Hunt like a wolf, run like a river

Put your hand on the chest of a heart that is beating

You lie in debt to a lover beholden

Trained on the paw of a singular union

Drive a hole through the mountain

Drive the car from the East to the Western ocean

Back to a time when a promise was more easily broken

These were the seeds of the terrible winter

Your mother was a wolf

And she said to you

"It's not just how you see it

But it's how you're gonna see it through

I know you want to give it up

But who you gonna give it to?"

Guilty like the sun out of the womb, into the ether

Feel the rain on your head and the tundra beneath ya

A sudden blow and nobody with a body can reach ya

A dog needs a bone, and that oughta teach ya

Your mother was a wolf

And she said to you

"I know you want to give it up

But who you gonna give it to?

And the love, the love that's incomplete

It's twice as bitter and half as sweet"

Guilty like a son

Guilty like the sun

The revel in your bones

The salt in your teeth

That bating of your breath

The ring in your ears

And it's clear

You're getting closer

To your fears

Hunt like a wolf, soon you are bleeding

Put your hand on the chest of a heart that is beating

You lie in debt to a lover beholden

These were the seeds of the terrible winter