IMPACT: The song, one of S&G's fastest and hardest-driving, was covered successfully by the all-female New Wave band The Bangles.Dan Graziano is an award winning, nationally exhibited artist whose paintings capture the hidden beauty found in the unexpected places and fleeting moments of everyday life.
HAZY SHADE OF WINTER PATCH
And now- oh just look- "there's a patch of snow on the ground." Winter isn't on its way- it's arrived! Time's a-wastin'. In the time it took to even think of all this, the weather has gotten even colder and time has gotten even shorter.īefore, there were dead leaves and a hazy sky. Sadly, there is no time to learn this lesson. He did not hear the Salvation Army band, and now instead of being with- and helping- other people, he is poring over things he himself has written but has not even shared. Perhaps this is all to say that we make ourselves busier than we actually are, that, as John Lennon so nicely put it: "Life is what happens when you are making other plans." The speaker admits that he is just as guilty for ignoring relationships as he would blame his friend for being. After all, he was busy "looking over manuscripts/ Of unpublished rhyme" while having a drink. but this other person should stop whatever it is he or she is doing and make time for him! "Yeah, friend, I'm here, when you get around to me, I'm just sayin'."īut then, right away, he is apologizing- or rationalizing- for himself having forgotten something or someone. Here is he saying that he must make use of the precious few moments he has left, what with "winter" coming. Then the song snaps into a discussion about a relationship and turns sarcastic: "Won't you stop and remember me/ At any convenient time?" "Weaving time in a tapestry," seems to continue the poetic nature of the previous thought. The next few lines seem to belong to another song. Just when the speaker seems to have snapped himself out of his funk with this realization, there is a break. Then this odd bit o "chicken-and-egg" philosophizing: "Seasons change with the scenery." Isn't it more true to say that "scenery changes with the seasons"? After all, it's either nice or bleak out because of what season it is, not the other way around.īut then, what is a "season"? Who determines what "spring" or "winter" is- aren't these not just human, semantic labels for a natural events with no set start or end? It's the scenery that changes, with or without us, and we have to adjust our outlook. Again, the imagery is taken not from platitudes, but from nature: "Look around, the grass is high/ The fields are ripe, it's the springtime of my life." What am I worried about? I'm young and have plenty of time! if one buys into it, and "pretends" that there is enough time to rebuild hope.īut next comes a truer note of hope. The speaker admits such advice is only useful. Then the song seems to be quoting some helpful adviser, offering encouragement straight off of the "Hang in there!" poster with a cat dangling from a branch. I should go, and bring my cup to help collect donations from passers-by." After all, time is passing- the leaves are still brown, the sky is still wintry. Then another thought comes in: "What about what else is going on in the world? There's a band playing to raise money for the poor helped by the Salvation Army.
HAZY SHADE OF WINTER SERIES
(The imagery here recalls that of one of Simon's earliest songs: "The leaves that are green turn to brown." That song, too, is out the inevitability of the passage of time and the nature is life as a series of partings: "Hello. autumn is well underway, and the sky predicts "winter" soon. Is he wrong to feel that he has lost valuable time, not much of which is left? After all, the very weather agrees- the leaves on the trees are dead, the sky is overcast. I was so hard to please." Also, he spent so much time choosing, he lost the time to actuate his choices.
It continues, still in past tense, "I looked around.
HAZY SHADE OF WINTER TV
"What's become of me," uses the past tense the words sound like a TV special on "Whatever happened to" some child stars. It starts by worrying about time, repeating the word "time" like it is ticking away. or is "winter" hard by? The song as a whole seems to argue for the latter conclusion. The main question is: What state of development has the speaker reached- is it "the springtime of life". The music itself lurches between the fast lines that take up most of the song and slower interludes that seem to want to take a look around and enjoy the "scenery," only to succumb to the song's driving urgency. This song seems to be a struggle to determine what how much productive time the speaker has left.
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