“Snow Hill” is a song about the council estate of the same name in Bath where Curt Smith grew up, and his childhood there.
Smith has said of his childhood,
[Roland Orzabal and I] both grew up primarily with our mothers because our fathers were absent. [My childhood] was spent growing up on a counc...
Slow days in restless rooms
A constant stream of girls in green
Toy guns for action men
On news at ten
Cool-handed candied lies
The abstract thoughts
Of adolescent minds
School plays and tribal wars
United scores
Snow hill inclined
Watch the rain fall across the rooftops
Innocent wild
Dream my days away
Skin deep and snowball sweet
Swings and slides
A hundred count to hide
Black sheep my soul to keep
My soul to find
Snow hill inclined
Watch the rain fall across the rooftops
Innocent wild
Dream my days away
Black sheep my soul to keep
My soul to find
Snow hill inclined
Watch the rain fall across the rooftops
Innocent wild
Dream my days away
Snow hill inclined
Watch the rain fall across the rooftops
Innocent wild
Dream my days away
Black sheep my soul to keep
My soul to find
Snow Hill was written by Charlton Pettus & Curt Smith.
Snow Hill was produced by Curt Smith.