White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes cover) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by theresexo 

Cover art for White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes cover) lyrics by Birdy

Well, I guess it's about, like, one tragic cold winter, in which the singer has a younger brother (Michael). She looks out in the window, and sees the brother running with some kind of pack (wolves/ wild dogs/ etc...etc...) and what puzzles her is why he isn't harmed. Then, suddenly, the next second, she turns around to find out that a wolf has killed her brother (And Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime ...) the 'turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime' line means blood or death or something.I think the singer of this song either lost someone special- or either a brother or a lover. Not sure though :(

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