Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: psych-rock
Song Meaning of “Winter Sun – 2023 Remaster” by Windhand
Winter Sun – 2023 Remaster paints a vivid and melancholic picture of a lost love and the consequences of walking away. Through the lens of nature, we experience a sense of dread and hopelessness as the protagonist watches their beloved slip away. As ‘snow falls like stones on the stones of peace’, the lines blurring between reality and fantasy, a perpetually grey sky dampens the day and the winter sun never rises. The song is filled with imagery of grief and subtle imagery of guilt for leaving, ‘I should have been the one to breathe you through’.
We experience sadness and a renewed respect for the beautiful moments in life as the protagonist reflects on the love that once was and that can never be again. But while the cold winter settles in, a hint of hope remains in the air as the sun hides and waits, a reminder that the warmth of summer will come again one day.