Let’s talk about how you wrote ‘The Weather’.
Joe Ryan: We had Nick write most of the lyrics for the songs, bar two maybe, so that we had more of a theme to it. The theme, you could say, is like based around Perth.
But we weren’t going into it thinking: ‘We’re making a Perth album’. We were trying...
[Verse 1: Nicholas Allbrook]
He sold out both his eyes
Yet sees her face
Her thighs in lace
Oh, why such waste?
[Verse 2: Nicholas Allbrook]
Ghosts are only negative space
Ancestors, no blood
No place, no mark
Just voices in the dark
[Chorus: Jay Watson]
The floor is covered in champagne
The leather and the blood, and all the sudden rain
Man, you, you should've seen those cops baptise
The worst-case scenario survival game
[Verse 3: Nicholas Allbrook]
He sold out both his eyes
Yet sees her face
Her thighs in lace
Oh, why such waste?
[Chorus: Jay Watson]
The floor is covered in champagne
The leather and the blood, and all the sudden rain
And man, you should've seen those cops baptise
The worst-case scenario survival game
The Weather was written by Nicholas Allbrook & Jay Watson.
The Weather was produced by Kevin Parker.
Pond released The Weather on Thu Apr 06 2017.