Winter Windows

There is a man inside

A room in the forest

He sits alone upon

The chair his father left him

In the dark, in the dark, in the dark

With the radio on

The voice crackles

As it says that god will save you

He will take you from

The lonely life you're living

If you give up, if you give up, if you give up

The mans stands and

Pours himself another bourbon

He stops and watches

The birds through the winter windows

And the light, and the light, and the light

From the morning dew

"I thought I'd love you

And our love would be forever

How could I hit you

The only one who ever loved me?"

Said the man, said the man, said the man

To his shadow

This is the world

This is the world we live in

It's not the one I'd choose

But it's the one we're given

This is the world

This is the world we live in

And it's through winter windows

That ends become beginnings

As a boy

He was taught he was the bad one

Ones the good

He's the other

The protector

He will walk, he will walk, he will walk

Into the river

Sixty years

Held down by his brother

Ten years

With the ghost of his father

And five years since he spoke, since he spoke

To his only son

This is the world

This is the world we live in

It's not the one I'd choose

But it's the one we're given

This is the world

This is the world we live in

But it's through winter windows

That ends become beginnings.