Erasure Songs - Blood On The Snow Lyrics

Erasure - Blood On The Snow

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Album: Snow Globe
Released: 2013

Blood On The Snow Lyrics

Blood On The Snow of winter
Back are the eyes of coal
Glittery leaves a splinter
Spinning a flake of gold
Melt away with my heart
Blow it into the ash
Buried deep in the heart of the ballerina star

Star don’t lose your shine
Be sure to light the way
Your essence is divine
For these three gifts we bring
It’s only a small offering of time

Spreading out like a blanket
For our tiny souls to keep
Sparkling pins and needles
Piercing a stream so deep

Well away in my dream
Is my heart made of tin?
Melt it into a drop
Frozen particles of ice

Star don’t lose your shine
Be sure to light the way
Your essence is divine
For these three gifts we bring
It’s only a small offering of time

Ooooooooo
Ahhhhhhhh
Aaahhhhhhh
Aaahhhhhhhooooo

Star don’t lose your shine
Be sure to light the way
Your essence is divine
For these three gifts we bring
It’s only a small offering of time

Writer/s: BELL, ANDY / CLARKE, VINCE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Blood On The Snow

This is a track from Erasure's first holiday themed album, Snow Globe. The pair resisted the idea of a festive record until they could devise a unique approach. "Everything about Christmas has been written already," said Erasure's keyboardist Vince Clarke . "We thought it would be more interesting to look into the darker side of the season. For a lot of people, Christmas is not a happy time."

This song finds Andy Bell singing of dark imagery concerning coal, ash and blood, before giving way to the hope of a bright guiding star and three humble gifts. "'Blood on the Snow' was just another sound that kind of came to me really early, probably 3 o'clock in the morning," he explained to The Hollywood Reporter . "I just sang the song into the iPhone -- all the words just came out. I thought afterwards that it was based on the little tin solder story [i.e. Hans Christian Anderson's The Steadfast Tin Soldier]. ... We also tried to capture the essence and innocence of Christmases past, like those old black-and-white movies, It's a Wonderful Life and the original Miracle on 34th St."