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But the track, like the album, is also fueled by the rest of the group\u2019s personal turmoil: Christine and John McVie\u2019s divorce, as well as Mick Fleetwood\u2019s crumbling marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Play the Way You Feel It<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (Official Music Video) [4K]\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y3ywicffOj4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the couple splintering. Here you go again, Nicks says. But she warns her partner that loneliness is likely to accompany his freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Now, here you go again,<br>You say you want your freedom.<br>Well, who am I to keep you down?<br>It\u2019s only right that you should,<br>Play the way you feel it.<br>But listen carefully to the sound,<br>Of your loneliness<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, she says the heavy silence of the night will trigger regret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Like a heartbeat drives you mad,<br>In the stillness of remembering.<br>What you had and what you lost,<br>And what you had and what you lost<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Crystal Visions and Dueling Emotions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicks often places her songs inside dreams or at night. There\u2019s a supernatural vibe to many of them. And while Buckingham\u2019s breakup songs are angrier (\u201cShacking up\u2019s all you want to do\u201d), Nicks floats above the bitterness in the hazy wisdom of \u201cDreams\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the diverging perspectives, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/the-new-yorker-interview\/stevie-nicks-tavi-gevinson-conversation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, \u201cHe\u2019s looking at it from a very unpleasant, angry way, and I\u2019m saying, in my more airy-fairy way, we\u2019re gonna be all right. We\u2019ll get through this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Oh, thunder only happens when it\u2019s raining.<br>Players only love you when they\u2019re playing.<br>Say, \u201cWomen, they will come and they will go.\u201d<br>When the rain washes you clean, you\u2019ll know,<br>You\u2019ll know<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u201cDreams\u201d, she has crystal visions, yet keeps them to herself. Still, the track reads like a warning. 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