1.
The Cure, “Cold” (Pornography, 1982) “I was cold as I mouthed the words and crawled across the mirror/I wait, await the next breath/Your name, like ice into my heart.”
2.
The Rolling Stones, “She’s So Cold” (Emotional Rescue, 1980) “I’m the burning bush, I’m the burning fire, I’m the bleeding volcano ... I’m so hot for her and she’s so cold.”
3.
Modest Mouse, “A Life of Arctic Sounds” (Building Nothing Out of Something, 2000) “As long as you’re gone, I can’t apologize for all the things that I haven’t said and done ... Hey all right, I might be goddamned/A life of arctic sounds.”
4.
The White Stripes, “In the Cold, Cold Night” (Elephant, 2003) “And I know that you feel it too/When my skin turns into glue/You will know that it’s warm inside/And you’ll come run to me in the cold, cold night.”
5.
The Ocean Blue, “Frigid Winter Days” (The Ocean Blue, 1989) “Professor John gives an exam/Try to pass it if you can/You know he’ll send you out to frigid winter days/Out with an F you go to frigid winter days.”
6.
Valhalla, “Wintry Dreams” (Winterbastard, 1999) “As a needle of sorrow the wolf’s howl pierced the silence of frozen forest/The raven cry answered him from the top of grim snowed fir.”
7.
The Arcade Fire, “Cold Wind” (Six Feet Under, Vol. 2: Everything Ends, 2005) “If you’re going to San Francisco, lay some flowers on the gravestone/There’s music on the station, but I’m just listening to cold wind whistling.”
8.
Bruce Springsteen, “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” (Born to Run, 1975) “From a tenement window a transistor blasts/Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast/She hit me with a Tenth Avenue freeze-out.”
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Snow Patrol with Hot Hot Heat. July 19, 8 p.m., $37. The Pearl, 474-4000.