This song echoes with allusions to poverty and death, both financial and spiritual, juxtaposed with allusions to life. The “Black Snow” seems to symbolize the content of a person’s soul or inner world, and also the hardship of a person’s life as their energy is wasted on mundane and useless things, eventually leading to poverty in finances and in spirit.

Aesop uses weather, including the snow, as a device to describe the clarity (or lack thereof) in a person’s life, and possibly, of today’s zeitgeist. He highlights both the beauty of life and its pitfalls, notably modern, and speaks to a character that never “spreads their wings” and ultimately destroys their own dreams. Aesop’s last verse is his vocal condemnation, spiritual fight, and triumph over this darkened character – both in himself and in his audience.

His final line in the song- “see you in the morn, the forecast ain’t right” – is spoken to the back of the crowd (the furthest, hence, the lost) and alludes to that character of darkness not yet conquered within them.