The musician wrote the song to “stand up for the women of the United States and their daughters and granddaughters”
Stevie Nicks stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform her recent single, “The Lighthouse.” Appearing with her live band, Nicks gave a moody, impassioned performance of the song, a call-to-action for women’s rights that she wrote shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
“Don’t let them take your power/Don’t leave it alone in the final hours,” she sang during the late-night show, timed to air on Election Day eve. “Don’t close your eyes and hope for the best/The dark is out there, the light is going fast.”
“The Lighthouse” was co-written with Magnus Birgersson and Vincent Villuis and Nicks co-produced it with Dave Cobb and Sheryl Crow, with the latter contributing guitar and bass.
“I wrote this song a few months after Roe v. Wade was overturned,” Nicks said in a statement when she officially released the song in September. “It seemed like overnight, people were saying ‘What can we, as a collective force, do about this?’ For me, it was to write a song. It took a while because I was on the road. Then early one morning, I was watching the news on TV and a certain newscaster said something that felt like she was talking to me — explaining what the loss of Roe v. Wade would come to mean. I wrote the song the next morning and recorded it that night.”
She added, “That was Sept. 6, 2022. I have been working on it ever since. I have often said to myself, ‘This may be the most important thing I ever do.’ 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.”
Nicks recently performed “The Lighthouse” on Saturday Night Live along with “Edge of Seventeen,” the classic from her 1981 debut solo album. The appearance marked her first time on the sketch-comedy show since 1983.
