Snow
 

Yet another collective compilation in homage to the foot of it now falling outside here...



close the door
put out the light
you know they won't be home tonight
the snow falls hard and don't you know
the Winds of Thor are blowing cold
they're wearing steel that's bright and true
they carry news that must get through
they choose the path where no one goes

they hold no quarter

walking side by side with death
the devil mocks their every step
the snow drives back the foot that's slow
the Dogs of Doom are howling more
they carry news that must get through
to build a dream for me and you
they choose the path where no one goes

they hold no quarter
they ask no quarter

Walking in the Air

We’re walking in the air
We’re floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly

I´m holding very tight
I’m riding in the midnight blue
I’m finding I can fly so high above with you

Far across the world
The villages go by like dreams
The rivers and the hills
The forests and the streams

Children gaze open mouth
Taken by surprise
Nobody down below believes their eyes

We’re surfing in the air
We’re swimming in the frozen sky
We’re drifting over icy mountains floating by

Suddenly swooping low on an ocean deep
Rousing up a mighty monster from his sleep

We’re walking in the air
We’re floating in the midnight sky
And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly

I´m holding very tight
I’m riding in the midnight blue
I’m finding I can fly so high above with you

A Million Parachutes

Like a million parachutes
The snow's coming down
I'll lock up the front door
And turn the lights down
In the glow of the street lights
I see them descend
Like a million parachutes
Small men on a mission

[Chorus]
I miss the warmth
And I miss the sun
I miss the ocean
I miss everyone
And I miss the bridges
That span across the bay
Tonight, it seems like ages ago

Like a million parachutes
the snow still falls
The dogs are asleep now
There's no one to call
I'll put on some records
And wait for the light
Under those million parachutes
Now a blanket of white.
- Sixpence None The Richer

could you see the aisles of women
could you see them screaming and weeping
could you see the storm rising
could you see the guy who was driving
could you climb higher and higher
could you climb right over the top

why does a multi millionaire
fill up his home with priceless junk

the wind is whistling
the wind is whistling
through the house

Elvis are you out there somewhere
looking like a happy man
in the snow with Rosebud
and king of the mountain

another Hollywood waitress
is telling us she’s having your baby
and there is a rumour that you’re on ice
and you will rise again someday
and then there’s a photograph
where you’re dancing on your grave

the wind is whistling
the wind is whistling
through the house

Elvis are you out there somewhere
looking like a happy man
in the snow with Rosebud
and king of the mountain

the wind it blows
the wind it blows
the door
closed

The Incomparable Kate - Aerial - King of the Mountain

at the head of Glen Holm
sheltered 'neath your outspread wing
where the north wind grows not old
in your arms I hope to find her

for your kingdom is so cold
all is frozen by your hand
is her hair still raven-black
and does no one mourn her passing

snowgatherer
where do you lie with her
snowgatherer
winter will not contain her

in this strange and barren land
hailstones rage upon my face
higher still your gathering
and I wish I could forget her

all I see is broken worlds
reaching into wilderness
yet her arms are 'round me now
fearing for my life, I love her

snowgatherer
where do you lie with her
snowgatherer
winter will not contain her


Mouth Music - Seafaring Man - Snowgatherer

snow can wait
I forgot my mittens
wipe my nose
get my new boots on
I get a little warm in my heart
when I think of winter
I put my hand in my father's glove

I run off where the drifts get deeper
Sleeping Beauty trips me with a frown
I hear a voice
"you must learn to stand up
for yourself
'cause I can't alyways be around"

he says
when you gonna make up your mind
when you gonna love you as much as I do
when you gonna make up your mind
'cause things are gonna change so fast
all the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that I'll always want you near
you say that things change
my dear

boys get discovered as winter melts
flowers competing for the sun
years go by and I'm here still waiting
withering where some snowman was
mirror mirror where's the crystal palace
but I only can see myself
skating around the truth who I am
but I know dad
the ice is getting thin

hair is grey and the fires are burning
so many dreams on the shelf
you say I wanted you to be proud
I always wanted that myself

when you gonna make up your mind
when you gonna love you as much as I do
when you gonna make up your mind
'cause things are gonna change so fast
all the white horses have gone ahead
I tell you that I'll always want you near
you say that things change
my dear

never change

all the white horses

Tori - Little Earthquakes - Winter

Winter weather troubles (humor)
 

