The Limited Edition contains the 2 CD digibook version of SNOW with a 28 page four color booklet. It comes in a special box plus an extra BONUS disc with a cover song, live acoustic versions, and some outtakes and dialogue. Also a 4 page booklet with the story of SNOW and 3 stickers with the album cover of Snow, V, and Day For Night (all color).

SNOW
Just the Story

Some things happen for a reason. Some things happen by chance, but, chances are there's a reason for that too. Take for example the boy that was born John Sikeston who became the famous (or infamous depending on who you are) SNOW. People call him that because he has a slight Albino appearance and I believe it was his little sister who coined the nickname to torment him. But, as fate would have it, this little piece of torture stuck for life.

He was born in some nameless place in the midwest of America by hard working parents who were faithful church goers in the traditional sense. Which means it didn't really affect their hearts so much as was just one more thing they had to do, like going to work on Monday morning. Perhaps this accounts for Snow's unorthodox religious tendencies. Perhaps not.

So, he was raised by a working man in a working man's land. The only problem was he didn't blend. In a place where everyone was supposed to blend, he stood out like the only cloud in a cloudless sky. Poetic, isn't it? Well, he didn't feel very poetic. He felt uncom- fortable most of his childhood. Then, when he realized he had a special kind of a gift for seeing into peoples lives, he felt even MORE uncomfortable. And somehow he knew it would be frowned upon. Like how children automatically know that lying and other nasty things are wrong. He just knew. So he kept it a secret until he was a teenager. What a horrible thing to hide.

Well, we don't have all day, do we? So, I'll get on with it. At some point in his teenage years our hero had a spiritual experience (which shall be left to your own imagination) and left home for New York City. Where else? Isn't that where they all go? Another kid from Iowa or some place wandering around trying to find his way. This was in the days when it was a pretty smutty place. I understand they've cleaned it up now. Anyway, so there's this Albino kid walking around all goo-goo eyed, checking everything out with full childish innocence when this ugly black kid comes up to him and starts hassling him about coming into a strip joint. He seems to be enjoying himself as he's taunting the kid when the kid grabs his arm and something happens.

'You ain't no flea... look at you now... look at you now flea...'. The man says looking over the dead body. The body was beaten up so bad it was an IT. Unrecognizable. Then the man and his partner leave and there's a terrible silence. He's alone with IT. 'I'll never come out... I'll never come out... that's what I'll do... I ain't never comin' out'. The ugly black kid (who we'll call the Harlem Knight) stood there on the street repeating that for while when something else happened. He felt a kind of rushing love come over him. All in the same moment! You see, that was the kid's Dad whom he watched get beat to death on the living room floor of their Brooklyn apartment 15 years ago. Somehow through his touching this white haired freak boy, the nightmare that he'd been trying to out run all his life, now felt like it was... gone. No, not gone, but powerless. It's hard to describe these things. After that things move pretty quickly. Snow and the Knight start converting and healing other bad off people in the city. Junkies and whores and the like. Soon he has a street mission. He holds meetings in parks and wherever he can. His following grows at an astounding rate.

Now he's a big deal. He and the Knight create an organization called 'The Touch That Heals' organization or THO for short. Things go along all right for a while and then his ego begins to attack him. Right about the same time he falls for a girl who hates his guts. The irony of this guy who can see so much about people's lives and yet has no clue what's going on with the girl he loves does not escape many. When he touches her he sees his own downfall. He sees himself on the street, drunk, strung out and near death. This sends him over the edge. He spirals down, winds up homeless himself and the vision becomes true.

Then in the end his friends come and lift him up, bring him to a hospital and back to life. There's a lot more to it but we can't go into right now. Suffice to say, he winds up coming back to them and being renewed in the same way he renewed them. They walk off into the sunset leaving plenty of room for the sequel. That's the gist of it but there's more. We'll leave the rest to you...

