Weather To Fly Lyrics
Are we having the time of our lives?
Are we coming across clear?
Are we coming across fine?
Are we part of the plan here?
Are we having the time of our lives?
Are we coming across clear?
Are we coming across fine?
Are we having the time of our lives?
Are we part of the plan here?
One little room and the biggest of plans.
The days were shaping up,
Frosty and bright.
Perfect weather to fly.
Ring from the walls,
we'd sing in the doorways,
or bicker and row
Just figuring how we were wired inside
Perfect weather to fly.
we decided instead
we should pull out the thread that was
stitching us into this tapestry vile,
And why wouldn't you try?
Perfect weather to fly.
One little room and the biggest of plans.
The days were shaping up,
Frosty and bright.
Perfect weather to fly.
Ring from the walls,
we'd sing in the doorways,
or bicker and row
Just figuring how we were wired inside
Perfect weather to fly.
we decided instead
we should pull out the thread that was
stitching us into this tapestry vile,
And why wouldn't you try?
Perfect weather to fly.
Guy Garvey, lead singer of Elbow, states about this track from "A Seldom Seen Kid" that the first questions are addressed to us all from him. He's questioning what we feel about not just the band, but about their lives and of course, beneath it all, our own lives too.
Is life, love and music all it should be to us? Are we having the time of our lives?
The rest of the song was written by Garvey for the other band members about how they met, how they started and how they decided to be different from pretty much every other band out there at the moment.
Interesting to compare this song with the first track on Asleep in the Back, Any Day Now, which also talks about making the break away from a home town. The earlier song seems to have a more desperate, urgent feel, whilst Weather to Fly is a more beautiful, reflective, nostalgic look back to how things were in the early days.
Thanks for the info niteflite01! I think this is a great band and needs much more recognition. Been listening to them for a few years now.
i heard this song on the itunes radio station Soma FM Indie Pop Rocks. i fell in love with it instantly.
I first heard Elbow's music whilst making the long commute home from work late one evening in 2006. I believe it was playing on a college station here on the east coast of the U.S.A.
I've always been a huge Peter Gabriel fan, so Guy's voice had an immediate appeal and his lyric writing style has such a poetic sensibility that I was immediately hooked.
I played the music for my son, who was ten at the time, and he picked it up as a favorite too.
Most of my friends are musicians, who also took to it. It's so difficult to find music that is enjoyable to listen to, makes you think and seems enduring these days. I look forward to each new offering!
The way this is played live, is completley stunning.
To me it's about escaping from an unsatisfying life. Interesting contrast with Station Approach, where Guy is giving thanks for his hometown and family, even though they drive him up the wall sometimes. I guess they can "pull out the thread" without completely disconnecting. In fact, they've done it pretty well, I'd say.