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Adventures in Your Own Backyard
Blackwind

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Blackwind

Release date: 14th April 2012

From Adventures in Your Own Backyard

Track 2

3:54

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About This Track

'Blackwind' by Patrick Watson is an alternative track from the album 'Adventures in Your Own Backyard' (2012). The lyrics sound like a warning against chasing certainty, urging the listener to accept what comes in its wake, and to “give in” to forces beyond them. It returns to a stark emotional centre, asking who we are without the people we love and have loved, before ending on the image of being blown around by circumstance.

"Blackwind" is a single by Patrick Watson, from the album Adventures in Your Own Backyard, released 14th April 2012. The track is 3:54 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Patrick Watson.

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Patrick Watson

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Lyrics

Blackwind

Don't try too hard
To catch the winds
From where they are going
And where they have been
Don't try to outrun
What the winds are showing
Just got to give in
To where they are blowing

'Cause who are we
Who are we
Without the ones we love and have loved

Sometimes it blows you down
And weathers your face and leaves us no trace
When you find yourself far from home
Well, it's better to lose than to stand still where you don't belong

Oh, the rooftops are up in the air
While the inside of our lives are blowing around
Flying out of control

Black winds blowing us up up off the ground
Everybody hold on to the ones that you love
Black wind blowing us harder every day
Don't waste your time holding on to yesterdays

Everybody smile while the wind blows us around
Can't control the weather just got to bring what you need
Hands in the air, everybody give in to the storm

Don't try too hard
To catch the winds
From where they are going
And where they have been
Just got to give in
To where they are blowing

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Track details

From Adventures in Your Own Backyard

3:542012Single

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Album

Adventures in Your Own Backyard

15th April 2012

Track number

2

Release year

2012

1Lighthouse
4:46
2Blackwind
3:54
3Step Out for a While
4:04
4Quiet Crowd
3:57

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Patrick Watson has confirmed his new album 'Uh Oh' featuring guest vocalists including Martha Wainwright

Patrick Watson has confirmed his new album 'Uh Oh' featuring guest vocalists including Martha Wainwright

Patrick Watson's upcoming September album features guest vocalists including Martha Wainwright, following a period where he temporarily lost his voice.

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Mélanie Bélair, Mishka Stein, Patrick Watson, Robbie Kuster, Simon Angell
Lyricist: Patrick Watson