| Tori Amos – Winter Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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To me, this song is about growing up. The lyrics is written in a sort of way that you get the feeling that there is two different persons speaking about the subject. In the beginning of the song, the lines "Snow can wait, I forgot my mittens" and "I put my hand in my fathers glove" makes me think of a little girl who is going out into the snow, togethet with her father. But the winter can't come just yet, because she doesn't have her mittens, because thing aren't like they used to be. As the song advances, we hear "You must learn to stand up for yourself, 'cause I can't always be around". I have myself experienced the same words, and they make me think about not being prtected by somebody stronger than yourself anymore. But when you suddenly have to stand all alone, you get afraid, and can't make decisions. You start to dislike yourself and can't love yourself. Hence the lines "He says when you gonna make up your mind" "When you gonna love you as much as I do". As the girl grows, when springs come she starts to discover boys, as "boys get discovered as winter melts", but the girl doesn't want to grow up, she doesn't want things to change, even though they are, and they are changing fast. Tough she stands still, hoping for things to be like they were all those the winters spent with her father. "Mirror Mirror, where's the crystal palace?" Where is the handsome prince who will take her to his castle on his white stallion? "All the white horses" means the same, that reality isn't like the fantasy world we'd all like to live in. All she can see is herself, pretending to be something she has started to grow away from. She is "skating around the truth who I am" and trying to avoid her inner self. But "the ice is getting thin", she can't pretend like this much longer. "When you gonna make up your mind? When you gonne love you as much as I do?" The other person incline and tell her to make up her mind about who she want's to be, before it's too late. She should accept who she is and love herself for that. She starts to grow, starts to grow out of her old home, but tells the person that she'll "always want you near", but the other person shakes it head and says "that things are going to change, my dear". The narrative then changes to the other person, who already have grown up a long time ago "hair is gray" but still feels it "the fires are burning", because the person waited too long, wasn't true to themselves and thus missed the chance of doing something great "so many dreams on the shelf". The girl say that she wanted the person to be proud of her, but that's exactly what the person wanted, and had worked for so long. |
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