Extreme north of the compa** December skies looked gray and joyless The world awaits in barren splendor For someone to stir the embers We are sinking into numbness Welcoming it like an old friend And my confidence is crumbling Like a house of cards again Is that the darkness you inhabit
Well it's a blanket 'round your shoulders All this vexing of the spirit Always wake up feeling colder so colder Like a friendship never nurtured Like a lover long forsaken Like a liar who can no longer tell When he's telling the truth or faking