Frozen Evening

The rain learns my window first

Autumn waits at

the door (ahhhh)

First rain on the stairwell

Cold hands on the rail

The evening holds my body

Like a coat gone stiff and pale

Here, life keeps arriving With the same grey weight

I breathe through the weather

And learn to move late (ahhhh)

Autumn is coming in slow

Rain on the glass,

cold in my bones

Life here falls the same way down Soft but heavy,

all around I stay level,

I stay near

Let the season cover what I feel (ooh)

The courtyards smell like iron

Wet leaves by the gate

My shoulders turn to stone now Before the day gets late

Not only from the weather

Not only from the air

The news under my collar

Keeps tightening there (oh

no)

Autumn is coming in slow

Rain on the glass,

cold in my bones

Life here falls the same way down Soft but heavy,

all around I stay level,

I stay near

Let the season cover what I feel

(ooh, ahhhh)

By evening I close inward

A room inside a room

The cold and all that happened

Settle where I move

If morning comes in silver

I will not ask for proof

I will stand in the doorway

And let the rain pass through (ahhhh)

Autumn is coming in slow

Rain on the glass,

cold in my bones

Life here falls the same way down Soft but heavy,

all around I stay level,

I stay near

Let the season cover what I feel (ooh)

Rain keeps time without me

I let the room grow cold (ooh)