"you make a perfect angel in the snow" is a comment on that while she (or whoever or whatever) maybe perfect in conceptual form (beautiful and original as a snowflake, fragile and delicate as an angel in the snow which eventually gets lost under more snow or melts) in reality is not perfect but a mold of that idea of perfection perhaps the person is lost in the idea of what they would like to be, trying so hard to fit some perfect mold just to belong somewhere;
The dynamic beauty of who you are being "crushed out" under all that "snow" whether that represents drugs or just other things we bury our true selves under
squeezing out the childlike innocence which snow angels could also represent
yet he loves the person or whatever "don't you know that i love you" Don't be afraid you can be yourself with me; i don't want a perfect illusion; i like the idea of perfect girl with untapped potential,but I LOVE the sad, dirty, hurt, scared, cold mess of a girl that you've become. I want you i love you, that's what i take from that line.
i kept thinking of plato the more i read into the lines which makes sense because elliot smith was a philosophy major
world of ideas, you know, ideas are greater than the physical manifestations
a detached distant depiction of a man (cold still life) in love with a detached distant depiction of a beautiful woman (angel in the snow)
"you make a perfect angel in the snow" is a comment on that while she (or whoever or whatever) maybe perfect in conceptual form (beautiful and original as a snowflake, fragile and delicate as an angel in the snow which eventually gets lost under more snow or melts) in reality is not perfect but a mold of that idea of perfection perhaps the person is lost in the idea of what they would like to be, trying so hard to fit some perfect mold just to belong somewhere;
The dynamic beauty of who you are being "crushed out" under all that "snow" whether that represents drugs or just other things we bury our true selves under squeezing out the childlike innocence which snow angels could also represent
yet he loves the person or whatever "don't you know that i love you" Don't be afraid you can be yourself with me; i don't want a perfect illusion; i like the idea of perfect girl with untapped potential,but I LOVE the sad, dirty, hurt, scared, cold mess of a girl that you've become. I want you i love you, that's what i take from that line.
i kept thinking of plato the more i read into the lines which makes sense because elliot smith was a philosophy major
world of ideas, you know, ideas are greater than the physical manifestations
a detached distant depiction of a man (cold still life) in love with a detached distant depiction of a beautiful woman (angel in the snow)
phewwww sorry so long.....