Zac Brown Band: Colder Weather Meaning
Colder Weather Lyrics
Closes the door before the winter lets the cold in,
And wonders if her love is strong enough to make him stay,
She's answered by the tail lights
Shining through the window pane
[Chorus:]
He...
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If anyone read the website the boot, the band was on their and said that it was written about a girl one of them was seeing and they were having a hard time being together because he was on the road and she wanted him to settle down. Then there was a snow storm one night when he was supposed to see her. This is from the band. No mention of a drug addicted brother or the military, though it can interpreted that way, which is part of the beauty of country music.
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It's about a man with a Drug addiction! He really wants to be with her and stay with her, But he is so busy with the drugs, looking buying ect. that he says over and over, what all addicts say, I'll stop tommarrow...i'll do it next time, or this is my last hit.
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There was a girl I was seeing, who lived in Kansas City. We really liked each other, but geography and timing just wasn't working for us. She was getting pretty frustrated with the whole thing and wanted me to slow down, as far as traveling so much and all those things. I wasn't willing to do that because we were just getting started, and I'm chasing my dreams.
I was going to see her. We were in Green Bay, Wisc. playing a show with Little Big Town, and it was pouring down snow. We were supposed to go to Kansas City the next day for some radio thing, but the radio people canceled. Instead, we just went on to wherever we were going next. I had to call her and tell her that I wasn't going to make it. She was not a happy camper. She let me have it. I hung up the phone, walked on the bus and wrote the chorus and the melody to the chorus. -
Colder weather is a miserable loveless marriage and he fell in love a new woman
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The Boot sat down with accomplished songwriter, Wyatt Durrette, to discuss the Zac Brown Band's latest single, 'Colder Weather.' Wyatt started the song, but it soon turned into a group collaboration with ZBB members Zac Brown and Coy Bowles, as well as Southern Ground Records artist Levi Lowrey.
There was a girl I was seeing, who lived in Kansas City. We really liked each other, but geography and timing just wasn't working for us. She was getting pretty frustrated with the whole thing and wanted me to slow down, as far as traveling so much and all those things. I wasn't willing to do that because we were just getting started, and I'm chasing my dreams.
I was going to see her. We were in Green Bay, Wisc. playing a show with Little Big Town, and it was pouring down snow. We were supposed to go to Kansas City the next day for some radio thing, but the radio people canceled. Instead, we just went on to wherever we were going next. I had to call her and tell her that I wasn't going to make it. She was not a happy camper. She let me have it. I hung up the phone, walked on the bus and wrote the chorus and the melody to the chorus.
Me and Zac worked on the first chorus together. I knew the song was special. You can just tell as a writer when you've written something that has a chance to be big or special. I knew that one was.
I sat on the song for six months after that. I did what I always do: sing it to the guys and say, "What do you think of this?" And they'll go, "Oh yeah, that's great!"
Levi Lowrey is one of the best artists I know. He's a poet. I felt like this song needed the way he wrote, so I invited Levi over to my house one night and we wrote the rest of the verses. It turned out great. It was so weird because that same night, Coy, our guitar player, stopped by. He was just coming by my house to say hey. He didn't know we were writing. He sat down and was listening to us write the verses, and he said, "How about a bridge?" He read one to us, and we were like, "Hell yeah! That's perfect!" [laughs] So we stuck that in there, and I brought all that to Zac. Zac and I finished writing the alternate chorus in the end.
That one's special to all of us. It holds a spot because of what we do and being away and all those things. For those guys, I think that song rings on missing their family. That's the beauty of art: everybody has their own take on what the song can mean. As for me, it's a story of impossible love where geography or timing gets in the way of it, and it's just not possible. -
About a guy in a band, traveling the northern states in the winter time and his girl in a warmer southern place not understanding why he cant get to her to see her
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Simple. It's about a traveling musician and his girlfriend back home.