Snow, Both Sides Now
Tune: "Both Sides Now"
(Parody lyrics by Drakonix)

Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles everywhere
Its fun to visit it somewhere
Ive looked at snow that way

But now it only blocks my fun
Its everywhere, on everyone
So many things I could have done
But snow got in my way

Ive looked at snow from both sides now
Have no funds to fix the snowplow
Its not illusions I recall
I really don't like snow at all

Its cold outside all damn day
Heating bills so high I cant pay
Theres got to be a better way
Like moving far away

But now here comes some more damn snow
Roads are blocked nowhere I can go
Powers out cant watch TV shows
Ill be stuck here for days

Ive looked at snow from both sides now
Ill have to move away somehow
Its not illusions I recall
I really dont like snow at all

Its cold and wind is blowing fast
I slipped on ice, busted my ass
Now my bum is in a cast
More big bills I cant pay

The roads are cleared but I need chains
The stores are out, more winter pains
Theres only loss and never gains
In wintertime days

Ive looked at snow from both sides now
I must wait for spring to move now
Its not illusions I recall
Ill go where theres no snow at all

Pink Floyd - Yet Another Movie
 

nice one, drak :tu:

RAS, i'd kill for a little snow right now - we have temps in the high 60's with howling southern winds. most unseasonable.

the doors - Wintertime Love
 

Grateful Dead - Cold Rain and Snow
 

oh, so we're going deep into the archives for some Dead?

Brown-Eyed Women - Grateful Dead

Gone are the days when the ox fall down
Take up the yoke and plough the fields around
Gone are the days when the ladies said "please
Gentle Jack Jones won't you come to me"

Chorus
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down
And it looks like the old man's getting on

Nineteen twenty when he stepped to the bar
Drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar
Nineteen thirty when the wall caved in
He made his way selling red-eyed gin

[chorus]

Delilah Jones was the mother of twins
Two times over and the rest were sins
Raised eight boys, only I turned bad
Didn't get the lickings that the other ones had

[chorus]

Tumble-down shack in Big Foot County
Snowed so hard that the roof caved in
Delilah Jones went to meet her God
And the old man never was the same again

Daddy made whiskey and he made it well
Cost two dollars and it burned like hell (note e)
I cut hickory just to fire the still
Drink down a bottle and you're ready to kill

Knife: Time share? I'll trade ya. Snow is nice to look at but Drak pretty much summed up my general feeling of actually living in it. (Looking forward to a recording by Tenacious D). Does make for some damned good songs though. Does anyone else make playlists of these things?

I took my love
I took it down
climbed a mountain and I turned around
and I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
till the landslide brought me down

oh mirror in the sky
what is love
can the child within my heart rise above
can I sail through the changing ocean tides
can I handle the seasons of my life

well I've been afraid of changing
'cause I've built my life around you
but time makes you bolder
children get older
and I'm getting older too

take my love
take it down
climb a mountain and turn around
and if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
well the landslide will bring it down

if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
well maybe the landslide will bring it down

FM - Eponymous - Landslide

Just heard this one on the radio...
flying birds
excellent birds
watch them fly
there they go

falling snow
excellent snow
here it comes
watch it fall

long words
excellent words
I can hear them now
this is the picture

I'm sitting by the window
watching the snow fall
I'm looking out
and I'm moving turning in time
jump up
and I can land on my feet
look out
this is the picture

looking out
I'm watching now
but when I see the future
I close my eyes
I can see it now

I see pictures of people
rising up
I see pictures of people
falling down
I see pictures of people
they're standing on their heads they're ready

they're looking out
look out
they're watching out
watch out
they're looking out
look out
they're watching out
watching watching out

Laurie and Peter - Mister Heartbreak - Excellent Birds

not to forget:
...on top of Old Smokey all covered with snow
that's where I wanna
that's where I'm gonna
that's where I'm gonna
go... (Sharkey's Day)

Trivia for bonus points: What movie is the line "The snow is warm" from?

sounds like a good movie Ramona, but no clue.


oh the weather outside is frightful...


