The Weather Station - Tried To Tell You

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🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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The Weather Station - "Tried To Tell You" from the 2020 album Ignorance on Fat Possum.

The Weather Station (a project of Toronto-based artist Tamara Linderman) returns early next year with her fifth full-length, titled Ignorance, out February 5, 2021 via Fat Possum; today, we get a sneak peek at the new release with today's Song of the Day, "Tried To Tell You."

In a press release, Linderman tells us the track is about “reaching out to someone; a specific person, or maybe every person, who is tamping down their wildest and most passionate self in service of some self (and world?) destructive order.” The accompanying video was directed by Lindeman herself, and was set near the house where she grew up. She adds:

The video portrays a person who is beset by miracles and visions of beauty, which emanate from inside of and all around him, but rather than reacting with awe or joy, he reacts with annoyance, indifference, and mistrust. We are taught not to see the natural world that we still live in, preferring instead to dwell on the artificial, which is so often a poor substitute for the vibrant real. Flowers really do rise up from mud, and many of us are full of treasures and beauty, but we often discount these things or throw them away.

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0:00.0	The You're afraid of getting late.
0:15.0	You're afraid of yourself.
0:20.0	Afraid that you might call her that you could not help yourself.
0:30.0	And what could I say?
0:37.0	Lived in you all day. I watched her in your eyes and passed across your face.
0:45.0	The wind and the water I try to tell you
0:52.0	that is the way that you want to do.
0:55.0	I try to do.
1:00.0	You are so afraid to try and pull apart the endless rain.
1:11.0	You were so afraid. The endless rain you thought of as your heart
1:17.0	of blood on your hands from the river inside you try to deny it.
1:29.0	You never felt the tide of the moon pulling closer.
1:35.0	I try to tell you.
1:40.0	That is the way that you want to ever.
1:42.0	I try to do. That is the way that you want her.
1:43.0	I try to do.
1:47.0	Like the way to the water
1:49.0	I do it in the water.
1:50.0	I will not help your night feel to tell itself it was not real and all the fools believe.
2:08.0	This is what the songs are for. This is the dirt beneath the floor.
2:12.0	I cannot say. beneath the floor.
2:13.0	I cannot sell you on,
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