A sad song written looking through a window
“Sunny Weather,” from singer-songwriter Whoeverthatis, is a bittersweet, tender ballad about a man waking up from a coma., and being cared for in his helpless state.
“I will never forget the moment when I reopened my eyes
You were sitting there beside me and the room was way too bright
Still I could see you
You and your smile.
It was something I could focus on
While being utterly surprised.
And I didn’t know where I was
Still you made me feel so safe
When I wanted to get up and jump around
But you told me to wait
Oh I could hardly move my arms and legs
They told me I have slept
For the last two years and somehow lately I got better.
And I sat with sunny weather
But I was trapped in this white room
And I just wanted to get out
and you kept saying I know but we’ll get there.
and I hated you so much,
but I loved your looks
at the same time.”
This song contains a nice, nuanced contradiction between gratitude and frustration, between feelings of liberation and feelings of imprisonment. The story is poetically ambiguous, and the narrator’s relationship to his caregiver is no exception…possibly being his lover, his spouse, his friend, or even perhaps the hospital nurse. Whoever she (or he) is, the narrator finds her/him beautiful, and uses their beauty and the beauty of the world (the sunny weather) as a window of escape from his lonely prison of a hospital room.
I look forward to more from the mysterious Whoeverthatis.

