...just walk outside, as the wind starts to blow, leaves swirl, the air taking an unfriendly bite out of the warmth.....run Half a Week through your head. You may agree that it's a perfectly realized song. Stephan's drumming could very well be my march-like gait across NYC streets under overcast skies.
...and just as the "autumn years" refer to the final years of life as one gets older, the winter symbolizes a kind of death, or "change", if you will.
Perhaps, in Vanessa's case, it's a changing of the guard....maybe she knew a showdown with Interscope was inevitable. And just as we cannot stop the changing of seasons, Harmonium was let go like a balloon from a child's hand, soaring creatively nonetheless, vanishing into the sky.
Dan/NS