SPRING MIND

"Everywhere you go / You always take the weather with you" sang Crowded House in 1992, and you might be familiar with the song even if 1992 is ancient history to you, because it's also on the soundtrack of the movie Everest, which only came out in 2015 (remember the party, the night before they start climbing? It's that song. Oh, and since you're googling old music anyway, you might want to check out "Don't Dream It's Over", by the same band too - fantastic, isn't it?)... The Internet doesn't seem quite sure about the meaning of "taking the weather with you": Wikipedia says the song is about "the effect a person has on their surroundings by the type of person they are, whether it be good or bad". (To which I can only say "I think I know what you mean, but…Huh?")... To me, "Weather with You" talks about our emotional weather, our internal environment, and how that colours all our experiences and affects all our actions. It explains to me why, over the course of my own life, I have..