winter -- tori amos

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 "Your must learn to stand up for yourself  Cause I can't always 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 of me

I always wanted that myself

(**)                                                                         (sing365.com) 

Amos explained this song concerning thoughts about her father and failed aspirations to Rolling Stone: Said Amos: "The 'White Horses' are your dreams. That doesn't really say it. Opportunities? Roads that you thought you would go down and haven't experienced, and all these potential experiences are gone now. Those doors are closed. And imagination - the belief that your imagination can take you to places. The magical world having gone from your world, which to me there's nothing more painful than that - when you can't access your magical world. There was a moment when I thought I was too young to not be able to access that anymore. But I've noticed over the years that a lot of teenagers feel locked out of that world. They don't know how to get back anymore because in trying to become an adult you feel like you have to circumcise the magical world."                                                                                    (songfacts.com)

               

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