Stevie Nicks has returned with a rallying cry for women, dropping new single “The Lighthouse” Friday (Sept. 27) in hopes of reinvigorating the fight for reproductive healthcare.
The track opens with a melodic pinging beat and anthemic sound effects as the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman sings softly, “I have my scars, you have yours/ Don’t let them, take your power.”
As the song intensifies and eventually devolves into an explosive rock n’ roll head-banger, Nicks encourages women to “stand up and take it back” in reference to women’s rights, specifically abortion access. “They’ll take your soul they’ll take your power/ Unless you save it,” she belts. “And that’s that/ Unless you stand up and take it back.”
Nicks also dropped a music video for “The Lighthouse,” which finds her singing passionately inside the lantern room of an actual lighthouse looking out onto stormy seas. It also splices in photos taken from women’s rights marches.
In a statement about the song, Nicks revealed that she “wrote this song a few months after Roe v. Wade was overturned” in June 2022. “It seemed like overnight, people were saying, ‘What can we, as a collective force, do about this…,’” she continued in her note. “For me, it was to write a song.”
“I have often said to myself, ‘This may be the most important thing I ever do,’” Nicks added. “To stand up for the women of the United States and their daughters and granddaughters ~ and the men that love them. This is an anthem.”
Watch Nicks’ music video for “The Lighthouse” below.
