The former Fleetwood Mac singer has said the song "might be the most important thing I ever do" Stevie Nicks has released a powerful new song ‘The Lighthouse’, inspired by the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade – check it out the video below. READ MORE: Stevie Nicks interview: “In Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie and I were a force of nature” The former Fleetwood Mac singer has described the song as “the most important thing I ever do”, a rousing call-to-arms for women to reclaim their reproductive healthcare rights in the US and beyond. “ I have my scars, you have yours / Don’t let them take your power ,” she sings softly at the opening of the track.
The track swells into a full rock production, with Nicks singing: “ They’ll take your soul, they’ll take your power / Unless you save it / And that’s that / Unless you stand up and take it back ”. The song’s accompanying video finds Nicks dressed in black inside the beam of a lighthouse as a night-time storm rages outside, with cutaways to feminist protesters from different eras. Watch it here: In a statement released alongside the song, Nicks has said: “I wrote this song a few months after Roe v Wade was overturned.
It seemed like overnight, people were saying ‘what can we, as a collective force, do about this...
’ For me, it was to write a song. “It took a while because I was on the road. Then early one morning I was watching the news on TV and a certain newscaster said someth.