Packing up/
Shacking up is all you want to do.

Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way” might be the greatest breakup song of all-time. Lindsey Buckingham sounds pissed off and he’s going to let Stevie Nicks know that he is not happy with their (ex?) relationship. Is he going to have a rational discussion with her?

Hell no! He’s going to write a blistering song blaming her for everything wrong in the relationship. And then he is going to make her sing backup vocals for him until she gets it right.

What resulted was some of Fleetwood’s most impassioned work, their best harmonies and perhaps Lindsey at his best. It might not have made for the most pleasant work environment.

“Go Your Own Way” is a guitar song. There is an electric guitar with an acoustic guitar plus another killer bass-line by John McVie. I don’t ever hear about him amongst the great bass players, but he certainly has some iconic bass-lines with this and The Chain (for example). Of course, Lindsey plays all the guitar parts. If you listen to them carefully, individually, you will hear the difference between a great producer and an average one.

A great producer (like Lindsey) hears layers of sounds and it often requires different instruments playing non-traditional parts to add to other sounds to add up to something greater than the sum of their pieces. Good production simply captures good sound and reproduces it.

Go Your Own Way Lyrics

Loving you-
Isn’t the right thing to do.
How can I ever change things
That I feel?

If I could
Maybe I’d give you my world.
How can I,
When you won’t take it from me?

You can go your own way.
Go your own way.
You can call it
Another lonely day.
You can go your own way.
Go your own way.

Tell me why,
Everything turned around.
Packing up-
Shacking up is all you want to do.

If I could,
Baby, I’d give you my world.
Open up-
Everything’s waiting for you.

You can go your own way.
Go your own way.
You can call it
Another lonely day.
You can go your own way.
Go your own way.

You can go your own way.
Go your own way.
You can call it
Another lonely day.
Another lonely day.
You can go your own way.
Go your own way.
You can call it
Another lonely day.

You can go your own way.
You can call it
Another lonely day.
You can go your own way.