01. Made Alive / Overture

NARRATOR:
From a world that's never ending
From a sky beyond the skies
A child is born
And love is made alive

Like a flaw that seeks perfection
With a will that will survive
A child is born
And love is made alive

Overture

INSTRUMENTAL

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02. Stranger In A Strange Land

NARRATOR:
Behold the boy - The stranger, the working man's son
With skin like white lightning
And eyes like two shots from a gun

They'll teach him to pray and work everyday
He'll learn how to sweat in the sun
But God has a place - A place for him in His plan
He won't be like his old man
He won't be made to crawl

His folks named him John
But everyone else called him Snow
With flesh bright as Sunday
And a face full of something unknown

Shunned as he grew, he finally withdrew
Asleep in a world all his own
Then he awoke like a child in the Promised Land
With barely the strength to stand
And tears in his eyes

He's a stranger in a strange land from a world far away
Like a savior in the wasteland with a high price to pay
He's a stranger in a strange land
And he can't find his way home

At seventeen years old he awoke from his world of gray
(He awoke to a time gone away)
With a gift ever-reaching and a calling he had to obey
(They watched as he left home one day)
They all looked on
While the prodigal son
Left the home of his father that day
Hit New York City with just the shirt on his back
With a tape deck and battery pack
And no turning back...

He's a stranger in a strange land from a world far away
Like a savior in the wasteland with a high price to pay
He's a stranger in a strange land
Stranger in a strange land

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03. Long Time Suffering

SNOW:
I never saw such a place in all my life
This is tomorrow's song
I think I've waited too long
Can't seem to see through the scraping of the sky
And now it seems so wrong
To think I spent such a...

Long time suffering and crying to the sky
Long time suffering and never knowing why

I have a gift that can see beyond the years
The touch so refined
I have transcended all time
My heart can reach through the secret well of tears
And when they all come out
Won't have to spend such a...

Long time suffering and crying to the sky
Long time suffering and never knowing why
The child awakening to a city in the sky
Spent such a long time suffering and never knowing why

I may be only seventeen but I see things
Look at the woman who's head keeps hangin' down
I cannot feel her hate I feel her needing
Some how I feel like I cannot let her down

I never saw such a place in all my life
This is tomorrow's song, I waited much too long
The change can come in a twinkling of an eye
The slave running free; the salmon floating downstream
The change can come in a twinkling of an eye
The slave running free, so why'd we spend such a

Long time suffering and crying to the sky
Long time suffering and never knowing why
The child awakening to a city in the sky
Spent such a long time suffering...

The change can come in a twinkling of an eye...

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04. Welcome To NYC

THE KNIGHT:
Hey, hey, hey - Welcome to New York City
We got the hottest girls and they'll do anything you want
Hey there whitey, so white you're kinda pretty
Why don't you come on in, depending on how much cash you got

I LIKE IT!
Look, boy, where you from?
I love ya now - Walk boy don't you run

It's hotter than the sun, walk, boy don't you run
You better get a gun, where you from Ohio or somethin'?
Don't you gimme the eye or my friends just might stop by
We'll have ourselves a time, you won't look so happy about it

I LIKE IT!
You better find your Mama to protect you now
You look like the wind might blow you down

I LIKE IT!
Don't touch me now
You better find your Mama to protect you now
She'll protect you now - She'll protect you now
She'll protect you now - Don't touch me now...

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05. Love Beyond Words

SNOW:
I see a boy who watched his father
Be beat to death right on the living room floor
As he watched through the door - You watched through the door

Now you're a young man filled with anger
You know your life on earth could mean so much more
Don't you know what it's for, I think you know what it's for

To love beyond words - (Love beyond all words) - Love beyond words

THE KNIGHT:
Now I somehow have understanding
Like I've never had before in my life
Do you know what that's like, I think you know what it's like

To love beyond words - (Love beyond all words) - Love beyond words
To love beyond words - (Love beyond all words) - Love beyond words
To love beyond words - (Love beyond all words) - Love beyond words

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06. The 39th Street Blues (I'm Sick)

THE PROSTITUTE:
Hey Snow White and the Harlem Knight
You make a perfect pair
Skin and bones and a hatchet faced homes
Hey, what you doin' 'round here
Why don't you go back to Central Park
Or stick around and see why love is art

In my sin I've sunk right in
I finally understood
Why all the geeks and the Catholic Priests
They love to do us good
Maybe you would like some at my cost?
Or maybe you and the white shadow should go get lost

