Cold Winter Lyrics

Wolves are running through the woods again

How fast the time in the sun does go

And the world is ruled by the sticky men

Darker than the bottom of the river's flow

Flocks of ravens fill the sky

Spinning through the air like the falling leaves

As I sit here and I wonder why

And I watch the summer as it fades from me

I shiver as I watch the sun go down

And not just because of the cold wind's blow

When I think of watchin' the sun go down

And I've watched it so many times before

My hands are knotted and gnarled and lined

Deeper than the bark on the darkening trees

As I sit here and I wonder why

And I watch the summer as it fades from me

Ready or not now, here we go

Far from the lands that we knew before

Hardly even time to say goodbye

Whisper your prayers and close your eyes

It's gonna be a long cold winter this time

In the sunshine once I knew a girl

She said that she would be true and stay

But like the leaves and the birds and the sun

The tide of time took her far away

I'm all alone now under the stars

I listen to the sky sing a mystery

As I sit here and I wonder why

And I watch the summer as it fades from me

Ready or not now, here we go

Far from the lands that we knew before

Hardly even time to say goodbye

Whisper your prayers and close your eyes

Gonna be a long cold winter

Gonna be a long cold winter

Gonna be a long cold winter this time