When Winter Comes Around

There's a leaf that returns in the fall That no one can recall When winter comes around Its shape once so clear in our mind In an instant left behind When the snow touches the ground Where did it go? Well, someone must know But no one makes a sound There's a leaf that returns in the fall That no one can recall When winter comes around There's a voice divides the plane Sends it back from where it came To the cradle of its birth Grief has consumed our eyes And filled our bed with lies Like soil fills the earth Abandoned, denied Like a dead man out of mind No one trails the hearse There's a voice divides the plane Sends it back from where it came To the cradle of its birth Go back from where you came Though you're bound to wake up again There's a sea so deep and wide It speaks from every side So all the sailors hear It's time to return to shore I can't hold you anymore But they come back every year Swallowed alive by a rising tide As if it wasn't clear There's a sea so deep and wide It speaks from every side So all the sailors hear Swallowed alive by a rising tide Their bodies wet and drowned There's a leaf that returns in the fall That no one can recall When winter comes around