This song was written in 2008 but was only released in 2020.
Stevie Nicks has made her return with a video for her first solo song in six years, “Show Them The Way (feat. Dave Grohl).”
The powerful new protest song sounds like classic Stevie Nicks, and it was co-written with The Bird and the Bee’s Greg Kurstin. Dave Grohl also drums on the track, while Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart plays guitar. The accompanying Cameron Crow-created video comes packed with black-and-white photography of protests from the past and present.
“I hope that this song and its words will be seen as a prayer ~ a prayer for our country ~ a prayer for our world,” Nicks explains.
Album Medicine At Midnight
Released February 5, 2021
No Son Of Mine harks back to some of the band’s best moments, a rollicking and banging anti-war song that injects the rock squarely back in the record, double dose.
La canzone più rock su questo anno di pandemia arriva dal 77enne Mick Jagger, aiutato da Dave Grohl dei Foo Fighters per un pezzo diretto e tirato che descrive bene le varie fasi dal lockdown alla luce in fondo al tunnel, senza risparmiare critiche ai vari complottisti. Anche una critica severa alla gestione della pandemia soprattutto nella fase iniziale da parte di Trump e di Boris Johnson.
As a child growing up in the suburbs of Washington DC, I was always afraid of war. I had nightmares of missiles in the sky and soldiers in my backyard, most likely brought upon by the political tension of the early 1980’s and my proximity to the Nation’s Capitol. My youth was spent under the dark cloud of a hopeless future.
Last fall, as I was driving my 11 year old daughter to school, she turned to me and asked, “Daddy, is there going to be a war?” My heart sank in my chest as I looked into her innocent eyes, because I realized that she was now living under that same dark cloud of a hopeless future that I had felt 40 years ago.
I wrote “Waiting on a War” that day.
Everyday waiting for the sky to fall. Is there more to this than that? Is there more to this than just waiting on a war? Because I need more. We all do.
This song was written for my daughter, Harper, who deserves a future, just as every child does.
– Dave Grohl, press release.
I've been waiting on a war since I was young (continua)
«Da bambino cresciuto nella periferia di Washington DC, ho sempre avuto paura della guerra. Avevo incubi di missili nel cielo e soldati nel mio cortile, molto probabilmente originati dalla tensione politica dei primi anni '80 e della mia vicinanza al Campidoglio. La mia giovinezza è trascorsa sotto la nuvola oscura di un futuro senza speranza.
Lo scorso autunno, mentre accompagnavo mia figlia di 11 anni a scuola, si è rivolta a me e mi ha chiesto "Papà, ci sarà una guerra?". Il mio cuore è affondato nel petto mentre guardavo nei suoi occhi innocenti, perché ho capito che ora viveva sotto quella stessa nube oscuradi un futuro senza speranza che avevo provato 40 anni fa.
Quel giorno ho scritto "Waiting On a War". Ogni giorno aspettando che il cielo cada. C'è di più in questo di quello? C'è di più in questo che aspettare solo una guerra? Perché ho bisogno di più. Noi tutti ne abbiamo bisogno.
Questa canzone è stata scritta per mia figlia, Harper, che merita un futuro, proprio come tutti i bambini»
Aspetto una guerra da quando ero giovane (continua)
Written By Greg Kurstin & Stevie Nicks
Guitar - Dave Stewart
This song was written in 2008 but was only released in 2020.
The powerful new protest song sounds like classic Stevie Nicks, and it was co-written with The Bird and the Bee’s Greg Kurstin. Dave Grohl also drums on the track, while Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart plays guitar. The accompanying Cameron Crow-created video comes packed with black-and-white photography of protests from the past and present.
“I hope that this song and its words will be seen as a prayer ~ a prayer for our country ~ a prayer for our world,” Nicks explains.
Watch: Stevie Nicks shares video for new protest song featuring Dave Grohl 'Show Them The Way'