The Head and the Heart - Virginia (Wind in the Night)
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🗓️ 21 February 2022
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Summary
The Head and the Heart - "Virginia (Wind in the Night)" from the 2022 album Every Shade of Blue on Warner.
Beloved local band The Head and the Heart return this spring with their fifth full-length, Every Shade of Blue, recorded at Studio Litho here in Seattle, where they made their first two albums back in 2011 and 2013. “It was almost like coming back home,” guitarist/vocalist Jonathan Russell told Consequence of Sound. “We used the same engineer, Shawn Simmons. There was this balance of old and new, being familiar with the studio but bringing somebody much newer in his relationship with us.”
On today's Song of the Day, Russell pays tribute to his home state. "Being from Virginia, for me this song represents a long and winding relationship to place – a place that is grounding. I’m often drawing on my life through symbolism as a way into someone else’s psyche,” he said via a press statement. “It’s part of my search for a deeper connection without having to compare our experiences directly. There is a reason this song has two titles. One is literal and one is symbolic. Not everyone is from Virginia, I know that. But I bet you have walked home and heard the wind in the night.”
The Head and the Heart perform two nights – August 12th and 13th – at Marymoor Park.
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| 0:00.0 | But you don't sound like she used to, walking lonely, smoking my lungs and we're skippin' them in my veins. |
| 0:18.0 | I remember one piece overgiven, I'm on it by a ghost. |
| 0:25.0 | You and my past colliding, I can never go home. |
| 0:31.0 | When in the night, when in the night. |
| 0:39.0 | Thought that I heard you laughing, wasn't I chillin' my dialet? |
| 0:46.0 | But you don't sound like she used to, but you don't feel like she used to, |
| 0:53.0 | but I can feel her bein' for me baby. |
| 0:57.0 | I know her heart's bein' for me baby, but you don't sound like she used to, |
| 1:03.0 | but you don't feel like she used to, but I can feel her bein' for me baby. |
| 1:11.0 | I know her heart's bein' for me, yeah. |
| 1:14.0 | I've traveled all over in my life, but nothing slowed me down. |
| 1:21.0 | This place that I used to love with is just another town. |
| 1:27.0 | When in the night, the when in the night. |
| 1:35.0 | Remember I caught you dancing alone in my first apartment. |
| 1:42.0 | But you don't sound like she used to, but you don't feel like she used to, |
| 1:49.0 | but I can feel her bein' for me baby. |
| 1:53.0 | I know her heart's bein' for me baby, but you don't sound like she used to, |
| 2:00.0 | but you don't feel like she used to, but I can feel her bein' for me baby. |
| 2:07.0 | I know her heart's bein' for me, yeah. |
| 2:19.0 | I know her heart's bein' for me baby, but you don't sound like she used to, |
| 2:28.0 | but you don't feel like she used to, but I can feel her bein' for me baby. |
| 2:36.0 | I love her heart's bein' for me, yeah. |
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