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"
Lay your body down upon the midnight snow
Feel the cold of winter in your hair
Here in a world of your own
In a casing that's grown
To the children's delight
That arrived on the night
Here they come to play their magic games
Carving names upon your frozen hand
Here in a world of your own
Like a sleeper whose eyes
Sees the pain with surprise
As it smothers your cries
They'll never, never know
Hey there's a Snowman
Hey, hey what a Snowman
Pray for the Snowman
Ooh, ooh what a Snowman
They say a snow year's a good year
Filled with the love of all who lie so deep
Smiling faces tear your body to the ground
Covered red that only we can see
Here in a ball that they made
From the snow on the ground
See it rolling away
With wild eyes to the sky
They'll never, never know
Hey there's a Snowman
Hey what a Snowman
Pray for the Snowman
Ooh, ooh what a Snowman
They say a snow year's a good year
Filled with the love of all who lie so deep
Hey there goes the Snowman
Hey there what a Snowman
Hey there lies a Snowman
Hey there was a Snowman
They say a snow year's a good year
Filled with the love of all who lie so deep
Hey there goes the Snowman ...
Feel the cold of winter in your hair
Here in a world of your own
In a casing that's grown
To the children's delight
That arrived on the night
Here they come to play their magic games
Carving names upon your frozen hand
Here in a world of your own
Like a sleeper whose eyes
Sees the pain with surprise
As it smothers your cries
They'll never, never know
Hey there's a Snowman
Hey, hey what a Snowman
Pray for the Snowman
Ooh, ooh what a Snowman
They say a snow year's a good year
Filled with the love of all who lie so deep
Smiling faces tear your body to the ground
Covered red that only we can see
Here in a ball that they made
From the snow on the ground
See it rolling away
With wild eyes to the sky
They'll never, never know
Hey there's a Snowman
Hey what a Snowman
Pray for the Snowman
Ooh, ooh what a Snowman
They say a snow year's a good year
Filled with the love of all who lie so deep
Hey there goes the Snowman
Hey there what a Snowman
Hey there lies a Snowman
Hey there was a Snowman
They say a snow year's a good year
Filled with the love of all who lie so deep
Hey there goes the Snowman ...
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Snowbound Lyrics as written by Mike Rutherford (gb)
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Obviously the parents of the children are lying and trying to pass something else off as snow...which is what they did in Poland during the holocust. Quite sad if that was the case. The song seems a lot deeper and can't see it dealing wiith cocaine.
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I have loved this song for many years. I heard it the first time, when I was 17 y.o. When my mother died, I re-listened and the lyrics made some sense.
Winter has always been a mataphor of mortality. People and orders die, snowmen melt. There is a ring of beauty and acceptance to it. This whole game of existence is heading one way...
As we sleep, when we are awake, when we are young, adult, older, there is always a self-image of, what we are/ were. Everchanging thoughts and conditions play before our mind, until they fall down like snowflakes, forced to silence.
Maybe this so-called reality of fellow beings is more like snowmen, melting limb by limb, image by image, finally surrendering to the flowing in of the tide, experiencing a new kind of freedom from the changes of the world?
@michaelorc The fact that when you first heard this your mother died when you were 17, the lyrics made some sense. That is spiritual. Been a Genesis fan since the 70s. Mike Rutherford writes some beautiful stuff. Case in point: Mike and the Mechanics "In the Living Years".<br />
My friends say this song is about cocaine. I don't buy it.
It's about children and the magical feeling of a snowy winter! There are some strange lines, though... Beautiful song, anyway.
haha the drug reasoning is quite often quoted but its apparently a song about freezing to death. its almost hallucinogenically described thru the song so it could easily be about cocain... until u remember that the lyrics r by genesis. generally more into myth than missuse. still, ya never know. the freezing to death idea to me is so beautifully morbid that it adds something more to the song
This song is incredibly relaxing, damn Genesis is great.
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@dzdarragh Wot, like feeling cold and shit? Spot on.
Every song with "snow" in the title does not involve cocaine. It is a song I believe written by Mike Rutherford, who's lyrics at the time were "visual", like the earlier Poetry of Peter Gabriel on "A lamb lies down". One reason the group was given the term "Art Rock" along with "Yes" and "ELP". Any way the lyrics reflect visions of the snow, children, the sadness of winter, and our immortality, like the snowman. "Love of all who lie so deep" I thought might mean the love of those who have passed on is what brought us here.