Weary Traveller is the first single taken from Matthew Carter's 2015 EP Patterns. 

The song shares a theme running through the whole EP. It's about how we spend our time looking forward into the future, or back into the past, and only very rarely find ourselves in the moment. 

Often it's nature that brings us back into the moment. It helps us get out of our own heads. 

This song is about a journey, retracing steps you've made before, but somehow not being able to. Things not being the same, as perfect, as you remember them being. It's about accepting that the past is the past. It's about moving on. 

The chorus is taken from Hardy's Drummer Hodge - portion of that unknown plain will Hodge forever be, and strange-eyed constellations reign his star eternally (or something like that). 

It's trying to communicate that idea that sometimes we find ourselves overwhelmingly in the moment, and so rarely does this happen that it feels significant. Things look different here. It feels like you've been brought here, by design. That this experience, that star, is in some sense, meant for me.

Official video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXkmt7ZNZeA

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