'Cause I'm sick of pity and morphine
I'm sick of you runnin' me down
I'm sick but maybe there's something
That can still save me from the depths of this town

One more time I'll speak my mind
And then you'd better go
Before Sad Sam and the backdoor man
Make me wish I'd just said no
I might come to your meeting in the park
But now I've got to work it's getting dark

'Cause I'm sick of pity and morphine
I'm sick of you runnin' me down
I'm sick but maybe there's something
That can still save me - That can still save me

SNOW:
Come you worn out weak and tired
To this meeting in the dark of the night
And you'll walk in the light
Yes, you'll walk in the light

If you're addicted and afflicted
My name is Snow and I've the gift and the sight
And we'll make it alright
Yes, we'll make it alright

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07. Devil's Got My Throat

THE ADDICT:
Richy Rich got high on the high life
Ron the rage it raged into my life
The Dow Jones it took on new meaning
I'd pick my feet before every high-powered country club meeting

The Devil's got my throat
I'm goin' down that's all she wrote
The Devil's got my throat
I'm goin' down that's all she wrote

Oh my God! Look what's become of me!
My best friends a spider
My girlfriends a cardboard cut-out I stole from Circuit City

The Devil's got my throat
I'm goin' down that's all she wrote
The Devil's got my throat
I'm goin' down that's all she wrote

Moving forward in my mind
Moving forward in my mind

Alright that was fun now let's hit the skyline
I don't know what he's got but I know it ain't mine

The devil's got my throat
I'm goin' down that's all she wrote
I'm your cruel joke
I'm goin' down that's all she wrote
The devil's got my throat
I'm goin' down that's all she wrote

STREET PEOPLE:
We've heard this same kind of thing a million times
But this kid's a freak; the weirdest one this week
I hear that he has a gift well we shall see
The Albino Saint; I bet a jolt he ain't
I'm gonna go just to check the geek boy out
I hope it's not too long; I guess we can't go wrong
Who wants to go meet me in the park tonight
I hope it's not too long; I guess we can't go wrong
Who wants to go meet me in the park tonight...

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08. Open Wide The Flood Gates

SNOW:
Red forest green
As you stand at the waterfall
And there's no in between
You go back or you trust the fall

And the man says that'll be forty-five
And the best of your mind's crying 'take the dive'

Open wide the flood gates
And let love take your soul
Open wide the flood gates
'Til there's so much you overflow

Out of the blue
And into uncertainty
And since you are a child
You just want some kind of security

But the desert will always be hot and dry
Until the cool water comes rushing by

Open wide the flood gates
And let love fill your soul
Open wide the flood gates
'Til there's so much you overflow
Open wide the flood gates
Sprinkle this soul around
Open wide the flood gates

You spent your life running away
You run but you're not far away

Open wide the flood gates
And let love take your soul
Open wide the flood gates
'Til there's so much you overflow
Open wide the flood gates
Sprinkle this soul around
Open wide the flood gates
Let this Love come down
Open wide the flood gates

SNOW:
Open wide the flood gates - And let love move your soul
Open wide the flood gates - 'Til there's so much you overflow
Open wide the flood gates - Let it wash away the past
Open wide the flood gates - Man, you'll feel you're home at last
Open wide the flood gates - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

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09. Open The Gates - Part 2

SNOW AND COMPANY:
Open up the flood gates in your mind that you might be set free
Open up the windows left behind and stand in what could be
When something shifts the bulb will light and you may understand
Something beyond your sense of sight far from the world of man

(Glass is all breaking - Everything's changing NOW)

Open up the window feel the calm of the first cool breeze
Feel how the wind blows you can see the forest through the trees
When you flip the switch you may deny what you once held as true
All will be revealed; seek and you'll find that you can

Open up the flood line - we got separated by time
Lifting up the gate now - we got separated somehow
Let's come together now

Open up the flood gates and believe that all will come to pass
Release the dream and let your woodwinds be all turned to brass
When something shifts you may belie your former way of life
Don't you want to be out of your mind; come on and

Open up the flood line - we got separated by time
Lifting up the gate now - we got separated somehow
Let's come together now

