Well, I run around like a spirit in flight Just one more chip off an already broken heart I wrote it about Heathcliff and Cathy, and the fact that they were one person, that they couldn’t be together and they couldn’t be separate, and about the power and the drama of the closing death bed scene… All those amazing things he says to her” (Nicks, 2016). And I wrote it completely and utterly about the movie Wuthering Heights. I remember singing it during a Rolling Stone cover shoot for Bella Donna. This was very much meant to be shared and given to people to have them just love the idea that they have wild hearts ’cause I love that - I love that” (Nicks, 1983). “And everybody’s heart is wild, so it’s not like I’ve got any kind of hold on it, ’cause this entire album was written for everybody and their wild heart. People will understand that, probably more than a lot of other things, because it definitely takes you through your nervous breakdown and through your recovery, and it takes you through your survival. There’s something about the vocal that just gives me shivers because it’s just so real.

I think that people are gonna love ‘Wild Heart.’ It’s the one song that I go back to time to time again and listen to. There are some wild words in it that just sort of popped up. “It was born in New York, and it’s just intense. When Nicks played the song to her friend Tom Petty he said the song was 'epic' The song runs for over 6 minutes long.“Wild Heart” is the first track on The Wild Heart, preceding “If Anyone Falls.” An alternate version of “Wild Heart” appears on the deluxe edition of The Wild Heart (2016). She made several lyric changes to the song, such as an intro dedicated to her recently deceased friend Robin Anderson. Nicks wrote the music of 'Wild Heart' for the album version of the song which gave her full writing credits for the song. The backing music was written by Lindsey Buckingham found in a demo which can also be found on YouTube. The video has been viewed over a million times on YouTube. The video ends with a version of McVie's 'Wish You Were Here'. It starts with Nicks singing a rendition of Love In Store, a song by Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie. The famous video was recorded during a Rolling Stone photo shoot in 1981. A long, long time ago, right at the same time that Bella Donna came out. I mean at the same time that Enchanted was written. The song the Wild Heart is kind of an abstract song, that was written in Long Island, New York. Nicks said the following about the song in a Jim Ladd interview in 1983

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