northern wind

• cat stevens'in 1967 yılında çıkartılan ve tek başına kaydettiği, toplam 19 şarkılık new masters albümünün üçüncü şarkısı.
  sözleri ve müziği cat stevens'a aittir:
  
  sözleri :
  
  there is a wind, my billy, and it's awful strong
  come for you, and anyone who's helped you along.
  
  but i want to live, live, live and let the stars shine bright
  yes, i want to live, live, live and let it on alright
  
  and when that bird sings from over that silver wall
  i don't want to fight it, billy, 'cause i want to go
  
  there's a northern wind, billy, blowin' up a southern change
  and a northern wind really makin' me feel kinda strange
  there's a northern wind, billy, blowin' up a southern change
  and a northern wind really makin' me feel kinda strange
  
  and with this gun goes everything i want to say
  not for you, but for anyone who takes it away
  let it fill his life, life, life until there's nothing left
  let it kill his wife, wife, wife until he goes to bed
  
  and when that bird sings from over that silver wall
  i don't want to fight it, billy, 'cause i want to go
  
  there's a northern wind, billy, blowin' up a southern change
  and a northern wind really makin' me feel kinda strange
  there's a northern wind, billy, blowin' up a southern change
  and a northern wind really makin' me feel kinda strange
• city and colour'a ait olan versiyonu dehşetengiz bir şekilde güzeldir. mutsuz bir masal, bir nevi ninni. gece gece beni de üzdü. sözleri de şu şekilde:
  
  you're the northern wind
  sending shivers down my spine
  you're like fallen leaves
  ın an autumn night
  
  you're the lullaby
  that's singing me to sleep
  you are the other half
  you're like a missing piece
  
  oh my love
  oh my love
  oh my love
  you don't know
  what you do to me
  
  you are all four seasons
  rolled into one
  you're like the cold december snow
  ın the warm july sun
  
  ı'm the jet black sky
  that's just before the rain
  like the mighty current
  pullin' you under the waves
  
  oh my love
  oh my love
  oh my love
  you don't know
  what you do to me
  
  ı'm the darkest hour
  just before the dawn
  and ı'm slowly sinking
  ınto the slough of despond
  
  like an old guitar
  worn out and left behind
  ı have stories left to tell
  they're of the healing kind
  
  oh my love
  oh my love
  oh my love
  ıf ı could just
  find you tonight
  ıf ı could just find you tonight
  oh my love
• bazen gece yarısı uyanır ve bakarsın ki o hala yanında değil, alırsın bu şarkıyı loopa yastığını ıslatan küçük tuzlu su damlacıklarıyla tekrar uykuya dalmaya çalışırsın.
• her seferinde mahvediyor insanı. çok özel bir şarkı.