Snow Cherries From France
I knew a boy who would
not share his bike
oh but he let me go sailing
I swore that I
could survive any storm
oh then he let me go
This man said that she could leave him and he would still love her."Can you Launch Rockets from here?"
Boy I've done it for years
right over my head
and when I promised my hand
he promised me back
Snow Cherries from France
Promising your hand is marrying someone and after they took their vows, he took off but the love is still as sweet as it was on their wedding day.all that summer
we traveled the world
never leaving his own back garden
This man traveled far away from her, but he knew that his safe place 'her back garden' was what he'd come home to.girls I didn't know
just what it could be
oh but he let me go sailing
you question me,
"Can you ride anything?"
Lord do you mean like your mood swings
I think the 'mood swings' is a reference to everything that you deal with in a marriage. When you are going to spend the rest of your life with someone, you learn and get used to all of their quirks.Invaders and Traders with
the best intentions
may convince you to go
"They look like Pirates from here"
Boy I've been one for years
just keeping my head
and when I promised my hand
you promised me back
Snow Cherries from France
and then one day he said
"Girl it's been nice,
oh but I have to go sailing"
with cinnamon lips
that did not match his eyes
oh then he let me go
Here's Tori's description of it:
"Then it was this morning and we were on our way to the airport, and on the road she sang me a song called Snow Cherries From France which hasn't been recorded yet and isn't on the new album but has to be recorded and go and live somewhere, because it's truly lovely."
-- Neil Gaiman, Journal Entry: Friday, May 31, 2002
Q: Snow Cherries From France is that about your husband, Mark?
T: Hmm yes it's about love. I usually don't tell what my lyrics are about. But it's one of those songs where the woman knows that the man will leave, but she chooses to be with him anyway.
Q: Are you saying that the man are going abroad but will return one day?
T: Maybe he will return but he's a restless soul and she knows what she's getting in to. He really doesn't promise her anything, except for Snow Cherries From France. But she's offering him her hand, that's what SHE promised.
-- Tori; "la musik" magazine, #6, 2003 (Swedish)
"I started writing this song in 1996 to '97. It's been a long time coming. I think it finally came together because I changed the narrator's point of view ever so slightly. That is, that she knew on some level that he was going to leave her. The previous angle was that she didn't think he would go. She came into it a lot more naive the first go 'round. And finally, once I kind of cracked who this woman was--how she thought, and how she felt--it came together. That is, that deep down, she knew he was a wanderer. And she took the risk anyway."
-- Tori; 'Women Who Rock' magazine 1/04
: Snow Cherries From France - Tori Amos
