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Suicide Weather

from Ash and Bone by Dan Weber

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    "When I was little, growing up in Western New York, we’d go on a big road trip every summer. We’d leave in darkness and I’d sit on the front bench seat of Dad’s old Pontiac Catalina, mesmerized by the green glow of the dashboard lights. By morning we’d be in Pennsylvania and tomorrow we’d be crossing into the South. I sat up front because having 3 boys in the back seat was generally a recipe for disaster. Mom would navigate the interstates with her well-worn roadmaps folded just so. Dad would drive with both feet narrating at 70 mph, giving some obscure historical fact, the types of trees we were seeing, and where the long freight trains were headed.

    When the reception was clear enough we’d listen to the local AM station, playing the 70’s hit songs by Gordon Lightfoot, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Harry Chapin, and Jim Croce, etc. There was something magical about those drives that made those songs and the stories in them come alive. I wanted to know the people in those stories and see the places in them.

    Later, as a Boy Scout, I got my first chance to go ‘West’, to Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. I poured over maps for weeks, entranced by names of seemingly exotic places like: Cheyenne, Denver and Santa Fe. In 1988 I came west again for three months. This time, as an adult, I saw the country through new eyes: Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. One weekend we borrowed a friend’s Nissan 240Z and drove down to Ensenada, Mexico. We then hitchhiked back up the California coast, sleeping on the beach and getting in as much scenery (and trouble) as possible before the summer was over.

    Then one night back home in 1989 at a local bar on Water Street, I ran into this guy named ‘Joe’ fresh out of the Army, who said he was moving to Spokane the next day. I bought him a drink to help him celebrate, then he bought me one to help me help him celebrate. Before I knew it, I found myself in the passenger seat of his 1978 primer-grey Pontiac Trans-Am, headed west again, for the third time. Stopping at my best friend’s house in Ohio, I was surprised to find him packed and ready to go. So we just made what room we could, in that little back seat.

    The trip went fast and the county’s great river’s passed beneath us: The Mississippi, Missouri, Yellowstone, Snake and Columbia. In that wide open country I searched the FM dial for the songs and stories I remembered from road trips past, and frequently we saw trains, and I wondered where they were headed. We split up in Spokane, and at 4am the two of us headed to Seattle, the ‘Emerald City’, landing there unceremoniously under a blanket of torrential grey rain on December 2nd 1989.

    That was 22 years or half a lifetime ago. What I didn’t know then was that once I left home, I could never really go back again. Seeing the country changed me and so did the people I’d met. I wanted to hear their stories and desperately wanted to know what mine was. So I kept searching and kept moving. I spent 2 years in Utah as a Park Ranger at Canyonlands National Park. I drove cross country and back at least twice and slept under the stars as much as I could. I did a lot of late night driving and I’d love finding a local DJ who somehow knew the song I needed to hear. Finally by accident or fate, I found myself in Portland, Oregon, back in the Pacific Northwest.

    I didn’t know it then, but all that time searching for who I was and where I was supposed to be, I was right there all the time. I just couldn’t see it yet.
    In the studio one afternoon, legendary banjo and slide player Tony Furtado asked me how long I’d been working on this project. I think I answered ‘43 years, 10 months, 6 days and 2 hours’. I was probably only off by an hour or two.

    So even though I’ve only just begun my musical journey, the songs and stories on ‘Ash and Bone’ have been with me for a long time. I like to think of my torn road atlas as part souvenir of the journey, and part guide to the future. I like to think that on any night, someone you meet can change your life. And I also like to think maybe you’ll hear one of these songs and feel that it’s as much your story as it is mine.

    I’d like to think I haven’t changed that much after all. I still love long drives to shows, festivals and to your homes. I still love finding that song on the radio that somehow the DJ just knew I needed to hear. I still watch for trains and wonder where they’re headed. And I still love songs like the ones I grew up with.

    I always fall in love with the stories...

    ~ Dan
    Thanksgiving 2011

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about

I’ve tried to run away from this song but sadly, every town seems to have a place like this. In Portland, Oregon, where fall, winter and spring are sometimes the same long, grey season, it’s called the Vista Bridge, aka ‘The Suicide Bridge’. Twenty long years ago, I got a call that a friend was gone...

I’ve been up on that bridge in the grip of winter a number of times since, checking the strength of my voice against the wind, sending regrets over the railing, and trying to gauge what makes one’s desperation so real and so final. I wish I had the answer but I still don’t. Some nights when I sing this, I imagine that the song ends differently...

Most gentle ‘Thanks’ to my friend Stephen. He taught me how to play guitar one Saturday morning, and in doing so returned a favor 100 times over, that either of us would drop everything to do again. We’d need at least another cord of wood to tell the story proper...

This is especially dedicated to everyone who’s been there, on either side of the railing. If you or someone you know ever needs someone to talk to, please call 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

lyrics

Suicide Weather © &  Daniel Weber 2012 Highway142Music (ASCAP)

She's got Christmas cards she's never gonna send
And a stack of bills that don't end
She never saw it coming, didn't listen to her friends
Who said you shouldn't mess with married men
And you shouldn't mess with darkness, this close to the light
You're heart might get caught in the wind

Chorus
‘Cause it feels like, Suicide Weather, on the Vista Bridge
Fog comes rollin' in
Suicide Weather, tunnel vision
You lost another friend

One summer visit was all that it took
He promised to show her around
So he took her up to the mountains
Said they'll lift you up if you get down
But you won't see the mountains, this time of year
And you won't see the sun for a while

Chorus
‘Cause it feels like, Suicide Weather, on the Vista Bridge
Fog comes rollin' in
Suicide Weather, tunnel vision
You lost another friend

Bridge
Well you’re done feeling foolish
And God knows that you’re scared
But I'm tellin' you, tomorrow's still there
And you say that ‘Love may be blind but she ain't fair’
And just one step and you're walkin' on air
And there'll be no more...

Chorus
Suicide Weather, on the Vista Bridge
Fog comes rollin' in
Suicide Weather, tunnel vision
You lost another friend...You lost another friend...Suicide Weather
You lost another friend...Suicide Weather...You lost another friend...

She's got Christmas cards she's never gonna send…

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from Ash and Bone, released February 18, 2012

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Dan Weber Richardson, Texas

Dan Weber is an Award Winning songwriter who's been described as "reminiscent of early John Prine."

In 2019, Dan was the winner of the prestigious Woody Guthrie songwriting contest and in 2021 he was named a rare 4 time finalist in the legendary Kerrville ‘New Folk’ songwriting competition.

In 2022, he released 'The Way the River Goes', his best work yet. Dan currently lives near Dallas, Texas.
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