A Snowball's Chance in Hell

Fall of my senior year at Whitefish High School (1997) I somehow ended up going to the homecoming dance with the homecoming queen, a smart feminist soccer star who got along with just about everybody. My infatuation with her inspired the melody, first verse and chorus to this song. I recorded the melody on guitar and entered it in the school songwriting competition. I received first place, but only because my brilliant composer friend Eddie submitted sheet music for one song and a recording of another. (In any case I guess I could sell myself as an “award winning songwriter”). Two years later a different young woman prompted me to write the other verses. Nothing happened with either of them and I told them about it later: “So this songs about you but it’s also about another woman...”

Darling you voice is a ringing in my ears
and your image is stuck within my sight.
Try though I may to get you off my mind
I keep thinking of you day and night.

And though I know I've got a snowball's chance in Hell
Still thought I'd take the time and tell you how I feel.

When I'm with you all my sorrows fade away
a burden is lifted, I am free.
Just want to find a quiet gentle place,
spend hours there together you and me.

And though I know I've got a snowball's chance in Hell
Still thought I'd take the time tell you what you mean to me.

Come now my dear let me hold you in my arms
and whisper my words of love so true.
Of beauty and of oneness and of perfect harmony
of all the things I dream for me and you

And though I know I've got a snowball's chance in Hell
Still thought I'd take the time and give it my best shot.

Thinking of you makes me soar so very high
looking downwards it's a long and brutal fall.
But my heart it tells me I gotta seize the day
and I'm more than willing to risk it all.

And though I know I've got a snowball's chance in Hell
Still thought I'd take the time and say that I love you.