Winter Prayers

Well it's cold and you're bored

From counting the Smart cars on 94

When you dream, you're back home

But the lakeside don't trust you to walk alone

Hollow trees talk offhand

All the neckties are toasting with empty cans

And you know why she's gone

Like the clothes in the river drifting on

Slide down south

Cause once in a while your confidence leaves you

Like smoke falls out her red mouth

Well she left you the holes

That tracks in the backyard December snow

But those sad souvenirs

They end at the fence line and disappear

Why'd you follow her there

Milwaukee's a deaf ear for winter prayers

There's no night, there's no day

With only hope in your pocket and hell to pay

Slide down south

When once in a while your confidence leaves you

Like smoke falls out her red mouth