Fleetwood Mac - Go your own way Live 1979

The ultimate break-up song. The ultimate pop song. "Go Your Own Way" has such a passionate, furious driving beat that takes you to such a climactic explosive high, only to bring you down with the realization that it's really about the heartache of ending a relationship with someone you love. This song perfectly captures these feelings of hurt and anger.
"Go Your Own Way" was written by Lindsey Buckingham during the Rumours sessions. Lindsey has said he usually does not write the lyrics to his songs first, but rather initially has the music track in place prior to adding the lyrics. Lindsey's passionate guitar playing is what brings his feelings into his songs, while the addition of the lyrics creates a delicate balance between this guitar playing and putting his feelings into words. "Go Your Own Way" is a truthful song with intense emotions of love and fury that originate from the heart.
The song reflects the feelings he had revolving around the ending of his relationship with fellow band member and romantic partner at the time, Stevie Nicks. The music and lyrics show a man plagued by anger, confusion, and disbelief. Through Lindsey's eyes, he paints quite a different picture of what breaking-up feels like than what Stevie has portrayed about the same relationship in her songs at this time (see the mysterious "Dreams" and the haunting "Silver Springs.")
"Loving you, isn't the right thing to do, how can I ever change things that I feel." Lindsey is trying to convince himself that his love for Stevie is not good for him. By doing this, he will feel comfortable with the break-up, although, in his heart, he does not entirely believe this, saying he can never change the fact that he still loves her.
"If I could, maybe I'd give you my world. How can I, when you won't take it from me." Lindsey would give anything to Stevie - his heart, his soul, in essence, his "world" - if only she would stay. But she doesn't and he acknowledges this. "Maybe" is the key word here. Lindsey is offering her his world, but not all of it. He is still saving something for himself, possibly as a way to keep control over the relationship or to keep his self-respect. Stevie wants her independence though, and for reasons best know to her, she leaves. Lindsey does not understand why Stevie does not want to be part of his world.
Stevie probably did not want to hurt or necessarily leave Lindsey, but she went her own way for reasons best known to her and that he may not have understood. The consequence of her leaving left Lindsey very hurt and confused and he lashed out at her in this song. In between the verses of anger and betrayal are ones of questioning and pain. Although the lyrics in the song are mostly acrimonious, for Lindsey, they were truthful. It is ironic that such a bitter song is really and truly a love song, shouting out final pleas for the woman he loves.
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Written by lindsey buckingham.
Loving you
Isnt the right thing to do
How can I ever change things
That I feel
If I could
Maybe Id give you my world
How can i
When you wont take it from me
You can go your own way
Go your own way
You an call it
Another lonely day
You can go your own way
Go your own way
Tell me why
Everything turned around
Packing up
Shacking up is all you wanna do
If I could
Baby Id give you my world
Open up
Everythings waiting for you
You can go your own way
Go your own way
You an call it
Another lonely day
You can go your own way
Go your own way

[@gblfc62]

I'm 21 years old and recently started collecting vinyl due to my love of music. Just added Rumours to my collection. There was no way I couldn't! Absolute classic.

[@stevenherberts968]

First listened to rumours over 40 years ago, my dad had the LP, times were good then, I love Fleetwood Mac.

[@jteach23]

All the members of Fleetwood Mac are just incredibly talented. One of the best rock bands of our time.

[@simflyr1957]

Rumors was their best album... they were living it.... it was real! There are lots of other songs between Mac and just Stevie, decades of great music. I really like "The Dance". When they were touring that album, I got to take my Oldest daughter (she was like 19 at the time) Rhiannon. I was one on the most emotional times ever, singing Rhiannon with her with the band. Music is all about memories.

[@MondoBone]

This whole album really helped me through the darkest period of my life... when some girl completely broke my heart. Thank you Fleetwood Mac... you rock!

[@LivyMckeon]

Discovering songs like this at the age of 16 makes me wish I was born decades before I was. Holy shit.

