Music and Lyrics by Alastair Moock ©1997 Moockshake Music
We are sitting in my bedroom and my bedside light is on
You are looking in my eyes and there is something there that’s gone
It’s early in the morning, just a moment’s space past dawn
But it’s late enough to realize that there’s clearly something wrong
And I can’t fix it even with this song
A cloud drifts past my window as I turn to say your name
And the motion makes me hesitate, distracted from my pain
And when I start to speak again, the cloud begins to snow
As these words come falling out and freezing wind begins to blow
And we’re caught in winter’s icy undertow
Chorus:
Let the wind take you where it goes
You can’t fight forever when those cold airs start to blow
Loneliness is everywhere like any child knows
And love turns into memories when rain turns into snow
I remember when we lay down on the grass under a tree
With a river running past us and the feeling we were free
The tree could barely hide the endless kiss of you and me
And the ground just started shaking from our electricity
Our kiss freed ions molecularly
But this coldness came between us now, we have to walk away
Even if we’re still not sure and even if we want to stay
Love is just a feeling that sometimes comes and goes
And rain is just a water that sometimes just gets froze
And walking keeps you healthy, I suppose
Chorus
Now I’m sitting on a snow drift with my wool hat in my hand
Waiting for a future that seems frigidly unplanned
Wondering if this winter cold will ever leave this land
Or if some off-duty god just left the weather room unmanned
If he can’t do his job he should be canned
I rise to catch a bus that’s traveling somewhere out of here
And I pay my fare in nickels and I sit down in the rear
The land starts moving backwards and the view goes drifting by
As my wakeness fades into the bus’s motor lullaby
And the wind blows on against the bus’s side
Oh, meet me by the ocean when the evening sun goes down
Hold me when the waves come up and let my memories drown
Let the sound of coldness fade away into the night
And let the rain come down on me under the sky’s starlight
And make it all seem real and all feel right
Make the starlight’s shine look extra bright
Then let it rain ’till rain has blurred my sight
And make me not feel lonely for tonight