Lyrics

House of Snow

You took pictures of the sky at night
Winking eyes were streaks of light
By a northern riverside
Moonlight over river wide
Spring comes rushing through
Everytime that I’m with you
Floating down the Rogue
A world of green and gold

I have been seeing only winter scenes
Snow on late night TV screens
Tire tracks of our routines
Your arms around me in my dreams
Build us a house of snow
And promise not to go
Till it flies up in the breeze
Or melts into spring’s streams

We have sewn together lonely pasts
And finally smashed the hour glass
Sealed our lips about the war
That once was worth dying for
Won’t you lay me down
Lay with me on this cold ground
Under canvas eaves
And a thousand tiny moon beams

Build us a house of snow
And promise not to go.