Aimee Mann’s “Goose Snow Cone” was the first track released in advance of her album Mental Illness. Like much of the material on the album, the song is a midtempo acoustic ballad augmented with a string section— the arrangement sprung from Mann’s affinity for 1970s soft rock. The song was written...
[Verse 1]
Lookin' into the face of the goose snow cone
Should be shaking it loose but you do it alone
Every look is a truce and it's written in stone
[Chorus]
Gotta keep it together when your friends come by
Always checking the weather but they wanna know why
Even birds of a feather find it hard to fly
[Verse 2]
Thought I saw at my feet an origami crow
It was only the street hidden under the snow
Always snatching defeat, it's the devil I know
[Chorus]
Gotta keep it together when your friends come by
Always checking the weather but they wanna know why
Even birds of a feather find it hard to fly
[Verse 3]
Lookin' into the face of the goose snow cone
I could pick up the pace but I couldn't go on
I just wanted a place but I ended up gone
[Chorus]
Gotta keep it together when your friends come by
Always checking the weather but they wanna know why
Even birds of a feather find it hard to fly
[Outro]
Lookin' into the face of the goose snow cone
Goose Snow Cone was written by Aimee Mann.
Goose Snow Cone was produced by Paul Bryan.
Aimee Mann released Goose Snow Cone on Tue Jan 17 2017.
Goose Snow Cone was originally a temporary phrase Aimee Mann was using as a placeholder in the song; she’d been looking at Instagram and saw a fluffy white cat named Goose who resembled a snow cone. Mann, feeling homesick and thinking about one of her ill cats, began writing the song around the evoc...
In a Facebook update Mann described the song’s origins (plus offered insight into the making of the song’s video):
I wrote “Goose Snow Cone” when I was on tour in Ireland, on a cold and snowy day. I was feeling very homesick when I saw a picture on Instagram of a cat I know named Goose. Her fluffy...