I like that the girl in the song takes what is happening and makes it her power and not herself a victim!

I like that the girl in the song takes what is happening and makes it her power and not herself a victim

@arcadiaberger9204

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely choice. Beautiful.

Lyrics are a tiny bit different from what I learned...um...40 years ago... But still a favorite.

'A changeling of the snow'! Powerful image. SyFy channel should really tune in to some Filk music and get a clue. I can see a cool made-for-TV movie in this song.

@arcadiaberger9204

Жыл бұрын

That's a beautiful idea. Or even music videos based on filk songs. Animated videos based on "Freedom of the Snow", "Digwell Carol", "Dawson's Christian", "Some Kind of Hero", "Rhododendron Honey" . . . .

@WeligWeadhyll

8 ай бұрын

​@arcadiaberger9204 Though I don't have the time or experience to properly animate this and other Filk songs at the moment, I plan on doing them sometime. They have so much potential.

Interesting that I first heard this song in February 2021 in Texas when the blizzard shut the state down. Invest in wind turbines they said; uh, the wind turbines are frozen. It’s after 8:00 PM Tuesday, no electricity since 2:00 AM Monday. I’m warm, fed, and nursing a bottle of Jim Beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon sitting here wondering where has freedom gone. Then I hear this song.

anyway I can get a dub of "Blue Bread Mold" ? My tape destructed & I cant recover that one song. Dave

@arcadiaberger9204

Жыл бұрын

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@WeligWeadhyll

8 ай бұрын

The whole album is here on YT. "Firestorm Leslie Fish" should bring it up.

Sadly, this song is riddled with plot holes and logical problems. For only the most obvious, how can fuel lines freeze? Any temperature low enough that oil can't vaporize would kill the girls regardless of insulation. And where did the junkie come from if their finishing school's so remote that it takes days or weeks for a snowplow to clear a path to them?

@GnarledStaff

6 жыл бұрын

LadyDeirdre No fixing the freezing gas line- though if the power went out the heat may have shut off for a different reason. Some places where it is warm do not have sufficient snowplows to deal with actual blizzards. This could have been on a small college campus a mile from town. Actually, the idea that snowplows could clear the snow actually implies that the imagery is mostly exaggerated from the point of view of someone not having to deal with such things or fend for herself much. The narrator seems to remember this as a great life event when in reality they were probably overreacting to a 24-48 hour power outage. I don’t remember her mentioning any adults/faculty (or whether she was college age) so this could have been a bunch of middle-schoolers living in a separate dorm on school grounds. Not sure where they got the ax though.

@LadyDeirdre

6 жыл бұрын

The axe is one thing that doesn't puzzle me: fire axes are extremely common up here, even in the high-priced private school where I once worked. It would be far more surprising to me if the emergency supply lockers didn't include one or two. Though I do like the idea that the narrator is vastly overreacting to an objectively fairly minor occurrence, I get the distinct impression that the narrator is at the least in her late teens, perhaps early twenties: she's old enough to gossip about dates and boyfriends, and to have the physical development to trim the limbs from a fallen tree for an indeterminate period and still swing an axe with lethal force. Perhaps because I'm both from a very upper-class background and from western Canada, I imagine this taking place at a boarding/finishing school somewhere up in the mountains, probably in upstate New York since Leslie Fish is American. Because our population is so small relative to the size of the country, "beyond all reach of law" to me means at least 40km/25 miles from the nearest RCMP detachment. "Isolated" doesn't mean the same thing in most of Canada as it does in most of the US, not when you can drive a day away from any of the provincial capitals and be a good three hours' drive from the nearest settlement.

@lilymoncat

5 жыл бұрын

Speaking as someone who lived only a few miles from two different towns and spent 3 days with no light or heat because of a major blizzard, if the electric went down as the song says then the lines 'froze' because of a lack of power. As for the junkie, it's amazing what some of those drugs will make people do or disregard. And if the town/towns nearby only had one or two snowplows then a major blizzard can indeed leave people stranded days or weeks as they focus on major areas first. The nearest city to where I live has at least one storm every couple of years that leaves people stranded for the better part of a week because the plows can't clear the snow fast enough.

@Raffiki7521

5 жыл бұрын

Fuel lines could refer to heating OIL, which most assuredly does gel ( granted, that isn't exactly 'freeze', but same effect) and after the first time it happened to me in my first house, I made sure the heating tape on the fuel line worked late fall of each year. Hard to calculate how much kerosene to add ahead of time.

@gnaskar

4 жыл бұрын

It's about a bunch of kids imagining a snowstorm as the end of the world and their new lives after the end. None of the stuff is actually happening. "We dreamed about this story as we camped around the fire."