Winter

Something died this year in my eyes And in the eyes of all my friends I can't tell what, if anything Can bring back again Cold winter, oiled sea A taste of death in paradise, we see In the winter Something's rotten in our lives In the life of our descent It's clear to me, you'll see Nothing pure survives the end The end of times that we've known Smell soiled earth Where nothing grows In the winter Something's spoiled The well's run dry What used to blur Now won't blend The snakes comes in different colors But not the skin they shed Absent minds dream of flight In comes the tide Out goes the light In the winter The long cold, lonely winter