Had the blues, wrote a song

[Cornflake]

I sit down in a chair
I pick up my guitar
I try to take it someplace new
It doesn’t want to go
It plays some tired notes
I guess its wilder days are through

And now the snowman’s knocking
The snowman’s knocking
The snowman’s knocking on my door
Used to be he didn’t
Come around that much
But now I hear him more and more

The price of gas is up
Housing sales are down
By the way the war drags on
The weather channel says
There’ll be chilly days ahead
The golden days have come and gone

And now the snowman’s knocking
The snowman’s knocking
The snowman’s knocking on my door
Used to be he didn’t
Come around that much
But now I hear him more and more

The house was busy once
With laughing and with talk
The sounds of living filled the air
I can’t recall ‘em now
I guess they had to go
Of course they didn’t tell me where

And now the snowman’s knocking
The snowman’s knocking
The snowman’s knocking on my door
Used to be he didn’t
Come around that much
But now I hear him more and more

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i really like it. simple, strong and gets the point across. the rhyming scheme is a little strange, but it works. i'd like to hear it played. the only thing is i'm not sure who the snowman is. is it just a personification of the cold (which doesn't seem likely, given your hatred of anthropomorphising stuff), or is it an actual snowman?

hope you get over those blues of yours.

[Cornflake]

Hey, I never said I was consistent. I do anthropomorphize sometimes.

I think you're right that the image is too cryptic. There's no real prose equivalent for what it was supposed to evoke--the encroachment of cold, life leaking away. Originally it was "the blues come knocking" but that made the song sound like another white guy pretending he was from the delta. Maybe I'll see what else might be knocking.

The blues have passed. I don't get them very often.

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good to hear. you could substitute "snowman" with "winter". it might make it less cryptic, as you put it. that's what i'd do, but it's not necessarily correct to do so.