RARE: SARA - 11 Minute Long Version - Stevie Nicks - Fleetwood Mac

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  @LaVidaLocaHomie · 6 years ago (edited) · pinned

  My description is maxed out to the number of characters you are allowed. So I will add this here. I was replying to some of the recent comments while listening to the Cleaning Lady version and these words kept popping into my mind. They refused to leave until I wrote them down.<br>.<br> All your dreams are waiting to come true. They are looking down on you right now as you ponder them. There is nothing they want more than to reach you. That intense, overpowering, impossible to describe feeling is them trying to communicate with you. They want to reach you just as bad as you want them to be reality here. But they will not come without burning desire. Desire that is impossible to express in words. The same desire you would have if someone held you underwater and you were dying. You would struggle with all your might and all your strength to break free of that hold. You would never give up until you broke free or you were dead. Unless you have that same burning desire it just will not work. That intensity, that emotion, that pain is sending a message to your dreams telling them you need them here. <br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Close your eyes every day and visit that special place where your dreams exist. Look around and experience them in fine detail in that other place. Stay in that world for an hour every day. Envision yourself inside your dream. Experience your dream as clearly as if it was reality here. Use your mind&apos;s eyes instead of your physical eyes. Your dreams have their own life the very second your thought forms them. They DO exist somewhere else and carry on a life of their own. But they need your help to break through the barrier. Alas, most folks will never grasp this. Until you have that burning, painful, angry, all consuming desire as if you were being held underwater then it will never happen. The intense burning desire for something is what triggers your dream to begin it&apos;s journey toward you. That feeling is your dream telling you it is doing it&apos;s best to reach you as fast as possible. When you want your dream just as bad as you wanted air when held underwater then it will happen. Maybe not in 1 day or 1 year or even 5 years but I guarantee you one day it will happen. Some dreams are so big they take a little longer. Things will begin to happen that make you pause and wonder. New people and circumstances will strangely come into your life in the most unusual ways imaginable that are meant to advance you toward your dream. That burning desire turns you into a magnet for the things that are required for your dream to break through.<br>.<br>P.S. One week later 7.15.20. Again answering some comments tonight playing Tusk Sara as I type and this old memory I haven&apos;t thought of for years kept popping into my head for some reason and wanted to be written down also before it would leave. <br>.<br>Back in 82 or so I started my first business that gave me the freedom I always craved. Around summer 84 I was working my business down in Pacific Palisades by PCH and Sunset Blvd. That day I was walking/bus riding due to my only vehicle was in the shop. Anyhoos, at the end of the day I got tired of waiting for the Sunset bus back into Westwood so I decided to hitchhike. It took about 5 minutes and a sleek black mercedes 450 roadster pulled over. I told him where I was heading and I hopped in. As we drove twisty Sunset back to Westwood we got to talking. He asked me what I was doing out here in this rich ass neighborhood hitchhiking? I told him about my biz and my vehicle and I had just finished working all day. He took it all in, was silent for a moment and then begin to speak.<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;He said he had a PhD in Chemistry and not too long ago he used to live in his van in a parking lot in Malibu. He said it was a simple life and life had thrown him a curve ball. However, he would often drive to the ocean at dusk, park there, and watch the sunset shimmer against the breaking waves. He knew he was a smart man. He knew he did not want to live in his van the rest of his life. He knew the women&apos;s cosmetics field was booming at the time. He said he spent the next 6 months in his van coming up with a new line of women&apos;s facial and hair care products. He came up with the original formulas in his mind and wrote them all down. He would look at those every day and said he knew it would be a success if he could just make the right connections. Long story short, he ended up meeting the right people, they bought the rights to his formulas, started manufacturing them and that very, very famous product line is still being sold today and he is paid royalties every month. He said he went from his van to his 450 roadster in two years. He told me anyone can do the same thing if they want. They just have to come up with one good idea and roll with it. As we pulled over at my place I got out of the car, shook his hand and thanked him for the ride and the inspirational story. I&apos;ve never seen him since 84 but that conversation he had with me that afternoon has always stayed with me my entire life.<br><br>8.31.20 ===<br><br>This is the version I listened to over and over again since 1980 and this is the version I am listening to right now as I type the following paragraphs.<br>Sara (Live 1980, St. Louis, MO) &nbsp; From the Fleetwood Mac Live Album<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nop8jW2hiVI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nop8jW2hiVI</a> &nbsp; <br><br> &nbsp; &nbsp; It&apos;s funny you know, I was doing a few daily chores today and this story kept popping into my head and it also requested to be written down before it would leave. So here we go. Written for the 1% of the 1%. You know who you are. I first heard Sara in the fall of 1979. I fell in love with that song the first time I heard it. I can&apos;t even describe it. I bought the album on cassette and wore it out. A year later the FM Live album came out. I bought that also on the double cassette and I wore those out multiple times. I recorded Sara from FM Live multiple times on cassette so I did not have to keep rewinding every 7 minutes or so. I would just let the entire 30 minutes play then flip the cassette over. The year was 1980. When I listened to Sara (FM Live version) at work (had a job where I worked alone all night) my mind would wander to where I saw myself and my life heading and to the huge goal I had set for myself. At the time it seemed so at least. It was a business goal and a large financial goal all wrapped up into one big goal. Big, big goal. For someone making $21 hour in 1980 it was a gigantic, seemingly almost impossible goal. It seemed at times almost illogical but I knew what I wanted. Long before Stevie made it big I am sure she would envision herself onstage performing before a crowd of 50,000 screaming fans. Probably since she was around 14 or 15 or so. Most likely even earlier than that. It took Stevie a while to hit her stride. Her dream did not happen overnight or even within a year. It took a few years. To be honest, more than a decade. For her big dream, multiple decades. In 1975 Stevie turned 27 while achieving worldwide success with the album Fleetwood Mac.<br><br>From Wiki: <br>Nicks&apos;s mother was protective, keeping her at home &quot;more than most people&quot; and fostered in her daughter a love of fairy tales.<br><br> &nbsp; &nbsp; Stevie had an overwhelming burning desire inner dream and so did I. I thought about my dream every day. I dreamed at night about it. I wrote down with a pen and paper every single day, 100 times, a simple 6 word sentence as if my dream was now a current reality. My thumb and middle finger developed small calluses due to my pen over the years. I can still feel a bit of them today 40 years later. Stevie&apos;s big dream came rather quickly. It took Stevie another 10 years after 1975 for her bigger dreams to come true. It has been a lifelong process for her. <br><br> &nbsp; &nbsp;My big dream did not happen so fast. It took 40 years to arrive. But I knew it would come. I felt it every single day for 40 years. As I mentioned earlier my dream was business and financial related. I love to travel and I love the freedom that owning a business or several businesses gives you. It&apos;s not for everyone but since I was 3 or 4 I knew exactly how I wanted to live my life. I always wanted to march to the beat of my own drummer. Well, it took 40 years for that dream of mine to show up. It&apos;s a long time right? How many would have given up earlier? How many could exist for 40 years with that dream haunting their minds every single day? My dream was so big I had no idea how it would happen or even how I could make it happen. All I knew for 40 years was that my dream could happen and it would happen and it was already real somewhere but just not yet in this realm. Here is the whole point I have been leading up to for all you 1% of the 1%. Even though that business and financial goal dream took 40 years to finally arrive, it took just 7 more months after that arrival to double. In other words what took 40 years to arrive, only took another 7 months to do the same exact thing I was dreaming about for 40 years! Don&apos;t ask me how. I don&apos;t know how it works, but I do know it does work. And in the most mysterious ways you can ever imagine.<br><br>“May you always know the power and beauty of imagination”<br>--- Christine Brooks<br><br>“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”<br>--- John Muir<br><br>“There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”<br>--- L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl

