Warm Me, Winter

Keep me waiting
Keep me wondering
For a while now
If I'll make it
Let me flounder in all the time I waste

Leave me pacing
Leave me groaning
Cross the floors I'll
Lay here moaning just
Give me up to all I could find and face

But warm me, winter
And keep me off the shelf
And choke what's bitter
In haggard strains of felt

Just hold me, winter
And leave me in your wealth
And take what's bitter
Oh, keep what's drained in health

All the freckles
On my fair skin
All my life I've tried to hid them
But I don't think that they'll fully go away

Take these summers
And the cold days
Take my boredom
Know my old days
Are leading me to song of such solemn pace

But warm me, winter
And keep me off the shelf
And choke what's bitter
In haggard strains of felt

Just hold me, winter
And leave me in your wealth
And take what's bitter
And keep what's drained in health