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Will you come and what will I say
Oh I have been so distant and unhappy
Like I could disappear
When I was a boy I saw things
That no one else could see
So why am I so blind at twenty-two
To the hope that is all around me
Filling up this room
On the road on my own
Waiting for the words to fall from your tongue
Into my ears
When I was a boy I could hear
Symphonies in seashells
So why am I so deaf at twenty-two
To the sound of the driving snow
That drives me home to you
Oh I have been so distant and unhappy
Like I could disappear
When I was a boy I saw things
That no one else could see
So why am I so blind at twenty-two
To the hope that is all around me
Filling up this room
On the road on my own
Waiting for the words to fall from your tongue
Into my ears
When I was a boy I could hear
Symphonies in seashells
So why am I so deaf at twenty-two
To the sound of the driving snow
That drives me home to you
Lyrics submitted by NoiseCore
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oh, and mark_ass - he didn't commit suicide. Christopher Simpson is in 'The Gloria Record' now. check them out. they rock as well.
The thing is, if you look at the context of the song, he mentions "the sound of the driving snow." Clearly, snow does not really have a sound and if it does (of it hitting the ground) it is very very quiet. Perhaps they are make a reference to how we all go dull as we get older; we become less sensitive to things. The driving snow is what drives him home to "you" (whoever that is) and yet he manages to not even be able to hear it. In other words, he has lost his ability to be sensitive to things and it is preventing him from reaching what he knows he loves. That's just my theory.