Stevie Nicks and Don Henley - Leather and Lace - Lyrics Meaning

Leather and Lace was originally recorded as a Duet between Stevie Nicks and Don Henley.

Waylon Jennings asked Stevie Nicks to write this song. The husband and wife team of Jessi Colter and Waylon Jennings released the duet album "Leather and Lace" in 1981. The song "leather and Lace was supposed to be the title cut on this album.

Stevie Nicks wrote this love song for the couple, who were both recording artists. The song was intended to be about how their relationship was working out in spite of how relationships in the music industry often fail. Before Nicks was finished with the song, Jennings and Colter were splitting up.