Cloudy Now

This song was originally in Hebrew, written by Aviv Geffen. It's about Israel.

Beautiful song, very quiet...

llowell's right.

Such a beautiful, subtle song... until the verse "We are a..." I always turn up the volume during the pause before it :]

You should listen to the original Hebrew version. :)

I have to agree that this song is about Israel and what is going on in the world with war torn generation of the last decade and a half.

The lines 'i dont see either because i live across the street' is brilliant, for some reason this is the line that really makes me sit up and listen, except for obviously the last.

I love this song of all my heart. Though the lyrics are wrong here. The correct ones:

"In a violent place we can call our country Is a mixed up man and I guess that's me The sun's in the sky, but the storm never seems to end It's a place of sorrow but we call it a home In the darkest thoughts, yeah I guess they're my own There's wealth in the bank, but there is nothing show inside

It's cloudy now It's cloudy now It's cloudy now It's getting cloudy now

In a special place that I call my life The father was cruel and he lost his wife But I don't see either 'cos I live across the street It's a beautiful thing when it starts to rain A man who drinks just to drown the pain And I can't stop from dreaming there's something else.

We are a fucked up generation It' cloudy now A fucked up generation It' cloudy now We gotta get out of here It's cloudy now A fucked up generation It's cloudy now"

Written down exactly like that. Though they do sing It's cloudy now (The sun's in the sky, but the storm never seems to end) It's cloudy now It's cloudy now (And I can't stop from dreaming there's something else) It's getting cloudy now before "It's a fucked up generation", but that isn't written in the booklet. Hah.

I'll be submitting correct versions of all of the incorrect lyrics of Blackfield. In the comments. Sorry for being an ass. ;)

I can't seem to understand the line: 'but i dont see either because i live across the street' Can anybody explain?

To answer your question Noam, I think that living across the street is a figurative way of saying that he (Aviv) thinks differently from his parents, and thus, he cannot see things through his parents' eyes.

I always thought the line "but I don't see either because I live across the street" was about how close we in relation to one another, at a physical and emotional level, but how our indifference/ inward focus leaves us miles apart.