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  @scottydc8 · 6 years ago (edited)

  In the late 80s I was a security officer for a hotel on the big Island of Hawaii. One evening I was made aware Stevie and some of the band were in the hotel having dinner. Having been a big fan of hers and the band I hoped to at least see her. Later that evening I was making my rounds around the hotel parking area when a small van approached me , as it got closer the front passenger window was being rolled down, as it came to a stop next to me there was Stevie smiling at me. My heart was in my throat, there she was. all she wanted to say to me was hello and wished me a safe and pleasant evening, I said thank you very much and you too. She smiled and said bye. What a special memory for me to have of her. To me it says a lot about her and the others that they stopped and didn&apos;t just ignore me and drive past. This song is my favorite of hers and I have played it so many times before and since she stopped and said hello to me. I still see her in my minds eye when ever I listen to her sing this song. So special.

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  @garethswallow9996 · 3 years ago

  If they said they found a 4 day version of this i&apos;d still listen!

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  @AlexandriaMorgan · 2 years ago (edited)

  my cat died on my lap on the way to the vet while this song was playing. my favorite song that randomly came on shuffle. it truly is a magical song for me now and I’m so lucky to have drowned in the sea of love of that little rescue tuxedo cat who I got to love from his age 3-10. Best seven years of my life. Rip Cooper. Mommy loves you so much and misses you everyday

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  @RoadHammer1972 · 5 years ago

  I’m a 48 year old long haul truck driver and I’ve listened to this song more times than I can say, with the windows down, through the desert or the plains or back east. Wherever I am when I hear it I cry

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  @catmom1322 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m a 72-year-old woman &amp; I&apos;ve loved Fleetwood Mac for a very long time. I&apos;d like to say Stevie is an elegant woman &amp; I might even say &quot;sexy.&quot; She&apos;s got style, panache, &amp; beauty. I&apos;ve read some of the comments here &amp; I feel the same way.

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  @thepsycat · 2 years ago

  Ever since mom was diagnosed with cancer, Been listening to this two to three times a week. It’s really healing

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  @laurieuebbing3500 · 3 years ago

  I found Stevie in 1981, and knew this woman is someone I wanted for an older sister! I was 18, she was 33....now we are 60 and 75, and my life is richer because of her. I love not only her, but her family, her dad was the best, always provided for the family, and mom was the best in raising Stevie and Chris. Oh how I wish I could have met her parents, I&apos;m a total supporter for family, and hers was wonderful. I will love Stevie for all Eternity...

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  @lisakatz9437 · 5 years ago

  When I was a young girl, I was introduced to FM. I instantly fell in love with Stevie. I vowed that if I had a daughter I would name her Sara because of this song. In 2003, I was blessed with the most beautiful baby girl. Her name is Sara Grace. She is the love of my life ❤️

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  @cars0ne · 4 years ago (edited)

  This is one of those songs from another realm. I&apos;m embarrassed for those who thumbs downed this.

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  @EL-kf8nq · 5 years ago

  This song knocks my soul to its knees. Every single time I listen to it. I’m an old man now, but Stevie has been in my mind, my heart, and my soul for the last 50 years. Thank God.

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  @Sandy-zr5hs · 6 years ago

  My beautiful daughter was named Sara after this song, she is 20 now and she is the poet in her mama’s heart 💕

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