Snowangels (5:37)

Don’t mind the roadkill
With the spiral t.v. eyes
Don’t worry baby
They’ve been dead for a long time
Still I’d lock the doors

See back in the day
When holidays revolved round
Cartoon characters
With a capitalist flair
That’s what kids became
Tonight the clicking handles
Sound just like the rain

Scraps of standard oil
Make a kind of new design
Just slip in cassettes
When the AP reads all wrong
Light a smoke and drive

Listening to jazz
With the windshield wipers on
And it dawns on me

We’re just snowangels, baby
Angels in the glow
It’s nuclear wintertime
And we’re snowangels

City limit signs
Become a part of the sky
Blur define serene
The gumball swirl behind us
Celebrates our speed
But getting rolled, kid
Really ain’t my kind of scene
Red and blue lights in rearview
Look like cool ice cream

Doc that Hancock signed
Is a testament of time
Don’t let light get lost
When the elements are gone
Blinded by the right

This mosaic of chaos
This magnificent parade
They say that’s all the low bands
Are good for nowadays
Something in the carrier
Sent them tumbling through the snow
Searching through the white for gold

Every mother knows
That the key to life thus goes:
Elasticity

And we’re snowangels, baby
Angels in the glow
It’s nuclear wintertime
And we’re snowangels

David R. Torrey [Mastering Engineer]

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The lyrics to Snowangels have successive verses of 29 syllables (5,7,5,7,5) and 41 syllables (5,7,5,7,5,7,5), which mimic the shape edge to circumscribing sphere radius of the octahedron.

The bass figure in the chorus plays the word “Snowangels” in morse code.

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David R. Torrey

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