Crowded House frontman Neil Finn told the story of the song, which he wrote with his brother/bandmate Tim Finn, to Performing Musician: "Tim had the first line. We started doing the strum that you hear at the beginning of the song, I came up with the little guitar figure, and the rest of the song fell from there. We were trying to imagine a time and a place, and the line 'Walking 'round the room singing 'Stormy Weather'' helped us get into some atmosphere of somebody troubled who is always on their own in a room. We were trying to find lines that described the scene, like the 'small boat made of china,' and that feeling of ennui or languishing that permeates the song. Ultimately, the theme of the song is, of course, that you are creating your own weather, you are making your own environment, always."
The opening lines place Neil Finn at a specific address: Walking 'round the room singing "Stormy Weather" At 57 Mount Pleasant Street Finn explained that his sister lived on Mount Pleasant Road in Auckland, but not at #57 - he changed it to sound more musical. He explained on his website: "It was just a good contrast to the theme of the song for it to be called Mount Pleasant Street because really it was about a guy who's totally wrapped up in melancholia standing in his lounge room feeling lost."
"Weather With You" did surprisingly well in the UK, where it climbed to #7, giving Crowded House their only Top 10 in that territory.
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