Cold Expectations - Coat of Snow

from Home Fires Burning: A Holiday Compilation from Red on Red Records (EP) by Red on Red Records

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Songwriter Steve Prygoda says of this tune, "It’s a pseudo-holiday song. I wanted the lyrics for ‘Coat of Snow’ to capture the soft, almost tender-hearted feeling that arrives in the small pocket of days between Christmas and New Year’s. For some, it’s a week-long hangover as we await the next party; for others it’s a reflective time as everything winds down to a crawl, with the anticipation of a fresh new start at our doorstep. The year is basically over, but the new one’s not yet begun, so we’re all just sort of floating around."

lyrics

It’s hard to keep track of the past
We’re moving forward not looking back
A feather on my arm
A hand inside a hand
Raise your champagne glass

Wind the clock
But don’t say good night
As the band plays along to Auld Lang Syne
Save your tears
Or let ‘em roll
Whispering your secrets in the cold
Coat of snow

It’s hard to keep pace in the world
With a Christmas tree dying in your living room
Taped up to the door there are cards galore
And glitter falls to the floor

Phone me up
And talk me down
Put on your coat of snow and we’ll float all around
Broken mirrors
Flakes of gold
Only in my dreams I am at home
Coat of snow

We only hold what we know
We only know what we hold
Coat of snow
Not alone

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from Home Fires Burning: A Holiday Compilation from Red on Red Records (EP), track released November 5, 2021
Produced by David Minehan at Woolly Mammoth Sound, Waltham MA
Recorded and mixed by David Minehan, July 2021
Mastered by Dave Locke, jpmasters.com

Copyright © 2021. Written by S. Prygoda. Music performed by Cold Expectations

Cold Expectations are:
Steve Prygoda: Guitar, Synthesizer & Vocals
JoEllen Saunders Yannis: Bass & Vocals
Nancy Delaney: Drums & Sleigh Bells

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