...The lights are turned way down low

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!


not only playlists but actual cd's ;)

:)

we climbed and we climbed
O how we climbed
aye how we climbed
over the stars
to top
Tiger Mountain
forcing the lines through the snow
we climbed and we climbed
O how we climbed
aye how we climbed
over the stars
to top
Tiger Mountain
forcing the lines through the snow
we climbed and we climbed
O how we climbed
aye how we climbed
over the stars
to top
Tiger Mountain
forcing the lines through the snow

Brian Peter George St. Jean le Baptiste de la Salle Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) - (title track)

great tune!! i can dig it ;)

How about the Jethro Tull Christmas Album

Jack Frost And The Hooded Crow

Through long December nights we talk in words of rain or snow
while you, through chattering teeth, reply and curse as you go.
Why not spare a thought this day for those who have no flame
to warm their bones at Christmas time?
Say Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow.

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Weathercock

Do you simply reflect changes in the patterns of the sky?
Or is it true to say the weather heeds the twinkle in your eye?
Do you fight the rush of winter; and hold snowflakes at bay?
Do you lift the dawn sun from the fields and help him on his way?

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First Snow On Brooklyn

And the first snow on Brooklyn paints a Christmas card upon the pavement.
The cab leaves a disappearing trace and then it’s gone.
And the snow covers my footprints, deep regrets and heavy heartbeats.
When you wake you’ll never see the spot that I was standing on.

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A Winter Snowscape

instumental

wonder where our friend Nanook is? BTW!

Hmmmm whats that Zappa tune again lol
you know the one about the dog doo snow cones ;)

Obligatory of course, for Nanook
 

dreamed I was an eskimo
frozen wind began to blow
under my boots and around my toes
the frost that bit the ground below
it was a hundred degrees below zero

and my mama cried
and my mama cried
Nanook! a-no-no
Nanook! a-no-no
don't be a naughty eskimo
save your money don't go to the show

well I turned around and I said oh oh oh
well I turned around and I said oh oh oh
well I turned around and I said ho ho
and the northern lights commenced to glow
and she said
with a tear in her eye
watch out where the huskies go
and don't you eat that yellow snow

FZ - Apostrophe

I was one as you were one
And we were two so much in love forever
I loved the white socks that you wore
But you don't wear white socks no more, now you're a woman
I joked about your turned-up nose
And criticized your school girl clothes
But would I then have paced these roads to love you
For seasons come and seasons go
Bring forth the rain the sun and snow
Make Valerie a woman
And Valerie is lonely

No more to roam on the snow hills of Hienton
Undecided with the guardians of the older generation
A doormat was a sign of welcome
In the winter months to come
And in the summer laughing
Through the castle ruins we'd run

For the quadrangle sang to the sun
And the grace of our feeling
And the candle burned low as we talked of the future
Underneath the ceiling
There were tears in the sky
And the clouds in your eyes were just cover
For your thighs were the cushions
Of my love and yours for each other
The songs still are sung
It was fun to be young
But please dont be sad where `ere you are

I am who I am
You are who you are
Now Valerie's a woman
Now Valerie's a woman
Now Valerie's a woman


First Episode At Hienton - Bernie Taupin, from the album Elton John

you say it was this morning when you last saw your good friend
lyin' on the pavement with a misery on his brain
stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall

he only had a dollar to live on 'til next monday
but he spent it on some comfort for his mind
did you say you think he's blind

someone should call his parents a sister or a brother
and they'll come to take him back home on a bus
but he'll always be a problem to his poor and puzzled mother
yeah he'll always be another one of us

he said he wanted heaven but prayin' was too slow
so he bought a one way ticket on an airline made of snow

did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low?
flyin' low
dyin' slow

Hoyt Axton/Steppenwolf - Snowblind Friend

I'm wondering when and where you could get one of those tickets for a dollar...

