Lyrics
The wind is cold where I live,
The weather is harsh and cold where the speaker lives.
The blizzard is my home,
The speaker considers a blizzard as their home, emphasizing a challenging and unforgiving environment.
Snow and ice and loaded dice, the Wizard lives alone,
Reference to a Wizard living alone, suggesting a solitary and perhaps mystical existence amidst hardships.
The wind is cold where I live, wild and cold, and clean,
Reiteration of the harsh coldness in the speaker's environment, emphasizing its wild and clean nature.
White and cold and bought and sold and heartbreak in between,
Describes the surroundings as both beautiful (white and cold) and harsh (bought and sold), with heartbreak in between.
And so we shall see what is done and done and done.
An anticipation of observing the consequences of actions, possibly acknowledging the inevitability of certain outcomes.
Trees are stone where I live, leaves of razor steel,
Depiction of trees as solid and unyielding, with leaves described as razor steel, highlighting the harshness of nature.
High and low and ice and snow, broken on the wheel,
Illustrates the brutality of the environment with references to high and low extremes and the concept of being broken on the wheel.
Trees are stone where I live, flowers made of glass,
Continuation of the portrayal of trees as unyielding, now with fragile flowers made of glass, juxtaposing strength and fragility.
Cold and white and wrong and right and voices from the past.
Contrasts elements of the environment as cold and white, wrong and right, with voices from the past influencing the present.
And all our yesterdays are now undone.
A reflection on the past, suggesting a sense of undoing or reversal of what has already occurred.
Out of the sun
The phrase "Out of the sun" signals a departure from warmth and light, possibly indicating a descent into a colder or darker existence.
Frozen and insane, I alone remain,
Expresses a state of being frozen and insane, with the speaker alone and holding onto disdain.
Held in the vice of my disdain,
Describes feeling trapped, possibly by negative emotions, represented as a vice.
There is now way that anyone will ever,
States a conviction that no one will be able to bring warmth or comfort to the speaker again.
Make me warm again.
Emphasizes the speaker's isolation and the seemingly irreversible nature of their emotional state.
Life is death where I live, frozen grin my smile,
Life is portrayed as death, with a frozen grin suggesting a grim acceptance or resignation.
Sun is moon and out of tune, broken strings and bile,
Describes a distorted reality where the sun is the moon and things are out of tune, symbolizing a dissonance or imbalance.
Death is life where I live, hearts turned into stone,
Conceptualizes death as life, with hearts turned into stone, possibly indicating emotional numbness or detachment.
Frozen breath, and froze death and prisons made of bone.
Imagery of frozen breath, froze death, and prisons made of bone, reinforcing the harsh and imprisoning nature of the speaker's existence.
And so we shall see what become's become,
Similar to line 6, expressing anticipation of witnessing the unfolding of consequences or outcomes.
Out of the sun.
Reiteration of the phrase "Out of the sun," possibly emphasizing the continued departure from warmth and light.
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