Released: July 27, 1981

Songwriter: Stevie Nicks

Producer: Tom Petty Jimmy Iovine

Outside the rain
And the heart skips a beat
Are you lonely?
Creature of the night
It's been almost a week
Could you love me only?

Look at me, for a very long time
Long enough to know
Love is a word I've been trying to find
Words don't matter
They don't matter at all

So you're still lonely
You say that it's been forever
Maybe you never knew me
Maybe you thought that
I'd never change
But you know I'm changing
You're wrong
And it's been like dying
No love's that hard to find
And I'm tired of
And I'm tired of trying
And I'm tired of trying

(It's only a dream)
Maybe it's only a dream
(It's only a dream)
I don't want to feel that
(It's only a dream)
Well it's one more link in the chain, I know
(It's only a dream)
I don't believe that
(It's only a dream)
(It's only a dream)

Outside the rain
And the heart skips a beat
So you're lonely
Creature of the night
It's been almost a week
Would you love me only?

Look in my eyes
Touch my face
Baby, there's no one
That can take my place
Look in my eyes
Touch my face
Baby, there's no one that
Can ever replace that heartache
Take away that heartache

Love is a word that some entertain
If you find it
You have won the game

Somebody said
"Outside the rain"

Stevie Nicks

Stephanie Lynn “Stevie” Nicks (born 26 May 1948) is a singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and a successful solo career. Between the two, she’s produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold well over 140 million albums. Rolling Stone named her in the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time”, and she’s been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to her Fleetwood Mac work, she’s released eight solo albums. She is touring in 2015 with Fleetwood Mac.

Diminutive at just 5' 1", she has a reputation as a strumpet, practicing witch and cocaine addict. She’s been clean and sober for years now and insists the witchcraft thing was just media hype. As for the strumpet thing, there’s an old “Judge not, lest you be judged more harshly”.

Of her life choices (being single and childless), she said