[@OrdoClan]

I know, right

[@jaspernelson6661]

Boy did you ever miss out! :) But at least you've got far more years ahead of you to hear them than us old farts! :)

[@janisnolette]

There is a treasure of songs for you to discover, enjoy, listen to the song landslide✌

[@jeffwatts1126]

You are better off, believe me. I was a child of the 60's, a teenager of the 70's. We all thought we were born too late, missed the Beatles and so on. now Im 60, and Im damn grateful I was there for all the great music of the 70's, saw them all in concert when they were young. But damn, Im 60...the ride is almost over. Cherish your youth

[@JimmBailey]

I would kill to have been in that arena to witness this! This is absolute pop magic at its best, and at a time when the band were at its most tumultuous---the drugs, the booze, the tension, the drama and genius with all involved. Then amigst all this, working towards their magnum opus "Tusk." Sublime, simply sublime!!!

[@pscarcelone1]

Just saw them in Orlando... they are older but still better than 3/4ths of today's bands... this is one of my favorites of theirs.

[@DeepeyeLV]

There are songs which NEVER die... this is one of them :)

[@durgannkkfernandanzh9305]

glad someone else heard the passion and true feeling that went into this song Best breakup song ever!!! We all have to go our own way.. even when it hurts.. it's worth it.

[@Stoney4020]

Great the way this song starts out. Wish I would have been there. Turned 67 today. Hey, hey, my, my.

[@busky18]

My generation will never know real music like this...

[@susanstough319]

Love this band -- grew up with them, Lindsey Buckingham I love you 💖

[@joaquinbond007]

By far the best live version of this song on KZbin...

[@sardis99]

Ditto to what carebear said. My father brought me up on this as well. Music brings alive so many memories. Old homes, old lives, the past comes back.

[@lobodomato7]

Uma das melhores bandas da decada de 70. Excelente.

[@dirttracker3a]

That is one of a kind and made just for Lindsey.

[@SpeckledVector]

Love this song. This era of music is the best

[@Vindicator58]

My wife and I were dating when this came out and we broke up and got back numerous times to this song. Good days even though painful at times.

[@TheBillswill]

i'm not sure if there were two more beautiful people on earth than Stevie and Lindsey.

[@acmelbourne]

So far the best version on youtube

[@mightybeeb]

one of the best rock songs of the 70's

[@lalaland2812]

glad someone else heard the passion and true feeling that went into this song

[@unyieldingcreek1]

Reminds me of my dad blasting the old Fleetwood Mac vinyls while I crawled around on the hideous orange carpet with the lime green couch.

[@davidpike1313]

fabulous song best ever, stevie and bucks are magic

[@Bigdaddynmomma2]

30 years ago....seems like yesterday. Damn but I haven't changed much. Still love it. Top top stuff, good version. Thanks for setting this up for everybody to have.

[@Doc9871]

Buckingham predicted early '80's fashion before even getting out of the '70's? Amazing...

[@pleasuretrip]

Some songs are like fine wines. In this case, like the people that play it, this tune gets better with age.

[@Putaspellonyou]

"you do lose track of time...cuz your days and nights aren't set up right....that and the colossal amounts of blow you do"

[@376cubicinches]

Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks! Doesn't get any better than that!

[@malibumut]

@SuperRod88 and I'm pretty stoked to say I sat on his Lordships lap at a Sunshine Coast Venue, the old "Thommos", Mooloolaba Hotel, back in the early' 90's, & my brother still has his drumsticks.... Brilliant times. :)

[@ROCKSTARCRANE]

You got that right Elijah.....sick chops hath Mr B....

[@morenarieta]

OH MY GOD flamingcrystal I really enjoyed all the detailed analysis you posted for us,apart from the song. It's brilliant.. Well done, thank u. God bless u dear..

[@caravaggio31]

Pop song??? This is ROCK N ROLL!

