Publish date: 2023-12-15
Written by one of the group's singer-songwriters, pianist Christine McVie, "Songbird" is the sixth song on "Rumours." It is a fan favorite for the emotional lyrics about love and the sad yet uplifting melody. It was never released as a single, but instead included on the B side of "Dreams," the second single released from the album. The backstory about the song is a fascinating, too. McVie has said it was as if the song was delivered to her by angels.
"I woke up in the middle of the night and the song just came into my head," she told The Guardian in a 2016 interview. "I got out of bed, played it on a little piano I have in my room, and sang it with no tape recorder. I sang it from beginning to end: everything." She said it's the only time a song came to her in that way.
"I can't tell you quite how I felt; it was as if I'd been visited — it was a very spiritual thing," she recalled. McVie also added that if she could write a few more like "Songbird," which she penned in about 30 minutes, she'd be "a happy girl."
But what is the song about? "It doesn't really relate to anybody in particular; it relates to everybody. A lot of people play it at their wedding or bar mitzvahs or at their dog's funeral. It's universal. It's about you and nobody else. It's about you and everybody else," McVie told Uncut (via Song Meanings and Facts).
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