Go before the gafe goes down when you hear the calling sound (I will go)
You will not be turned away bring your weakness with your strength (I will go)
Where the river meets the sea - Where the sky is holding me (I will go)
Love will be your ministry - Let it fly when you open up the flood line

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10. Solitary Soul

THE HOMELESS:
I've been here since long ago waiting for the end
I don't need to have a home but I could use a friend

So many people they don't give a damn
They look away when they see what I am
I've been like half a man but I could be whole
Won't you befriend this solitary soul

Got a lot of breezes left to blow
Where I'm going I don't know
Got a lot of heartache got a show
What it's like you'll never know
To be the solitary soul

I've been here since long ago buried in my tears
Feels like I've walked alone for a thousand years

So many people they don't give a damn
They look away when they see what I am
I've been like half a man but I could be whole
Won't you befriend this solitary soul

Got a lot of breezes left to blow
Where I'm going I don't know
Got a lot of heartache got a show
What it's like you'll never know

Got a lot of breezes left to blow
Where I'm going I don't know
Got a lot of heartache got a show
What it's like you'll never know
To be the solitary soul

SNOW AND COMPANY:
I see your heart
I know what you've been through
I know you
Come be a part
You know you belong here
So dry your tears because

Love beyond words - Can fill your heart
Love beyond words - You'll feel a part
Love beyond words - You won't be alone anymore

I see your heart
I know what you've been through
I know you
Come be a part
You know you belong here
So dry your tears because

Love beyond words - Can fill your heart
Love beyond words - You'll feel a part
Love beyond words - You won't be alone anymore

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11. Wind At My Back

THE HOMELESS:
How can you be
Like a sky stretched out before me
And the world is turning your way
Even darkness is better this way

Can it be true
That it all comes rushing from you
When my resistance is gone
And there's nothing that I can lean on

You are the wind at my back
You give what I lack
You're the jewel in my hand
You're like rain on dry land

You're the focus the beam
You're realities dream
You're the blue in my black
You're the wind at my back

All of the above
I'II have the lot for my love
And as we're becoming somehow
As we're changing the future to now

I just want to live
In the place that you have to give
I'll let the heat beat me down
Until the water comes down

You are the wind at my back
You give what I lack
You're the jewel in my hand
You're like rain on dry land

You're the focus the beam
You're realities dream
You're the blue in my black
You're the wind at my back

You are the wind at my back
You give what I lack
You're the jewel in my hand
You're like rain on dry land

And my soul has been kissed
Just because you exist
You're the dream that's a fact
You're the wind at my back

You're the wish that I make
You're the prize I might take
You're the gold that is free
You're the groom on one knee

You're the focus the beam
You're realities dream
You're the blue in my black
You're the wind at my back

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DISC 2

01. Second Overture
INSTRUMENTAL

02. 4th Of July

NARRATOR:
Another 4th of July
Another pie in the sky
Another man hears the call

Another snake in the grass
Another tire's been slashed
Another man takes the fall

And like a dream dressed in white
Fast as a trick of the light
You see the vision of every man

You've known it since you were small
Even before you could crawl
You had the vision of every man

Another 4th of July
Another shot hits the sky
Another man has to pay

We wish our boy would stay sane
We wish he'd change his name
But life just isn't that way

And like a dream dressed in white
Fast as a trick of the light
You see the vision of every man

You've known it since you were small
Even before you could crawl
You had the vision of every man

Another 4th of July
Another shot hits the sky
Another ego exalts the man

Another 4th of July
Another shot hits the sky
Another ego exalts the man

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03. I'm The Guy

THE EGO:
I'm the guy who lurks
In the heart of every man
I'm the creepy jerk
Dressed up like your dearest friend

I am Jonah's whale flying friendly sail
I'm the mind you're living in
I - I'm the guy

I'm the guy who thinks
Of the press and interviews
Like to walk a mile
In God's favorite running shoes

If you specify who has made you cry
Who can give the suicidal blues
I - I'm the guy

I'm the one you can't get free
I will always be
Like a wolf that's at your door
What your women wants is me
I'm the one she's waited for
She's waited for

I'm the one eyed jack
I'm the one you can't ignore
Just give me somethin' better than that
I'm the guy who wants more and more
and more and more and more

And then when I'm throu