Black Wind (song)

PATRICK WATSON SONG
Name	Black Wind
Album/single	None, rumoured LP5
Length	5.18 (2007 version), ± 4.43 (2011 version)
Alternative titles	-
First live performance	Somewhere in 2007 (2007 version), 24th March 2011 (2011 version)
Latest live performance	Unknown (2007 version), Setlist regular (2011 version)

[edit] Additional information

One of the older songs of the band. It was never released, but it has been played live during the first months of January, some time before the release of Close to Paradise, on which it did not end up. In 2011, a fully revived version of this song was played live again. There's almost no resemblance to the 2007 version. The lyrics are very different. Only a subtle version of the 2007 riff can be heard, speed up, in the 2011 version. It is one of the songs that will probably feature on the band's next album. It is the only song to have two significant different versions.

[edit] Lyrics

These lyrics are incomplete and possibly inaccurate, as they are taken from live versions of this song.

2007 version

Black Wind is blowing
Through me now
And I'm still falling
And I try
To keep my head high
But it burns now
Well I fire
??????

Black wind's blowing
Won't you fill my cells and take me home
I keep scratching all of you so far from our homes
I will find some sort of ????

There ????
And he's hiding in my window
Save me for another day
Hidden on the ground would you wanna ??? don't know
Wash and blow me all away
All the way takes me home

Black wind's blowing
Fill my cells and take me home
I keep scratching the tissue ???

And I try now
To hold up
Black Wind is falling

There ????
And he's hiding in my windows
Hold me for another day
????
And he's hiding in my windows
Holde me for another day

2011 version

Don't try too hard
To catch the winds
Where they are going
Where they have been

Don't try to outrun
With the winds on our shoulders
Just start to give in
To where they are going
Toooooo
Woohooo
If I
???
Will love
And I fall

Try it'll pull you down
It'll weather your face and leaves us no trace
You can find yourself far from home
But it's better to loose than to stand still
You don't blow away
Well you took so long being (angry?)
Well the inside of our lives blowing around violent and out of control

Black Wind's blowing us up above the ground 
Everybody hold that one in the arms that you love
Black Wind's blowing us harder every day
Don't waste your time moving on with yesterday
Everybody smile when the wind blows us away
Hands in the air everybody give in to the storm
Can't control the weather just gotta bring what you need

Don't try too hard
To catch the winds
Where they are going
Where they have been
Tooooooo
Woohooo
??????
??????

[edit] Recordings

• Concertgebouw Amsterdam, 2011 [ watch ] Pro-shot, video