REO Speedwagon - Riding the Storm Out
 

I am a lineman for the county
and I drive the main road
searchin' in the sun for another overload
I hear you singing in the wires
I can hear you through the whine

and the Wichita lineman
is still on the line

I know I need a small vacation
but it don't look like rain
and if it snows that that stretch down south
won't ever stand the strain
and I need you more than want you
and I want you for all time

and the Wichita lineman
is still on the line

beep beep beep beep

Jimmy Webb, as covered by Glen Campbell, Andy Williams, Tom Jones, Smokey Robinson, Sammy Davis Jr., José Feliciano, Kool & The Gang, Ray Charles, Urge Overkill, REM, Johnny Cash, Dwight Yoakam and Freddy Fender... to name a few

makin' a living the old hard way
takin' and giving by day by day
I dig snow and rain and bright sunshine
draggin' the line

my dog Sam eats purple flowers
we ain't got much but what we got's ours
we dig snow and rain and bright sunshine
draggin' the line
draggin' the line

I feel fine
I'm talkin' bout peace of mind
I'm gonna take my time
I'm gettin' the good sign
draggin' the line
draggin' the line

loving the free and feelin' spirit
of huggin' a tree when you get near it
I dig snow and rain and bright sunshine
draggin' the line
draggin' the line

Tommy James & the Shondells

are you OK?
you've been shot in the head
and I'm holding your brains
the old woman said
so I drink in the shadows
of an evening sky
see nothing at all

the stars look so special
the snow looks so old*
a frail form is drifting
beyond the yoga-zone
time to question the mountain
why pigs can fly
it's nothing at all

I praise to you
nothing ever goes away
I praise to you
nothing ever goes
I praise to you

Bowie - Earthling - Seven Years in Tibet

*"the snow... is warm..."

....my mind... I can feel it going Dave...
 

a river
a mountain to be crossed
the sunshine
in mountains sometimes lost
around the south side
so cold that we cried
were we ever colder on that day a million miles away
it seemed from all eternity

move forward
was my friend's only cry
in deeper
to somewhere we could lie
and rest for the the day
with cold in the way
were we ever colder on that day a million miles away
it seemed from all eternity

the moments
seemed lost in all the noise
a snow storm
a stimulating voice
of warmth of the sky
of warmth when you die
were we ever colder on that day a million miles away
we seemed from all eternity

the sunshine
in mountains sometimes lost
the river
can disregard the cost
and melt in the sky
warmth when you die
were we ever colder on that day a million miles away
we seemed from all eternity


Yes - Fragile - South Side of the Sky

Two more by Kate. (they are only waffer theen)

Under Ice (from Hounds of Love)

it's wonderful
everywhere
so white
the river
has frozen over
not a soul
on the ice
only me
skating fast
I'm speeding past
trees
leaving little lines
in the ice
cutting out
little lines
in the ice
splitting
splitting sound
silver heels
spitting
spitting snow

there's something moving under
under the ice
moving under ice
through water
trying to
get out
of the cold
water
"it's me"
something
someone
help them
"it's me"



Moments of Pleasure (from The Red Shoes)

some moments that I've had
some moments of pleasure

I think about us lying
lying on a beach somewhere
I think about us diving
diving off a rock
into another moment

the case of George the Wipe
oh god I can't stop laughing
this sense of humor of mine
it isn't funny at all
but we sit up all night
talking about it

just being alive
it can really hurt
these moments given
are a gift from time

on a balcony in New York
it's just started to snow
he meets us at the lift
like Douglas Fairbanks
waving his walking stick
but he isn't well at all
the buildings of New York
look just like mountains through the snow

just being alive
it can really hurt
and these moments given
are a gift from time
just let us try
to give these moments back
to those we love
to those who will survive

and I can hear my mother saying
"every old sock meets an old shoe"
isn't that a great saying
every old sock meets an old shoe
here come the Hills of Time:

hey there Maureen...
hey there Bubba
dancing down the aisle of the plane...
it's Murph
playing his guitar refrain...
hey there Teddy
spinning in the chair at Abbey Road...
hey there Michael
do you really love me?
hey there Bill
could you turn the lights up?