[@nickyl9040]

I just discovered that I've always misheard the opening line I always thought that it was"Loving you , Is it the right thing to do ?"and it's actually "Loving you , Isn't the right thing to do "Man that changes everything

[@lisahair2love]

Yeah I can see that changed the whole song for you😂 are you gonna be ok? lol

[@nickyl9040]

sniff sniff Yes I am Thanks for taking the time to care

[@captinbeyond]

I find it weird how most if not all of their music was written to another band member about:breaking up/sex/drugs/life........ What a crazy lifestyle they had and they sing along with a song blasting their own selves for :breaking up/, sex/drugs/life. "and now I'd like to do a little song I wrote to Christie to tell her I was pretty much tired of banging her and wanted fresh sex"

[@andrewkrol1680]

musical greatness - very sad though that pain is the inspiration

[@chicho440sixpack]

Thank you for the context information! Greetings from Argentina!

[@WatchYourAttitude]

must have been hell for stevie to sing along to this song.

[@elizabethcarpenter4313]

Stevie has often said she hated that song.

[@k.g.alatore355]

@@elizabethcarpenter4313 She seems to mostly just hate that it's specifically directed at her and that an impression of her that wasn't accurate was conveyed in the lyrics. The whole "shacking up" line really got to her since she's admittedly extremely prudish.

[@danielbelardino7662]

@@k.g.alatore355 Even though she had a ton of boyfriends lol

[@manifestgtr]

Stevie has been singing thing tune for two years here and you can tell she’s about a mile beyond fed up with it by this point haha

[@wickwack024]

The best thing Fleetwood Mac ever did, besides forming. Was discovering Lindsey and Stevie!!

[@johnjoyko1]

@Vindicator58 Awesome retrospect bro. hope life is good.

[@HeatherBJustUS1LuV]

i was just 5yrs old when i went to my first concert event.(-: ⭐🍄🍀⭐🆒 Fleetwood Mac along with Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band toured through our southern style supposedly sunshine divine Florida state during my mom's "arrive VERY high" late twenties. i have fairly strong memories as music by these artist was/is magical beyond understanding. I'm lucky to have been taken along with mama & my uncle as such a "youngen". mama could be nice to me but it was more often than not she seemed to have no real care for me in her heart. i know it is very much her not me coz i have good understanding of the matter. it is what it was. my "mom" is/was a bit frightening at times. today, my "mama" is still "arriving high" (v. "arriving VERY high") if she gets there. its truth although more than likely she just doesn't arrive at all. she never gets there-never makes it! either way, i remember & love the music, memorized both albums and danced near religious w/mama especially to Rumours the central Florida fairgrounds saw a gigantic and "hippiefied"-© crowd of wide opened souls dancing mingling streaking nude strutting around. just grooving on the music ..the cluttered couple's dashing flashing fresh cut up piles of people.hot from heat scattered about as for my little 5yr old eyes this WOW WOW WOW! mass of music lovers covered the huge lot in assorted circles some bizarre but beautiful triangles ...a field of blankets spread out laying upon the tired earth. those 70's were the days!

[@Ruffyalso]

Cant believe how young & good looking Lindsey is. I dint discover them till 90's and they were old.

[@sisterearthful]

I thought that Lindsey said, "you can all it Thunder," but he really says, " You can call it Another lonely day." Then, he play his guitar and the rest join in. That's a great collaboration, and I feel like I'm in Rock Heaven.

[@ishisbananas]

if I was a teenager in 1979, or alive even, I would have had a major crush on Lindsay Buckingham.

[@Vindicator58]

Stevie still melts me!

[@mygunisinnocent8028]

I think they sounded better live back then. I think a lot of bands over the years get tired of playing the song the same way as the album, over and over again and change it up a little, here and there. I like to go to a concert and hear it just like the album.

[@justinsmodernlife]

Fantastic description, thanks!

[@maryannmay7105]

Brilliant song and such a great band

[@3third3eye3]

Awesome, thats real music!!!

[@knopfler720]

This is my all-time favorite breakup song.

[@spaztech]

We all have to go our own way.. even when it hurts.. it's worth it.

[@Vindicator58]

Those were musics best days!

[@AsianGlow]

she rocks that tambourine!

[@miumiuo19]

beautiful lindsey

[@robinman2629]

I think this is a epic playlist!

