Me and the Wind

(Partridge)

Mummer

Recordings XTCfans interview with Andy Partridge Art Lyrics Chords and Tablature

Recordings

1. Album version, 4'18.
   Released on Mummer.

2. Demo version.
   Released in September 2004 on Fuzzy Warbles Volume Five in the U.K.

   Andy: “I bought my (ex) wife a flute and I was going to use it. Lots of you seem to think that this song is about Terry Chambers leaving XTC. I can see your logic. Words like ‘snare’, ‘stool’, ‘imprisoned in your drumbeat’ etc. Any connection is purely unconscious from my end, I was simply looking for ways to describe breaking free from a restrictive relationship. Do you know, you put a bloody good case for it though. Now you've got me doubting my own intentions.”

Art

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Lyrics

Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
Me and the wind are pulling kites and pushing tress
Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
Me and the wind are feeling freer than air should ever be
Should ever be should ever be should ever

And when you lured me into your syrup
All I could think of was what a lovely way
for me to go
I never really realised that

Just like the struggling summer flies that
I was drowning no matter how sweet or how slow

Have I been such a fool
Have I been sitting on your stool
While you cracked the whip
While you cracked the whip

Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
Me and the wind are pulling kites and pushing tress
Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
Me and the wind are feeling freer than air should ever be
Should ever be should ever be should ever

I danced imprisoned in your drumbeat
Your tune of spring had me whirling like a mad march
Merry hare
It never really came to mind that
just as the huntress wires bind that
The strings of your instrument were strangling me
Inside their snare

Have I been such a fool
Have I been sitting on your stool
While you held the hoop
While you held the hoop

Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways
Freed from a love more like murder
I should be singing but in liberation
Feel like a ship with no rudder

Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
Have I been such a fool
Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
Have I been such a fool
Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
Have I been such a fool
Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
Have I been such a fool

© 1983 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.

Chords and Tablature

Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:21:55 -0400
From: Kevin Brunkhorst <KB305 (at) aol dot com>
Subject: here's Mummer, plus some B-sides
Message-ID: <960726182155_246529032 (at) emout08 dot mail dot aol dot com>

Get your guitar, cue up the CD.
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Me and the Wind

Em9
Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
Em9                                   (add b5)
Me and the wind are pulling kites and pushing tress
Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
Me and the wind are feeling freer than air should ever be
Should ever be should ever be should ever

F7#9
And when you lured me into your syrup
All I could think of was what a lovely way for me to go
I never really realised that

Just like the struggling summer flies that
I was drowning no matter how sweet or how slow

 Bb    F7          Bb      F7
Have I been such a fool
Bb     F7           Bb        F7
Have I been sitting on your stool
          Abmaj7#11 (4x5533)             A13 (5x345x) Am13 (5x335x)
While you              cracked the whip
While you cracked the whip

I danced imprisoned in your drumbeat
Your tune of spring had me whirling like a mad march
Merry hare
It never really came to mind that

The strings of your instrument were strangling me
Inside their snare

Have I been such a fool
Have I been sitting on your stool
While you held the hoop
While you held the hoop

A            E7          A           E7
Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways
A            E7             A         E7
Freed from a love more like murder
A           E7          A       E7
I should be singing but in liberation
A           E7           F#maj7
Feel like a ship with no rudder

Em9
Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
B      F#m7        Em9
Have I been such a fool    etc.

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