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Weathered

from English Bones by James Walker

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about

Weathered is a song that comes from a wholly personal place, and I feel as though I would be disingenuous in not divulging the meaning behind the track. I was in a relationship with someone, and just as every good sad song goes, we fell apart. It was a toxic, mean, and truly horrible breakup, with a lot of name-calling, one-upping, and generally feeling like awful people. The dust settled, and about six months later, I (stupidly) decided to meet up with him again. We wanted to reconnect. We'd be chatting again via text, and to me it just felt right.

When we met back up, it was like our souls had shifted. I couldn't see in him what I felt attracted to in the first place. His laugh sounded different, the colour of his hair seemed off. Was that tattoo there before? It just didn't feel right; he seemed older, more tired, more weathered. But he swore that everything was good, that everything was going well. I couldn't, and still can't, pinpoint what was different, but there was something that made me realise I'd fallen out of love.

It's been eighteen months since then, but there are occasions where I still think about some of the times we shared. It was nice. Was it worth the fallout, the self-loathing & the soul-searching? Definitely not. But hey, at least I got this song out of it.

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I was afraid. Afraid of the storm. Afraid of the tumble, and the fall and the weight of the world. The world on my own; the world when you left me, distressed & upset we decided to go.

I will be the shelter in the night
The sunlight in the morning
But what about this
Constant sense of emptiness
Of only you?

I swear you're the same
As you were all those years ago,
Just a little more plain
Just a little more weathered
But just a little bit better, you say
Just a little more weathered
But you swear that you're better these days

And I remember you sayin
I will be the shelter in the night
and your sunlight in the morning
But what about this constant sense of loneliness inside my head
and why are my friends warning me?

And what about the little scars and broken parts
And hurricanes and tidal waves and oh
What about the little things that no-one knew
The polaroids and stick & poke tattoos?
God I only think of you.

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from English Bones, released October 27, 2017

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