What does rhiannon by fleetwood mac mean

I think that Rhiannon is a beautiful name. And, um, so I wrote this song and made her into what I thought was an old Welsh witch. Which is pretty weird because I never saw that. And yet the song is exactly about that.

Well, that's, that's Rhiannon. Rhiannon is the heavy-duty song to sing every night. On stage it's really a mind tripper. Everybody, including me, is just blitzed by the end of it. And I put out so much in that song that I'm nearly down. Why do you like it so much snypsy?

General Comment I personally think that this song also applies to a promiscuous woman. I think the speaker is directly questioning both Rhiannon, and whoever her lover might be, in the line "will you ever win? I don't know why, but I can never escape that idea when I hear this song. ParadoxicalSoul on April 26, General Comment I met her tonight. She was always there, yet she wasn't - rather, I just didn't notice her - so in a way I did meet her tonight, the real her.

On this very night, she came like a cat, out of nowhere, yet out of everywhere. Always there. What was wrong with me? Why didn't I see it? This song is about nothing.

Pure emotion. No explanation needed, just our calling - however we see that for how it is. Sometimes we think it's for a singular purpose, sometimes we see it as limitless. Regardless, when it creeps up on us, we know.

You can't help but know. Which is a much more difficult way to live than not having magic powers is to not be able to use them and know exactly what's coming and to not be able to tell anybody. And she has these birds that sing and that is the legend of the song of the birds of Rhiannon.

And they sing this song that is uh, said takes away pain and suffering and if you hear the song you just sort of blank out and go away and then when you wake up everthing's all right. What if my Rhiannon falls flat on her face? Then, it's not my choice to release her as a single, she is a mythological goddess of horses and steeds and maker of birds and she's a brilliant, brilliant character I wrote Rhiannon because I loved her name and I loved her story.

I didn't write her to be sold, she simply is not for sale and has never been. Rhiannon is the Goddess of Steeds and the Maker of Birds, and her song is a song that takes away pain. When you hear her song, you close your eyes and fall asleep, and when you wake up the pain is gone or the danger is gone and you'll see her three birds flying away.

That's the legend. So, whenever I sing the song, I always think of that I just thought the name was so pretty that I wanted to write something about a girl named Rhiannon. I wrote it about three months before I joined Fleetwood Mac, in about And then to find out that Rhiannon was a real mythical character!

I went and read the four books of Rhiannon, and visited the lady who'd translated them. Rhiannon is the maker of birds, and the goddess of steeds; she's the protector of horses. Her music is like a pain pill. When you wake up and hear her birds singing her little song, the danger will have passed. I realized that somehow I had managed to pen a song that went very much along with the mythical tale of Rhiannon. That's when everybody started saying Stevie must be a black witch or something.

I once, a very long time ago, wrote a song about her. She revealed this in her autobiography. Name Optional. October 30, February 13, November 12, Skip to content Fleetwood Mac.