January Lyrics

I can't take the heat

So I'll stay out of the kitchen

You like the games you brought to play

So I should just sit down and quit my bitchin

Love pulls up in the dark

Slips its tendrils in my veins

Normally I'd take another hit

But right now I cannot maintain

The nagging threat of hope

An itching in the ear

When so much proves the opposite

I must've been asleep the past few years

You can't make me stay here

No you can't make me stay here

I can't take the cold

So I'll stay out of the winter

I'll stay inside and watch my friends get better

While I'm only getting bitter

Three sets of prints in the snow

Two aching feet and a cane

Everyone else seems to get by fine through it all

And I've learned to live with the pain

You can't make me stay here

No you can't make me stay here

Not this month

Not the next

Not with your sun-scorched hands on my neck

I am going

Already gone

January, whose side are you on

Something wicked is coming

And I won't be there to meet it

As the new year bubbles up from the corpse of the last one

I will raise my sword to defeat it

You can't make me stay here

No you can't make me stay here