This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
{Dear Santa, I live in Hollywood but it's not like in the movies
Where Christmas is always snowy white
On my list, is just one wish that it would snow tonight}
When the snow comes down in Tinseltown
There'll be dancing in Hollywood
Slippin' and slidin' and
Sleigh riding all over the neighborhood
You'll be rocking with a stocking on your head
So the cold won't get to you
On Christmas eve you can believe
That wishes do come true
Oh, when the snow comes down
Oh in Tinseltown
On Christmas eve
You will believe
When the snow comes down
In Tinseltown
You close your eyes, and to your surprise
You see the Reindeer fly
It's choir singing fa la la la la
Go walking by
Singing and ringing ride along
And Church bells in the air
It seems so real, that you can feel
The snowflakes in your hair
Oh, when the snow comes down
Oh in Tinseltown
On Christmas eve
You will believe
When the snow comes down
In Tinseltown
In the morning, when you awake
Your face all shining bright
And when you look outside
You see the palm trees dressed in white!
(Aah)
{Dear Santa thank you, thank you
For that perfect Christmas day
Gliding down the streets of Hollywood
In a one horse open sleigh}
Oh, when the snow comes down
Oh in Tinseltown
On Christmas eve
You will believe
When the snow comes down
In Tinseltown
Oh, when the snow comes down
(La la la la)
Oh in Tinseltown
(La la la la)
On Christmas eve
You will believe
When the snow comes down
In Tinseltown
Oh, when the snow comes down
(La, la la la)
Oh in Tinseltown
(La la la la)
On Christmas eve
You will believe
When the snow comes down
In Tinseltown
Oh, when the snow comes down
(La la la la)
Oh in Tinseltown
(La la la, la)
On Christmas eve
You will believe
When the snow comes down
In Tinseltown
Oh, when the snow comes down
(La la la la)
Where Christmas is always snowy white
On my list, is just one wish that it would snow tonight}
When the snow comes down in Tinseltown
There'll be dancing in Hollywood
Slippin' and slidin' and
Sleigh riding all over the neighborhood
You'll be rocking with a stocking on your head
So the cold won't get to you
On Christmas eve you can believe
That wishes do come true
Oh, when the snow comes down
Oh in Tinseltown
On Christmas eve
You will believe
When the snow comes down
In Tinseltown
You close your eyes, and to your surprise
You see the Reindeer fly
It's choir singing fa la la la la
Go walking by
Singing and ringing ride along
And Church bells in the air
It seems so real, that you can feel
The snowflakes in your hair
Oh, when the snow comes down
Oh in Tinseltown
On Christmas eve
You will believe
When the snow comes down
In Tinseltown
In the morning, when you awake
Your face all shining bright
And when you look outside
You see the palm trees dressed in white!
(Aah)
{Dear Santa thank you, thank you
For that perfect Christmas day
Gliding down the streets of Hollywood
In a one horse open sleigh}
Oh, when the snow comes down
Oh in Tinseltown
On Christmas eve
You will believe
When the snow comes down
In Tinseltown
Oh, when the snow comes down
(La la la la)
Oh in Tinseltown
(La la la la)
On Christmas eve
You will believe
When the snow comes down
In Tinseltown
Oh, when the snow comes down
(La, la la la)
Oh in Tinseltown
(La la la la)
On Christmas eve
You will believe
When the snow comes down
In Tinseltown
Oh, when the snow comes down
(La la la la)
Oh in Tinseltown
(La la la, la)
On Christmas eve
You will believe
When the snow comes down
In Tinseltown
Oh, when the snow comes down
(La la la la)
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When the Snow Comes Down in Tinseltown Lyrics as written by Charlie Midnight
Lyrics © ROUND HILL MUSIC
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