January Cold

Well you left your pages open On the table by the bed And your toothbrush on the counter And your song still in my head And your perfume on the pillow And a pain deep in my soul As I wonder where I've sent you In the January cold Well you left that sentence hanging In the dark above the bed Darling won't you please be patient Don't you leave me here for dead Well I left the window open While you smoked your cigarettes Those cold trails leaving omens In empty rings inside my head Would you have me out there with you In the January cold To spill out to the darkness All the warmth left in my soul And carry you for miles To your home Well we left those words unspoken As you parted to the bright Morning silence broken By the echoes from the night In my quiet hours and minutes In my days that live and die You left your image fading Bittersweetly from my mind And I know that you'll remember As our lives go gently by Like the world still holds the winter Before it melts into the sky And I know you'll forget me In time In time And I'll carry you here with me Through the January cold Keep a candle for the lover Who could see inside my soul And carry you for miles To my home And carry you for miles