Tell me the word for winter
Where you're going
Tell me the word for snow
I woke up last night
It was snowing
There's all these things
I wonder if you know
Just some things that I
Could never tell you
The way I walk around
Like I was blind
I guess it doesn't matter
I just wondered
Maybe let me know
If you get the time
Tell me why you don't
Show up now in my dreaming
Just that once and you
So ragged I could cry
Like a beggar
Or a king in exile
Laid out on the same bed
Where you died
It's funny how you left
The party early
That never happened
Even one time in your life
How many nights did you ride
The moon down singing
Laughing smoking
Until the morning light?
I always think about
That one time we were driving
We crossed the river
On a ferryboat at dawn
Come up into the blood red
Wheat of sunrise
One coyote running
And a shadown two miles long
Tell me the word for winter
Where you're going
Come to think
It's probably the same
I don't think you've gone
Too far away but I miss you
Every time I hear your name"