Demo
"Snow Day" (Universal version)
Recorded in 2009 by Roger Gunnarsson

This is quite funny one I think. As I wrote before I became a writer for Universal in 2008, following the "success" of Sally Shapiro covering some of my Nixon songs. I did my best to deliver songs to various artists and projects but it was a frame that didn't fit me very well. 
So I took the advice from the A&R who said that I was at my best when I wrote songs with no purpose. Like the Nixon covers Sally did. So I did a few attempts to cover my own songs in more...commercial manners. This piano ballad version of Snow Day is ridiculous I know, and nothing ever happened to it, but it's fun to me at least because it reminds of a really weird period in my songwriting life.

SNOW DAY
Words and Music: Roger Gunnarsson 2003

I've been thinking about quitting
Applauses don't rock my world anymore
and maybe I've had my last encore

I've had the fear of dying
Afraid of never growing old
Afraid of getting old too soon

But you made my grey skies so wonderfully blue
I think I know you like no one else does
There's nothing better than the chemistry between us

It was a Snow Day
and I got carried away by your beautiful eyes
It was a Snow Day
and the snow reflected the gas station lights
(Think of the times when you're lonely and blue)
It was a Snow Day
I only thought about you

Sometimes I think about leaving
Dreaming of doing something new
There must be hundred things to do

When you took my hand on that first winter's day
I think I'll frame this moment in time
I stay in love and I will never change my mind

It was a Snow Day
and I got carried away by your beautiful eyes
It was a Snow Day
and the snow reflected the gas station lights
(Think of the times when you're lonely and blue)
It was a Snow Day
I only thought about you

Snow Day (Universal Version)[2009]

Here's where I put up songs that never happened elsewhere. Songs recorded from the 90s to 10s. Some unreleased Nixon tracks, some demos made for others, some songs that just didn't get finished.

Snow Day (Universal Version)[2009]

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