I really like this song. It's about trying to create a fantasy world, a river, to drift and float away on from the pressures of life. I agree that it could possibly be the loss of someone (with the talk of the baby) and being sad at Christmas which is suposed to be a time of happiness.
It seems like the speaker sees everyone else around her, laughing and setting up the world for Christmas, when she is alone. She realizes her faults and she tells herself that she'll get away from this place, because she doesn't really belong there anymore. In the lines "But it don't snow here...." she's really bitter, especially when she says she'll make a lot of money and get away, but then in the chorus it's like she's saying "You know, I didn't really mean it that way. I just want to escape somewhere, to disappear."
It seems like the speaker sees everyone else around her, laughing and setting up the world for Christmas, when she is alone. She realizes her faults and she tells herself that she'll get away from this place, because she doesn't really belong there anymore. In the lines "But it don't snow here...." she's really bitter, especially when she says she'll make a lot of money and get away, but then in the chorus it's like she's saying "You know, I didn't really mean it that way. I just want to escape somewhere, to disappear."
I really like this song. It's about trying to create a fantasy world, a river, to drift and float away on from the pressures of life. I agree that it could possibly be the loss of someone (with the talk of the baby) and being sad at Christmas which is suposed to be a time of happiness.
It seems like the speaker sees everyone else around her, laughing and setting up the world for Christmas, when she is alone. She realizes her faults and she tells herself that she'll get away from this place, because she doesn't really belong there anymore. In the lines "But it don't snow here...." she's really bitter, especially when she says she'll make a lot of money and get away, but then in the chorus it's like she's saying "You know, I didn't really mean it that way. I just want to escape somewhere, to disappear."
It seems like the speaker sees everyone else around her, laughing and setting up the world for Christmas, when she is alone. She realizes her faults and she tells herself that she'll get away from this place, because she doesn't really belong there anymore. In the lines "But it don't snow here...." she's really bitter, especially when she says she'll make a lot of money and get away, but then in the chorus it's like she's saying "You know, I didn't really mean it that way. I just want to escape somewhere, to disappear."
@cay15 I'd say the reference to "baby" is used in the context of a loved one / partner (not literally a baby). Appears she has lost her partner
@cay15 I'd say the reference to "baby" is used in the context of a loved one / partner (not literally a baby). Appears she has lost her partner