Zac Brown Band – Colder Weather

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  Memory:Reminds me of when I was moving from my hometown to upstate. It has been constant freezing cold weather and snow more than 1/2 the year. Before I left, I met a girl that meant the world to me. (only time I felt this way) She was upset that I was leaving because she cared about me. I was at a small get-together with her and her family, and ended up leaving because I had other obligations before I left. She watched me leave through the window.
  
  She kept on telling me to stay, but I left for school and than the military. She didn't understand why I couldn't choose a different path and thought it was just BS.
  
  Once I was up here, there was a girl that looked very similar to the girl I left in one of my classes. Made me think of her every day for 3-4 months that I was in class with her.
  
  Speaking on and off, fighting emotions, trying to not to keep in touch. I told her that when it was all said and done things could work out and we could be together.
  
  After a while, we stopped speaking, kept on thinking of her though. It was torture. Kept on saying "one day soon, we'll be together". Hoping it would work out.
  
  She ended up with another guy _-_.
  
  Song came out after it was all said and done, dam it hit me like a ton of bricks. From the time that this song came out, all my buddies labeled it my song. (friggen @holes LOL). But yea, to this day still makes me thing of that time in my life.

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  My Interpretation:It's about a guy in love with a girl ,he knows he loves her but just can't commit. Being stuck in colder weather is a metaphor for a BS excuse.

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  General Comment:I think it is talking about a man that works out of town or a ways away. Like my man. Maybe an oil field worker. And somebody below me asked what "she'd take colorado if he'd take her with him". I think it means she'd go with him to work or whatnot if he'd take her. It's such a good song and really hits home with me. In my situation, it reminds me of my man and how he has to leave for work so often, and how badly I miss him when he has to go. Wishing life was different and that we didn't have to spend so much time away from each other. yadda yadda lol.

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  Song Meaning:A lot of interesting interpretations! Instead of trying to figure out the writers meaning I will just say how this song hit me like a ton of bricks.
  
  I was moving from FL to NJ this past February going from sunny Florida to well, colder weather!! I was driving all alone through the Carolinas and this song came on the radio. I NEVER listen to country music but that's pretty much all that's on the radio down south. When I heard this song for the first time it blew me away. I immediately grabbed my iPhone and used the Shazam app to figure out the song name/artist then conected my phone to the AUX in my car and probably played the song over and over about 15 times.
  
  Without getting too indepth and boring you with my personal life, I too have a gypsy soul to blame. Since high school when I graduated and went straight into the Marines I have constantly been on the move living all over the globe and leaving more than a few loves behind. For me this song simply summed up many years of my life and a lot of pain from moving about which caused hard break ups.
  
  Other than stirring up a lot of old memories it also speaks to me as a motorcycle rider. I have a true passion for riding and lyrics like "at a truck stop Diner just outside of Lincoln" and "it's a winding road" the "taillights" and many more just bring back the joy of leaving all your worries behind and just being out on the open road, riding to nowhere, stopping in truck stop diners for a hot cup of coffee to take the chill off.. I have given that lifestyle up and am now settled down, married, and going to be a daddy soon.. I wouldn't trade all that for anything but hearing this song conjures a flood of emotions in me it is hard to explain.
  
  So there you have it.. from someone who never listed to country music a day in his life, this is my newfound favorite song. Ok enough typing, time to listen to it again :-)
  
  -TM III

  Flagged MrDoobersonon March 13, 2012   Link

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    Thank you for sharing your story. I enjoy these personal interpretations so much more than reading people's attempting to decipher the songwriter's intentions. As an artist, the goal is to move people and create an emotional reaction. The greatest works of art, whether it is music, film, visual, or literature, are the ones that create a personal reaction. Everyone is unique and each person will have their own interpretation. Thank you for yours.

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  General Comment:im sure there are many ways to inturpet this song, but the way that stays with me is hes
  in a bad place in his life (stuck in colder weather) along with all the commintment issues
  he has with relationships. like when she says "you got a gypsy soul to blame, and you were born
  for leavin'" but even with all that, he still finds himself coming back to her. its his true love
  and this is him expressing it for the first time... "you know its you that keeps me coming back"
  ..thats just what i think :)

  Flagged lovedeeemusicon December 19, 2011   Link

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    I like your interpretation.

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  General Comment:im sure there are many ways to inturpet this song, but the way that stays with me is hes
  in a bad place in his life (stuck in colder weather) along with all the commintment issues
  he has with relationships. like when she says "you got a gypsy soul to blame, and you were born
  for leavin'" but even with all that, he still finds himself coming back to her. its his true love
  and this is him expressing it for the first time... "you know its you that keeps me coming back"
  ..thats just what i think :)

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  General Comment:After doing a lot of research and listening to the song over and over again the ending is what really ties everything together. I think that the song is about a guy who lost his girlfriend or wife. Colder weather refers to him being to Colorado while she is in heaven. He talks to her in her prayers and tells her that he is going to be with her soon, but he is still on earth hince which he is a "rambling man".

  Flagged vtathlete1on October 27, 2011   Link

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    I love that perspective. I hafta be honest I really don't like this band,but I really like this song. Thanx for your p.o.v.

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  General Comment:I guy in Castle Rock Colorado claims his girlfriend is close with Zac Brown and the song was written about him when he moved to Colorado. Would you like his phone number to confirm?

  Flagged RealCapitalon September 13, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:Have you heard the song by Tim McGraw Everywhere, I think this is just another adaptation of that same story.
  
  A woman is holding on to her man, but knows he's going to leave. She says she'd leave her home to be with him and he goes on without her. He loves her, but is restless. One place for too long makes him insane, but he always comes back to that one girl. Finally she gets fed up and tells him no more. So he is left with the ghost of her memory, not her actual ghost.
  
  I do not think it's about a trucker as so many people keep saying. He's just a guy that isn't ready to settle down (for whatever reason) so he breaks the girls heart that he truly loves.

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  Song Meaning:Songfacts: You can leave comments about the song at the bottom of the page.
  
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  This Country-Pop tune is the second single from Zac Brown Band's 2010 album, You Get What You Give. The song was written by lead singer Zac Brown, his usual songwriting partner Wyatt Durrette, the band's keyboardist and guitarist Coy Bowles and Georgia singer-songwriter Levi Lowrey, who has performed as supporting act for the band and featured on many their projects.The song tells the tale of a traveling musician who heads back on the road chasing his dreams. In doing so he leaves behind the woman who loves him. Later on, he starts having second thoughts and returns to her but it isn't long before the urge to roam overtakes him again. ZBB fiddle player Jimmy De Martini told The Orange County Register: "It's more of a ballad, but it gets really big towards the end. It's about the life that we live now — leaving loved ones to be gone on the road, and (how) some people have trouble holding on to relationships and some people miss being home. It kind of goes through what a musician and traveling person goes through. It's one of my favorites."Wyatt Durrette told the story behind the song in an interview with The Boot: "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, Wisconsin 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."

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    This is probably one of the few songs on nowadays that is the perfect example of what country music was and should be.
    
    Colder Weather reminds me of the kind of songs I grew up listening to and brings back everything.

    Flag MeganLovesMusicForeveron August 19, 2011  

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