Winter Count Lyrics

Tell me the word for winter Where you’re going Tell me the word for snow I woke up last night It was snowing There’s all these things I wonder if you know Just some things that I Could never tell you The way I walk around Like I was blind I guess it doesn’t matter I just wondered Maybe let me know If you get the time Tell me why you don’t Show up now in my dreaming Just that once and you So ragged I could cry Like a beggar Or a king in exile Laid out on the same bed Where you died It’s funny how you left The party early That never happened Even one time in your life How many nights did you ride The moon down singing Laughing smoking Until the morning light? I always think about That one time we were driving We crossed the river On a ferryboat at dawn Come up into the blood red Wheat of sunrise One coyote running And a shadow two miles long Tell me the word for winter Where you’re going Come to think It’s probably the same I don’t think you’ve gone Too far away but I miss you Every time I hear