From the recording Tell It On The Mountain
The song is a window into a chapter in my life, I'd been working for Fix The Fells for seven years that point, repairing the upland footpaths of the North Lakes in anything the weather would throw at us. We'd just had the wettest summer season I'd ever known, working at -5 on Midsummer's Day.
The mountain is completely indifferent to human suffering, and I wanted to capture that wild indifference in the song. You have a problem? Go tell it on the mountain, see if it cares. Nature can be a great leveller and problems that exist in the modern world cease to be a problem at -5.