Beatles - Back in the USSR
 

It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
But it dont snow here
It stays pretty green
I'm going to make a lot of money
Then I'm going to quit this crazy scene
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I made my baby cry

He tried hard to help me
You know, he put me at ease
And he loved me so naughty
Made me weak in the knees
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and I'm sad
Now I've gone and lost the best baby
That I ever had
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
Oh I wish I had a river
I made my baby say goodbye

It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on


The unsurpassed Joni

shooting from the hip
about our faith and love
I see it in your faces as thin as shadow
see me as I figure in your late night plan
see me as I'm cocooned up in badlands
the side effects of cruising at the speed of life
the side effects of living in temptation
when only one star is waiting upon all of us
you'll see me as I'm cocooned up in badlands
and how do I feel living in the eighties
and do I ever get to see the light of day

Kyoto in the snow
heaven's far away
sending their love
passion parade

hunter and the hunted
with me
first times can never lie

they were young
they were brave
the honest set
the greatest show on earth is here tonight
love
see me as a figure in the late night plan
see me as I'm cocooned up in badlands
the side effects of cruising at the speed of life
the side effects of living in temptation
when only one star is waiting up on all of us
you'll see me as I'm cocooned up in badlands
and how do I feel living in the eighties
and do I get to see the light of day

Kyoto in the snow
heaven's far away
sending their love
passion parade

hunter and the hunted
with me
first times can never lie

only with you
life moves so fast

when your hear me screaming
I'll be seeing through the eyes of love

tell me can you hear me
tell me can you see me

Simple Minds - New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84 - Hunter and The Hunted

A couple of weird ambient instrumental deals from a CD by some dude named SAO, (I think he's Japanese).

Forms Under Snow (part I)
Forms Under Snow (part II)

Heard a rumor the second half of the CD might be coming out real soon.

Tommy James and the Shondelles
 

I dig snow and rain and bright sunshine
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
My dog Sam eats purple flowers
We ain't got much but what we got's ours
We dig snow and rain and bright sunshine
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)

I feel fine
I'm talkin' bout peace of mind
I'm gonna take my time
I'm gettin' the good sign

Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)

Repeat Floyd, -10 points lol

when the wind blows and the rain feels cold
with a head full of snow
with a head full of snow
in the window there's a face you know
don't the nights pass slow
don't the nights pass slow

the sound of strangers sending nothing to my mind
just another mad mad day on the road
i am just living to be lying by your side
but I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road

made a rag pile of my shiny clothes
gonna warm my bones
gonna warm my bones
I got silence on my radio

let the air waves flow
let the air waves flow

oh I'm sleeping under strange strange skies
just another mad mad day on the road
my dreams is fading down the railway line
I'm just about a moonlight mile down the road

I'm hiding sister and I'm dreaming
I'm riding down your moonlight mile
I'm hiding baby and I'm dreaming
I'm riding down your moonlight mile
I'm riding down you moonlight mile

let it go now
come on up babe
yeah let it go now
yeah flow now baby
yeah move on now yeah

yeah I'm coming home
cause, I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road
down the road
down the road

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers - Moonlight Mile

thick cloud steam rising hissing stone on sweat lodge fire
around me buffalo robe sage in bundle rub on skin
outside cold air stand wait for rising sun
red paint eagle feathers coyote calling it has begun
something moving in I taste it in my mouth and in my heart
it feels like dying slow letting go of life

medicine man lead me up though town
Indian ground so far down
cut up land each house a pool kids wearing water wings drink in cool
follow dry river bed watch scouts and guides make pow-wow signs
past Geronimo's Disco Sit 'n' Bull steakhouse white men dream

a rattle in the old man's sack look at mountain top keep climbing up
way above us the desert snow
white wind blow

