This song is about a predilection for adversity over comfort, disruption over stagnation, wildness over numbness. Standing out in the rain. There is a fierceness to go with the gentle arrangement. First written in 1995 as the title track to a full-length home-recorded album. I rented a four-track in Calgary for the weekend on a Friday, learnt it and recorded over the weekend. True to the title of the album, a winter storm blew in. It stopped snowing after I had poured out 11 songs. I was 19, heart-broken, free and alone. I was staying in Calgary waiting to start the ski season as a liftee/ski bum at Lake Louise, and a pretty bold extreme skier (hence the version of the Canadian dream). This year, I rearranged the song for a more soul groove. Most of the songs on that first album are lost unfortunately, along with the recording. Most needed rehabilitation too, and I'm trying to recover some of them.
Storm Warning
Copyright 1995/2009
Arif Jinha
Lyrics
I like the wind and snow on a cold winter's day.
You see me standing outside in the rain.
This pleasant sunshine does nothing for me.
Listening for the storm warning on my radio...
Chorus
....o...o
Can't you see, can't you see
what's become of me
Verse
Now that we're ok, and everything's fine.
Begin to get bored, out of my mind.
Won't somebody come disrupt my life.
I think I need to get into fights.
Chorus II
o...o...o
You'll never know, you'll never know
How much I loved you
Verse
So keep me away from those comfort zones
don't like the sterile beauty of your suburban home
Got my own version of the Canadian dream
Gonna life my life, to the extreme
Chorus
o...o...o
Can't you see, can't you see
what's become of me
