XTC Snowman

From their 1982 album English Settlement

Lyrics:

It isn't even winter and I'm freezing, freezing,
This sort of feeling isn't pleasing,
And what I want to know, man,
why, oh why,
Does she treat me like a snowman?

She's been building me,
Up quite steadily,
Seems like I've been here years and years and years and years;
I wait patiently,
Froze in history,
All ice-water is tears and tears and tears and tears;

She treats me far too frosty,
This hanging on has cost me dear.

It isn't even winter and I'm shivering, shivering,
Waiting for the love that's not delivering,
What I want to know, man,
Why oh why,
Does she treat me like a snowman?

It seems you would say I was too soft-hearted,
If you made a dunce-cap I'd don it!
People will always be tempted to wipe their feet,
On anything with 'welcome' written on it.

It isn't even winter and I'm freezing, freezing,
And this sort of feeling isn't pleasing,
And what I want to know, man,
Why, oh why,
Does she treat me like a snowman?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• XTC
• Snowman
• English
• Settlement

[wkturn]

This song is brilliant, it makes me feel so damn good, music should do that, who needs drugs?

[4nom4ly]

This song can make the most depressed soul skip down the street while hearing it. And it's not even a happy song!

[junkshopcoyote]

@xnonsuchx Hah, I was just tweeting about how that's my all-time favorite lyric!

[AyoForYolo]

i remember hearing this in the womb :) the only time in my life where i was comfortable

[roba111111]

Forgot for a second it was never released as a single - should have been!

[roba111111]

Why oh why didn't this go to no 1 - they treat you far too frosty, far too frosty XTC.

[xnonsuchx]

"People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'Welcome' written on it."

[captainkundalini1]

Just like Andy Partridge to stick this at the end of a double album. Marvellous then. Even better now. God there songs age so well.

[08classicman]

I used to listen to these guys back in HS & my 1st year of college.

I don't think I've listened to them since.

Major flashbacks happening on my end

If only I had really LISTENED ... Ha!

[DrugStabbingTime]

@andreaprodan Right on!

[andreaprodan]

@DrugStabbingTime

more than solid, mate! Downright Sensual, magical and perfect!

[andreaprodan]

one of those great songs that accompany you through life, like a loyal friend.

So many years later, and it's still "Thanks XTC"!