Winter Ghosts

By the window up in the bedroom

I can hear the storm come

From many roads away

And it brings the night

If the ones who died sit around me

I hope they're going to stay

And that maybe you'll arrive

In the rain that's rolling in

These summer nights

I feel you on my skin

Winter came as a load

Frozen down to the bone

I lived here half asleep

Walking nights to the road

Empty, drunk and alone

In hopes you'd come to me

Before the morning

Before you're running

But why are you running?

Where are you running?

Home?

Once I knew you

Lay my head upon your lap

Once I knew you

In your eyes a calming light

Once I knew you

And your hand upon my back

Once I knew you

In a life ain't coming back