From the recording So Many Acres of Snow
Wrote this after first moving to Japan, when feeling isolated on my Lone Cut Raw Fish Album, which referred both to the recording technique: me alone with one cut on every instrument, no revisions; and referred my emotional state, alone in a new country with a very raw feeling in my heart after cutting ties in Canada. The title is Voltaire's witty assessment of his visit to Canada in 1759 (Quelques arpent de neige). And one of the lines in the song comes fron Gille Vigneaut's song Mon Pays, C'est L'hiver (My Country is Winter) as well as Antoine Gerin-Lajoie's lyrics Un Canadien Errant (The Lost Canadian). The Spanish lines are a common latin immigrant complaint: There are only two seasons in Canada, winter and the train, playing on the Spanish word which is the same for both: estacione