My colleague Keith Davis wrote a blog entry about weather songs after Prince electrified the Super Bowl with his half-time performance of "Purple Rain."

We got lots of great comments about song lyrics referencing weather, but no one wrote in with the song I believe is the quintessential weather song: "Weather With You" by Crowded House. The song's chorus says it all: "Everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you."

The brothers who wrote this song, Neil and Tim Finn, have a long history of writing music with weather lyrics. From their lyrics with their first band Split Enz up to their solo careers today, weather has always been a central theme in their songs.

Weather is often used as a metaphor in lyrics, poems and prose, but there are definitely some writers for whom weather is more inspirational than others. I suspect that growing up in New Zealand has much to do with why the Finn brothers reference weather so frequently in their songs. The New Zealanders I've known are very eco-aware; they grew up with great access to nature, appreciate their country's diverse geology and have a reverence for the outdoors.

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With global warming concerns looming over everyone, maybe it's time to find the New Zealander in all of us. After all, remember the subtle warning from the Finn brothers: Everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you.