Story Behind The Song
This song happened in a very different way. It was during a very gusty rain storm that the phrase "water in the wind" occurred to me, and I liked it. So I tried to build a song around it that would maybe even add some additional meaning. The water in the song can be considered in the first chorus to be tears, and "faith" and "beauty" refer to a newfound self-reliance that is forced upon me. But after the second verse, where the desert wind helps dry the tears, and I can re-center with some time on my own, I am ready to be renewed by the water in the later choruses. Only now the water is the refreshing experience of a new, truer, and deeper love. In these later choruses she is "faith" and she is "beauty." The main sentiment I guess is that while it can get very dark and frightening at the height of a storm, it is only by enduring the fierceness of the weather that the land, or in this case the spirit, is given new life.
Song Description
After being dumped in a pretty nonchalant way, I find my new freedom to be a well timed gift. Because while just getting over the hurt I find a truer love.
| Song Length |
2:43 |
Genre |
Folk - Alternative, Pop - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Disconcerted, Passive |
Subject |
Breaking Up, Love at First Sight |
| Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
Lyrics
Water in the Wind
By: Andrew Garcia
Verse I
My love was true
And it burned all for you.
You let me go
Refrain:
But now there?s water in the wind
A kind of virtue in your sin
Faith and beauty wander in
To this life I?m living.
Verse II
A desert wind moves through the sky
And steals the water from the air and from my eyes
And somehow with my tired soul, can sympathize
Verse III
You left with ease,
Like a summer breeze
You left me cold