I hold the line
the line of strength that pulls me through the fear
San Jacinto
I hold the line
San Jacinto
the poison bite and darkness take my sight -
I hold the line
and the tears roll down my swollen cheek -
think I'm losing it
getting weaker
I hold the line
San Jacinto
yellow eagle flies down from the sun
from the sun

we will walk on the land
we will breathe of the air
we will drink from the stream
we will live
hold the line

PG - Security - San Jacinto

it's like there's a straight way you know
you know
I've told you before
it's as thin as ice
as thin as the razor snow

don't freeze in the snow
don't bake in the heat
I'll be your breath
there's a place where we can meet
there's a place where we can meet

use me
don't sleep in the subway
don't sleep in the pouring rain

by my voice in my midnight meditation
when I wake be my heart's flotation
come and fill
come and fill from the overflow
come and play
come and play be like a bird

don't sleep in the subway
I'm needing you
well I
I feel you
you're closing down yeah
get close talk right through me
get close keep tight with me
if you fall now it could be forever
I'm telling you the line is thin now
I've told you before this hate is a sin
empty out for the overflow
let love begin
let love
begin

there's a place where we can meet

Peter Murphy - Cascade - Subway

Meatloaf - 2 out of 3 aint bad
 

The snow is really piling up outside

i hate meatloaf, but here it is anyway

i wish for snow here

careful what you wish for ;)

strip the branches
unsheathe the hatchets
the threads of friendship
are coming off

the teeth of lawyers
man the trenches
bands of betrothal
are coming off

but if we're good
if we're kind
but if we're good
generous and kind
we'll inhabit their sunsets
their goddesses and queens
we'll try to do the right thing

oh save them
oh save them

let the children come to me

it's a harrowing world
of adults and girls
lashing out at the hurt
that surrounds them
with the knives drawn apart
they shatter the heart
of anyone that dares come between them

let the children come to me

once a playground of swings
then the malice set in
and reduced all the colours to winter

so we made it our own
this snow borne sorrow
and this love that stutters and splinters

let the children come to me

her apostles have gone
they left one by one
with no forwarding address to trace them
it's a secular world
of adults and girls
and we ask because nothing is certain

let the children come to me

when their feet touch the ground
naked unbound
I want them to know they can trust me

there's so much to be ungrateful for
let the children come to me

Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow - Title

she's here in the snowfall
at dead of night
the mood is of courtship
the final fight
she's all that I need
all that I am
the voice of compassion
inside the man

if you open the gates
the madness begins
I'll follow you down
I'll follow you back in
she's here in the lifelines
in every curve
suspended in silence
between each word

it's all in the way that she moves
the grace and the light that will see me through
it's coming true
she's prising the rope from my hands
the fear and the hopes that I held onto
it's coming true
color the river I swim back to you
Krishna blue

waist deep in water
she starts to sing
the voice is familiar
and draws me in
she's lighting the fires
I dowsed by hand
erasing the figure
drawn in sand

you open the gates
the madness begins
I follow you down
I follow you back in
and here in the darkness
the boundary gone
the flame is alive
and burning strong

it's all in the way that she moves
the grace and the light that will see me through
it's coming true
color the river I swim back to you
Krishna blue

"in the softest belly and the warmest heart
In your open hands I lay my head
In the never ending I fall apart
In the silent forest and the brilliant red
And through the stream of words there comes a sound
And I listen childlike to her voice spellbound"

David Sylvian (& Ingrid Chavez) - Dead Bees on a Cake - Krishna Blue



Hint: two 'accidental' clues to trivia question in post #30

true,but it looks nice coming down,and afterwards the world has come to a stop kinda feeling.