Winter Solstice
mewithoutYou
Letra

[Verse 1]

                             
Winter solstice, the earth open wide
                                       
with a heart crushed like footsteps in snow
                                    
(((fictitious persons disclaimers implied
                                 
to all listening from rooftops below)))
                                   
it had rained and the air was like perfume outside
                     
as the sky changed

[Verse 2]

                                
we began when the ground was still dry
                                         
planting vineyards where vineyards don’t grow
                                   
shaping cypress with pitch on both sides
                                       
for the nights when our trumpets won’t blow
                                      
that regret still there circling like vultures inside
                       
as your face changed?

[pre-chorus]
                        
They don’t stay inside.
(there but for Thy grace go I...)

[Chorus 1]

                                               
through the eyes of machines we viewed immaculate scenes
         
that had already passed me by
                                           
all the stars on the ground, Noah’s ark in the clouds
    
set sail in the flood of my mind,
                                      
the other animals drowned in blasphemous towns
    
and asked as they passed me by
                                         
“was to do as I please a European disease?”

[Verse 3]

                             
Winter solstice, the earth had closed down
                                     
So with breastplates of righteousness low
                                      
Searched for streams in the caves underground
                                 
Where the Baptists and bootleggers go
                                    
And you smile but your vampire complexion still shows
                     
And your past shows

[pre-chorus]
                     
It’s really all that shows
(so often unrecognizably so)

[Chorus 2]

                                         
Through the eyes of machines immaculate scenes
           
That had already passed me by
                                              
All the stars on the ground, Noah’s ark in the clouds
          
But the thought in the back of my mind:
                                   
“does my misery feed a metaphysical need
        
That’s long since passed me by
                 
Neither reasoning why
                   
Nor offering reply?”

[Bridge]

   

                
(Neither reasoning why
                  
 Nor offering reply)

[Outro]

               
Dear my newlywed wife
                         
You’re not the love of my life
       
It had already passed me by---
                   
Finally grasping the line
                     
Casting pearls before swine?