'I’m on fire today, Ain’t no water here to calm or even put me out.' (Me saying I'm alright.I've let go of the past.and he's going to find a way to cross and be clean just as I'm going to find a way to cross the next bridge and get to a more secure future without him somehow.) 'I’m alright today, You gonna find a way to cross and you gonna get there.' So - when I hear the lyrics.here's what this song means to me: My pain and heartache is and always has been completely 's not self-medicated at all.so I feel the consequences of his decisions way more than he ever will. It amazes me every day how someone like me who never tried drugs or was addicted to anything in my life can be left to suffer more than the addict themselves. My life right now is a daily struggle just living day to day - and I fear homelessness every day. Everything was pretty much a downward spiral and all was lost. For two years, I went into co-dependency mode constantly trying to 'fix' him and get 'our' life back - but I was dragged right down with him. I was in a 10 year relationship with a man who I had a GREAT life with.successful in our relationship, successful in business, successful in got addicted to drugs and everything fell apart. I heard this song and it hits home with me. Thus the line about 'you build walls around your heart to try to lock it in.' Whoever the subject of the song is, their partner sees their improvement but also worries about their nature and the possibility of a return to addiction, ergo 'you worry me'. It is about the struggle for recovery you might 'feel fine today', but you may also feel 'crazy or the wind might blow down.' Though 'you are on the mend' and 'you gonna find a way to cross and you gonna get there', you have to realize the truth of addiction: there is a void in your heart you are trying to fill with a substance. It could be how he feels about her, or conversely he could be describing how she feels about him. I believe this song is about a couple, he and the woman he loves. He also makes allusions specifically to the negative consequences of alcohol and addiction in other songs, such as 'S.O.B.' and 'Wasting Time'. Rateliff has struggled with an addiction to alcohol in his life. To 'dry up' is obviously a reference to an alcoholic going on the wagon. You’d have to think his mama would be proud.The most revealing lyric is in the chorus: 'I'm going to leave it all out there to dry up'.

YetĮven when he overshoots, Rateliff’s restless throwback sound feels like it’s The dusky “Babe I Know,” he sounds more fatigued than uplifted.

Suppleness of classic soul singers when he taps into his inner Sam Cooke on “While I needed you, it was never a choice of mine,” he offers in the jubilant-sounding “Be There.” Rateliff really hits emotional pay dirt in “Hey Mama,” in which a mother chastises her son for feeling sorry for himself: “You ain’t run far enough to say my legs have failed.” While not strictly autobiographical, the song hints at Rateliff’s own tragic backstory (his father was killed in a car accident when Nathaniel was in his early teens), sounding convincingly pained as the Night Sweats horns surge behind him.Ĭan be guilty of overwriting, as in the jumble of raging-wildfire images thatĭrag down “Still Out There Running.” His husky voice can lack the A big Leonard Cohen fan, he sprinkles Cohenesque lines throughout the album. Rateliff remains a brooding party animal. Meanwhile, the cautiously optimistic “You Worry Me” shows the band is interested in more than just simulations of R&B past, burnishing modern guitar rumble with light electronics. Rooted in a grinding sax and a caffeinated groove, “Intro” recalls interracial Sixties soul band the Electric Flag. Reflecting the Night Sweats’ relentless touring since their breakthrough, tracks like the largely instrumental shuffle “Shoe Boot” are punchier than anything on their debut, jacked up by swelling organs and the band’s plump horn section. Unsurprisingly, Rateliff doubles down on roadhouse retro for Tearing at the Seams, his second album with the Night Sweats, which arrives after a quickie EP and a live album. 'You Ripped My Heart Out': Jury Hears Jail Phone Call Between 'Doomsday Mom' and Surviving Son

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