leather and lace about

I love Will Ferrell and Dave Grohl's version, too. For some strange reason, I was dreaming about this song the tune all last night. I was a baby when it was originally released. And for some reason, I was getting the lyrics mixed up with another tune called "Danny's Song". However, somehow I knew the lyrics in my head "take from me I was SO relieved when I finally found the name of it, "Leather and Lace" heard it all of my life - lol!

This post is the most logical explanation so far. General Comment My mother used to hold me and dance to this when i was a baby. THe song still effects me now that i am It is a great song.

No Replies Log in to reply. General Comment Such a beautiful song. And I'm not just saying that because I'm a huge Stevie Nicks fan. I really think this is just one of the greatest love songs. Although I think it's supposed to represent a woman who might be a bit on the emotional side and wears her heart on her sleeve and a man who isn't as open about his feelings and tries to be a "tough" guy, I think it can be applied to almost any relationship. After all I think the song comes down to just finding that special someone.

A truly touching song. I think it would make a great song to be played at a wedding. JamiesCrying on October 29, Link. She wrote this song for Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, in the 70's.

BlueCrystalMirror on July 16, Link. General Comment i love this song, its beautiful. General Comment I've always loved this song. I was eating lunch with a woman several years ago that I met through a guy I 'fell' in love with. She and I met for drinks and this song came on. I immediately picked up a fork and used it as a microphone. She quickly followed.

We both were obviously moved by the words. Cities are loud and thick with no smooth edges. Like leather. I wrote this song because Waylon Jennings called me up and asked me to write a song called 'Leather and Lace.

It's probably the hardest thing in the world to do because it falls out of your hands and into the hands of the world, which tends to want you to not be able to handle it. I have to tell you now that Mr. Don Henley was pretty much responsible for this song because he came over every day and told me to either start over, or that I was on the right track, and he made me finish it because I almost gave up many times.

When it was finally finished, Don and I made a very simple demo of it - he sang it with me, and it was truly wonderful. And then I found out that Waylon and Jessi were breaking up, and Waylon wanted to just sing it by himself.

After all the work I had put into the philosophy of 2 people dealing with this problem, I told Waylon that only 4 people in this world could sing this song: he and his wife, or myself and Don Henley. Don and I had been going out for quite awhile, and, bless his heart, he did sing it with me, and again, as fate would have it, it became one of the most special love songs that I would ever write All in all, it was an unforgettable experience, as was he.

Blame it on my wild heart. However, the idea of a woman addressing the downsides of getting older or losing her edge — in the context of a pop-rock album — was and remains radical.

Pop music is meant to be an escapist balm, solace from reality or at least a vehicle for shared commiseration. That she felt as if her success could vaporise also made Bella Donna more relatable.

That is certainly obvious at concerts by Nicks or Fleetwood Mac, where sartorial homages some combination of a top hat, shawl, black dress and pointy black heels are rampant. It is also evident in her long list of admirers.

This admiration starts with Bella Donna, an album that still reverberates across many areas of popular music. In other cases, these ripples are fainter — when Del Rey whispers of precarious stardom, or Florence and the Machine unspools antique lyrical intrigue. When musicians fight to make an album their way — Kelly Clarkson facing off against Clive Davis to make My December, for example, or Taylor Swift digging her heels in and jettisoning country on This is also a veiled nod to the way Nicks protected her art.

Bella Donna also provided a blueprint for artists such as Tori Amos and Styles to make dramatic sonic leaps with their solo careers, while serving as a manual for the latter among others to write complicated, multi-dimensional women. Perhaps more importantly, this also gave her the space to not just reclaim, but preserve her inner life and identity.

As the album has amassed new audiences over the years, this simple message has evolved into an empowering rallying cry — and a way of life. Leather and lace: how Stevie Nicks created a new musical language. Stevie Nicks in at Oakland Coliseum, California, during her first solo tour.