Mirror, mirror on the wall
The face you've shown me scares me so
I thought that I could call your bluff
But now the lines are clear enough
Life's not pretty even though
I've tried so hard to make it so
Mornings are such cold distress
How did I ever get into this mess
I'm snowblind, can't live without you
So fine I just can't get away
Now I'm snowblind, snowblind, snowblind
Harmless and innocent you devil in white
You stole my will without a fight
You filled me with confidence, but you blinded my eyes
You tricked me with visions of Paradise
Now I realize I'm
Snowblind, can't live without you
So fine I just can't get away
Now I'm snowblind, snowblind, snowblind
Mirror, mirror I confess
I can't escape this emptiness
No more reason to pretend
Here comes that same old feeling again
Snowblind, can't live without you
So fine I just can't get away
Won't you throw me a lifeline
I'm going down for the third time
I'm snowblind, and I can't get away
The face you've shown me scares me so
I thought that I could call your bluff
But now the lines are clear enough
Life's not pretty even though
I've tried so hard to make it so
Mornings are such cold distress
How did I ever get into this mess
So fine I just can't get away
Now I'm snowblind, snowblind, snowblind
You stole my will without a fight
You filled me with confidence, but you blinded my eyes
You tricked me with visions of Paradise
Now I realize I'm
So fine I just can't get away
Now I'm snowblind, snowblind, snowblind
I can't escape this emptiness
No more reason to pretend
Here comes that same old feeling again
So fine I just can't get away
Won't you throw me a lifeline
I'm going down for the third time
I'm snowblind, and I can't get away
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I think this song is obviously about cocaine addiction.Though styx aren't among my fav bands,i couldn't help but liking this song,and the deep meanings it seems to contain.It's about a cocaine addict who knows that he's destroying his life,but somehow can't manage to stop it.The WHITE DEVIL gave him the CONFIDENCE he lacked while he was clean(cocaine does that)but also stole his will,his strength,his ability to tell the difference between what's right and what's surely wrong. this song just sticks to your brain when you hear it over and over again
Even from 11yrs old, I never until now considered cocaine addiction. But I agree now, it is obvious.
Even from 11yrs old, I never until now considered cocaine addiction. But I agree now, it is obvious.
A: This song is obviously about someone's fight to get off of cocoaine (probably the fight of the writer or writers). Remember the lines "Cant live without you" and "You devil in WHITE."
B: There was once a small sect of people who believed this song witheld satanic messages, audible when the song is played in reverse. This is absolutely UNTRUE and has been denied by the members of Styx many a time. In addition, the only backwards message I know of Styx inserting into a song is the very obvious reversal of Annuit Cœptis Novus Ordo Seclorum in the beginning of Heavy Metal Poisoning. This, contrary to the satanic facade that up-tight rock haters have given Styx means "God has been with us through our undertakings." Kinda cool.
holy buddha, way to think outside the box OS. I never would have thought that it was about a cocaine addiction. You're probably right because when you're on cocaine it sometimes causes you to lose your sight. Snowblind.
I concur with OS Was Here. Any song that has the words "mirror," "lines" and "snow" can only be about one thing. Still, it's JY's best vocal, and the bum-bum-bum at the end is eerie and awesome.
Dude...why do people think everything's about cocaine? ANd the hidden messages were false, a least according to the book "The Odd Index"
Actually...is or was JY a cocaine addict? I
Primarily - This song is about cocaine addiction... Secondarily - This song is about addiction...
THE ONLY MEMBER OF STYX TO BE HOOKED ON DRUGS WAS JOHN PANAZZO!!!! AND HE WASN'T EVEN HOOKED ON COCAINE!!! HE WAS HOOKED ON BARBUTUATES!!! get your facts straight... besides, I'd think it would be obvious if one of them were on cocaine. Though it may be about addiciton, none of the writers were on cocaine.
@locodisastrechic I knew John & his wife Jan.He lived in the penthouse at 1 Mag Mile. I worked at the Underground Wonderbar(Walton & State)He drank Heineken and Cuervo 1800 on a daily basis until we had to pour him into the taxi. He was just John to us. Very friendly man. One day, a street musician came into the bar and said "Do you know who's sitting in the bar right now?". His cover was blown. He told me that my guitar playing was OK, but I'm no Tommy Shaw. He was married on stage at the World Theater in Tinley...
@locodisastrechic I knew John & his wife Jan.He lived in the penthouse at 1 Mag Mile. I worked at the Underground Wonderbar(Walton & State)He drank Heineken and Cuervo 1800 on a daily basis until we had to pour him into the taxi. He was just John to us. Very friendly man. One day, a street musician came into the bar and said "Do you know who's sitting in the bar right now?". His cover was blown. He told me that my guitar playing was OK, but I'm no Tommy Shaw. He was married on stage at the World Theater in Tinley Park. I think about him every time I hear a Styx song. A Great Man and a Great Friend.
Tommy Shaw was addicted to cocaine, and this song is about how he suffered through it.
"Snowblind" was written in 1980 by Dennis DeYoung and James Young as an anti-cocaine song. They were having trouble with the lyrics, and asked Tommy Shaw to contribute some, which he did: from the addict's point of view. The verses he sang are the ones he wrote.
As for drummer John Panozzo being an addict, he did like to party (and did often with Tommy), but alcohol was his weakness, culminating in his death in 1996. Tommy was addicted to cocaine and alcohol, but got clean by the late 80s, and has been sober ever since.