A wintry scene for an equally wintry day, and continuing our creatural theme, a melancholy but beautiful number from the Glasgow band's second album of 1996, If You're Feeling Sinister. Here, in this song about the lonely, lost and aimless, Stuart Murdoch's distinct, sensitive voice and the rest of the band, including Isabel Campbell on cello before her solo career, at the time, as purveyors of pathos wistful songs, offered a far gentler and refreshing timbre during the brasher scene of so-called Britpop era of indie bands, and continue to do so with their latest EP.
Fox in the snow, where do you go
To find something you could eat?
Because the word out on the street is you are starving
Don't let yourself grow hungry now
Don't let yourself grow cold
Fox in the snow
Girl in the snow, where will you go
To find someone that will do?
To tell someone all the truth before it kills you
Listen to your crazy laugh
Before you hang a right
And disappear from sight
What do they know anyway?
You'll read it in a book
What do they know anyway?
You'll read it in a book tonight
Boy on the bike, what are you like
As you cycle round the town?
You're going up, you're going down
You're going nowhere
It's not as if they're paying you
It's not as if it's fun
At least not anymore
When your legs are black and blue
It's time to take a break
When your legs are black and blue
It's time to take a holiday
Kid in the snow, way to go
It only happens once a year
It only happens once a lifetime
Make the most of it
Second just to being born
Second to dying to
What else would you do? …
Fox in the snow …
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