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Medium-sized singer songwriter. Likes beer, motorbikes and jelly babies.
Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #582
Peak in subgenre #124
Author
Gray Hawke
Rights
Gray Hawke
Uploaded
May 26, 2012
Track Files
MP3
MP3 6.9 MB • 128 kbps • 7:34
Story behind the song
This has been rattling round my head for a few years in several incarnations - short story, novella, epic poem as well as this song...
Lyrics
By the fifth day of the blizzard there was no way out of town
All the water pipes were solid all the power lines were down
All the phones and televisions were as silent as a tomb
Not a single human signal entered to ... the frozen womb
There were snowmen in the gardens there were snowgirls in the park
There were snowcats in the alleys but the snowdogs didn’t bark
And the blizzard never faltered there was snow on every breeze
Making snowboys in the playgrounds and snowbirds … in the trees.
When the end of the world came to Shropshire
When Gordon Perry met himself he thought it was a prank
Some kids had made him out of snow - right outside the bank
Amazed at all the effort made to capture him in life
He turned and met the snow twin of Gordon … Perry’s wife
He found Gordon Perry’s children, he found Mrs Barrett’s dog
All fashioned from the crystals falling from the freezing fog
And rising in his fear he stamped on one of Kenny’s hens
But when he looked that icebird was entirely … formed again
When the end of the world came to Shropshire
The first to slip away was Annie Baxter’s oldest cat
Already he was sickly and the cold took care of that
He died on Annie’s lap, her bony hand upon his head
And a snowcat in his image went and hid … behind her shed.
John Morrison had been hoping he could climb over the snow
That banked up fifty feet where New Street used to go
And as people burned their tables in their struggle not to die
John Morrison the snowman found a fire … inside his eye
When the end of the world came to Shropshire
As the freezing and starvation took their toll upon the town
The dead were simply left outside upon the frozen ground
But for every mortal passing as the fearful days played out
An icy crystal creature came to life … and looked about
John Morrison the snowman met with Gordon Perry’s wife
He thought she looked much nicer than she had in real life
And Annie Baxter’s cat was chasing one of Kenny’s hens
Delighted to be able just to run … and jump again
When the end of the world came to Shropshire.
There were prayers and much repentance but the weather stayed the same
There were fires built as signals but no rescue ever came
All worshippers and heathens faced the same and certain hell
Every consciousness would transfer to a cold and icy shell
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When the end of the world came to Shropshire.
Soon the warmbloods were outnumbered and the icefolk grew more bold
Every statue brought to life was coldly welcomed to the fold
Many humans took the choice to fall asleep beside their twin
To wait until the rapture of the moment they… were born again.
After thirty days of blizzard there was no town left to see
And the snow had reached the steeple and had buried every tree
The icefolk needed nothing to sustain them in their lives
Just a few degrees of frost and tiny fires… inside their eyes.
When the end of the world came to Shropshire. x2
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