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My interpretation is that there is a married man that has a girlfriend as well an he keeps coming back to her. "I'm stuck in colder weather" to me means that his homelife is bad and he can't see the girlfriend at the moment but "maybe tomorrow will be better". Just my interpretation of it ;)
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Obviously his wife died and her ghost thinks shes leaving him but hes moving on.
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I think he tries to return and he dies in the snow storm and she is depressed about him not coming back not knowing he has already died that she sets the house on fire, per the video, and she also dies and they meet again in the end.
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i just love the song. I think it's about life. Love and lost........
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It is about a girl that Zac was seeing and the long distance relationship, he couldn't visit when he wanted because of weather complications and because he was putting his career first.
My Proof: An Interview With The Band...
"The Boot sat down with accomplished songwriter, Wyatt Durrette, to discuss the Zac Brown Band's latest single, 'Colder Weather.' Wyatt started the song, but it soon turned into a group collaboration with ZBB members Zac Brown and Coy Bowles, as well as Southern Ground Records artist Levi Lowrey.
There was a girl I was seeing, who lived in Kansas City. We really liked each other, but geography and timing just wasn't working for us. She was getting pretty frustrated with the whole thing and wanted me to slow down, as far as traveling so much and all those things. I wasn't willing to do that because we were just getting started, and I'm chasing my dreams.
I was going to see her. We were in Green Bay, Wisc. playing a show with Little Big Town, and it was pouring down snow. We were supposed to go to Kansas City the next day for some radio thing, but the radio people canceled. Instead, we just went on to wherever we were going next. I had to call her and tell her that I wasn't going to make it. She was not a happy camper. She let me have it. I hung up the phone, walked on the bus and wrote the chorus and the melody to the chorus.
Me and Zac worked on the first chorus together. I knew the song was special. You can just tell as a writer when you've written something that has a chance to be big or special. I knew that one was.
I sat on the song for six months after that. I did what I always do: sing it to the guys and say, "What do you think of this?" And they'll go, "Oh yeah, that's great!"
Levi Lowrey is one of the best artists I know. He's a poet. I felt like this song needed the way he wrote, so I invited Levi over to my house one night and we wrote the rest of the verses. It turned out great. It was so weird because that same night, Coy, our guitar player, stopped by. He was just coming by my house to say hey. He didn't know we were writing. He sat down and was listening to us write the verses, and he said, "How about a bridge?" He read one to us, and we were like, "Hell yeah! That's perfect!" [laughs] So we stuck that in there, and I brought all that to Zac. Zac and I finished writing the alternate chorus in the end.
That one's special to all of us. It holds a spot because of what we do and being away and all those things. For those guys, I think that song rings on missing their family. That's the beauty of art: everybody has their own take on what the song can mean. As for me, it's a story of impossible love where geography or timing gets in the way of it, and it's just not possible."
http://www.theboot.com/2011/03/01/zac-brown-band-colder-weather-lyrics/ -
to be honest i think its about a man who is not in the position in life to fall in love, example a soldier in love but needs to follow his duty. So he leaves but still wishes to be with her and knows one day down the road he'll be with her.
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I think it means a lot of things. Its about a guy who has some demons that keep him from committing to anyone. I don't think the term "colder weather" literally means temperature. Its emotional. He leaves the things he loves because he can't commit.
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Zac Brown's brother is addicted to Meth, which is known as "ice," hence the reference to colder weather. Recently, his long time girlfriend left him because she couldn't compete with his addiction any longer.
She wants him to choose her over his addiction - "She'd trade Colorado if he'd take her with him"
However, he once again chooses the drug over her - "She's answered by the taillights shinning through the window pane."
Of course he wants to get over his addiction and be with her but can't that easily - "I want to see you again, but I'm stuck in colder weather. Maybe tomorrow will be better, can I call you then?"
It ends with him not being able to shake his addiction, but being hopeful that "they'll soon be together."
Excellent song that depicts the struggles of addiction.
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