Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: piano
Song Meaning of “Snow Cherries From France” by Tori Amos
‘Snow Cherries From France’ by Tori Amos is a metaphor about managing expectations and using romance as a form of protection from disappointment. The heavily romanticized vision of France in the song as the land of promises and love act as a refuge for the speaker from reality and its disappointments. She offers snow cherries, a symbol of her hopes, to the person she loves despite recognizing the truth that the hope of her love is in vain.
The song speaks to the struggle to reconcile the reality of life with the hopes and expectations that we set for ourselves and for our relationships. Though the speaker is still searching for solace from the disappointment that persists in her life, she recognizes that sometimes the dream of love is the only thing that keeps us going in life. In the end, she clings to her romantic visions of snow cherries as a fragile reminder of the potential for love and beauty in life.