[@LegionAvalon]

+rob inman ... ah but no-one reading this knows which list you came in on....

[@BerneBaby]

Classic Rock Education? Listening to it for the first time, truly a great playlist if this is the one you were in...

[@m-agirouard3329]

We should assume its Classic Rock Education 500 songs, great playlist indeed.

[@caiocochrane2446]

Been there, done that. Good stuff.

[@jaskau2462]

NOW some one has typed some facts! (made a typo. cleared)

[@teenloveCC]

Awe cute... loved that last part.

[@bodella7]

Stevie will always be my Welch Witch... Love you Stevie...

[@trinamclauchlin7560]

ONE of my favorites.

[@rcroshere]

Awesome!!!!

[@carolynirelan4395]

Mesmerized by Lindsey ❤

[@parkany31]

the best song ever!Minden idők legjobb dala!

[@elmasching0n]

awesome song !!!!!

[@4446oo]

omg best song great loven

[@doubledre31]

great song!

[@bonniebond-hornig5161]

Love the Emotions in this Song😊😕

[@NicksandSlick]

Stevie and Lindsey are beautiful, imagine if they had of had kids!

[@paullavan1853]

Awesome. Simply that.

[@kenhernandez8128]

An all time great song.

[@supersixfour88]

amazing

[@dani621000]

j'aime j'aime j'aime cette chanson!!!!! j'avais 15 ans a l'époque de RUMOURS ce fut un flash incroyable!!!

[@yusribinishak]

Best breakup song ever!!!

[@claptongroupie]

This song came out during my first divorce from my hubby..got me through it...thanks Fleetwood...

[@guyd37]

@WatchYourAttitude Last year in Edmonton, they kept looking at each other during the song and hugged at the end.

[@ThatsClassicalMusic]

amazing song! 70's msuic

[@greatestgoalie25]

I kicked ass singing this on Rock Band the other day on Hard difficulty.

[@Itsallaboutthekisses]

How old do I feel, I saw them In concert when I was a teenager :)

[@dirttracker3a]

Yeah really , you would think he would be in the top 3. He's number one in my book, all the way back to the first album.

[@kmacmuzikmafia27]

Wow they looked good back then!

[@elijahlucian]

he's the fingerpick god

[@1949man]

Jeez--I feel old!!!

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Mate, he can't force her. The same way she can't force him to do the awesome solo to Silver Spring. I personally think it is a mutual appreciation.

[@MsFanmail]

amazing song !

[@ChuckieInMT]

Luv seein' Mick in action -

[@lauyatsan1]

Fleetwood Mac forever!!!

[@chookfeather]

Stevie and Lindsey broke up in 76 the last day of recording Rumors. Go Your Own Way was written for the album in 76. Pretty sure she has never had a fling with Petty he was already happily married at the time. She had 2year (76-78) relationship with Don Henley after she broke up with Lindsey and then was involved with Mick Fleetwood.

[@rodeopac]

I was 12 when this happened ~ Love it 4 Eva

[@rayodl92]

they are really good

[@RubyLovesTomDonnelly]

I will always love Lindsay~~~

[@guyp9964]

... Ten thumbs up!!!...

[@raulu2be]

¡Qué buen tema!

[@LoveVanillaRose]

AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE

[@lauren59231]

the first time my mate india heard this, she loves it lol xxx

[@megaautumn99]

this is about the time stevie started to sound like a billy goat. musical greatness - very sad though that pain is the inspiration

[@ssia6938]

Love Steve's top hat days. Her comments reflect how different her voice was back then.

[@vakantieland4]

@inquiry7 No problem; we both enjoy their music, which is timeless.

[@ianhunterfan]

I love Lindsey

[@Scott1433]

There is the crap that tops the charts in 2018 and then there is this

[@TheDilligan]

i love how back then is not about a good show with flashy effects and lights and all that crap. its about the music

[@SuperRod88]

Happy Birthday Mick Fleetwood (June 24)

[@Jonas07Spry]

You know the difference between Fleetwood Mac and Glee, People like Fleetwood Mac