Crinan Wood

Well, it was cold, you hid your hands inside your sleeves
And as we walked I heard the laughter in the leaves
See the shadows lying now where once we stood
And I would lie down with them if I only could.

The music came to me, it came across the sound
And how you laughed and shone and danced a circle around
As we walked away, I saw a shadow on the ground
There were stones inside my pockets that we found.

When I was younger, I heard angels on the roof
A thousand voices singing, each note was the truth
All the wires and light, I left them in my youth
And I have only just my memory for proof.

See a doorway open on a darkened room
While in the garden, thread lies broken on the loom
See your face that's smiling flicker on the wall
And in the distance, mountains waiting for the fall.

See these knots around my hands, around my feet
They would take me down my end for me to meet
And I grow weary of this struggle and this fight
The morning's so far off from out here in the night.

The night is cold and you must leave me, this I know
And empty all the places where we used to go
Before I knew you, I went climbing in the snow
And called your name out to the darkness down below.