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20 Years of Snow
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He's a wounded animal
He lives in a matchbox
He's a wounded animal
And he's been coming around here

He's a dying breed
He's a dying breed

His daughter is twenty years of snow falling
She's twenty years of strangers looking into each other's eyes
She's twenty years of clean
She never truly hated anyone or anything

She's a dying breed
She's a dying breed

She says, I'd prefer the moss
I'd prefer the mouth
A baby of the swamps
A baby of the south

I'm twenty years of clean
I never truly hated anyone or anything
Twenty years of clean
Twenty years of clean

But I got to get me out of here
This place is full of dirty old men
And the navigators with their mappy maps
And moldy heads and pissing on sugar cubes

I got to get me out of here
This place is full of dirty old men
And the navigators with their mappy maps
And moldy heads and pissing on sugar cubes

While you
Stare at your boots
And the words float out like holograms
And the words float out like holograms
And the words float out like holograms

They say, feel the waltz
Feel the waltz
Come on, baby, baby, now feel the waltz

Feel the waltz
Feel the waltz
Come on, baby, baby, now feel the waltz

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jadedgypsy
05-11-2006

Rated +3

ironically, i only "got" this song when i turned 20 this year.

i think it's about how a father's troubled past later shapes his daughter's life. the father was very wounded and having been damaged, he became reserved and stoic, eventually not being very generous with his emotions. i'm not sure why he's a dyign breed though.

later on, when he has a child, his stoicism affects his daughter's emotional outlook on life. because of the lack of love embraced in the household, she's unfamiliar with the concept and ends up cold, thus the metaphor of "snow falling" for her. all her acquaintances and relationships were nothing more than superficial - hence the "she's twenty years of strangers looking into each other's eyes". and because she was never really immersed in any substantial emotional involvement she never really felt passionate about anything ("never truly hated anyone or anything"). so she lives her life like a blank piece of paper, acummulating nothing, choosing not to hurt herself by not hurting or loving anyone.

but she longs for the moss, which is to say, she doesn't want to be all clean anymore. she wants to break, to feel, to live and to love. but she ends up looking for it in all the wrong places - since she didn't know where to start and ends up in some dodgy street with lots of dirty old men and weird people.

so her conquest for some adventure ends up in disappointment and once again she's disillusioned and heads out for the books that are a more secure alternative as she's merely the vicarious observer, and delights in watchin "the words float out like holograms".