Editing Rumours (album) (section)

===Lyrics===
Fleetwood Mac's main songwriters—Buckingham, Christine McVie, and Nicks—worked individually on songs but sometimes shared lyrics. "The Chain" is the only track on which all members, including Fleetwood and John McVie, collaborated. All songs on ''Rumours'' concern personal, often troubled relationships.<ref name=dvda/> According to Christine McVie, the fact that the lyricists were focusing on the various separations became apparent to the band only in hindsight.<ref name=dvd6>{{harvnb|''Classic Albums''|2004|loc=06:00–06:30}}</ref> "You Make Loving Fun" is about her boyfriend, Fleetwood Mac's lighting director, whom she dated after splitting from John.<ref name=min7/> Nicks' "Dreams" details a breakup and has a hopeful message, while Buckingham's similar effort in "Go Your Own Way" is more pessimistic.<ref>{{harvnb|''Classic Albums''|2004|loc=27:50–28:10}}</ref> After a short fling with a New England woman, he was inspired to write "Never Going Back Again", a song about the illusion of thinking that sadness will never occur again once content with life.<ref name=dvda/>

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"Don't Stop", written by Christine McVie, is a song about optimism. She noted that Buckingham helped her craft the verses because their personal sensibilities overlapped.<ref name=dvda/> McVie's next track, "Songbird", features more introspective lyrics about "nobody and everybody" in the form of "a little prayer".<ref>{{harvnb|''Classic Albums''|2004|loc=42:20–42:35}}</ref> "Oh Daddy", the last McVie song on the album, was written about Fleetwood and his wife [[Jenny Boyd]], who had just got back together.<ref name=Caillat>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/makingrumoursins00cail |url-access=registration |title=Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album |page=xiv, 74 |first1=Ken |last1=Caillat |first2=Steve |last2=Stiefel |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |date=5 March 2012 |access-date=19 March 2013 |isbn=9781118282366}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/boyd.htm |title=Jenny Boyd |first1=Martin |last1=Adelson |first2=Lisa |last2=Adelson |publisher=fleetwoodmac.net |access-date=19 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312014805/http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/boyd.htm |archive-date=12 March 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780671734404 |url-access= registration |quote= mick fleetwood jenny remarried 1976. |title=Musicians in Tune |first1=Jenny |last1=Boyd |first2=Holly |last2=George-Warren |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=1 May 1992 |access-date=19 March 2013 |isbn=9780671734404}}</ref> The band's nickname for Fleetwood was "the Big Daddy".<ref name=dvda/> McVie commented that the writing is slightly sarcastic and focuses on the drummer's direction for Fleetwood Mac, which always turned out to be right. Nicks' song "Gold Dust Woman" is inspired by Los Angeles and the hardship encountered in such a city.<ref name=dvda>{{cite video |people=Fleetwood Mac |title=Making of Rumours |medium=DVD-Audio (''Rumours'') |publisher=[[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]] |year=2001}}</ref> After struggling with the rock lifestyle, Nicks became addicted to cocaine; the lyrics address her belief in "keeping going".<ref name=dvd28>{{harvnb|''Classic Albums''|2004|loc=28:25–28:55}}</ref>