Now you don't
Have a word to call this kind
Of the year
And made you kneel
And beg it to turn you right
Two dead birds
Underneath the headlights
Every sound they ever made
To call out they are alive
Every piece of me that breaks
Tryin ' to keep from the sight
Of doubt
Don't you doubt
Everybody's seen some winter
Don't you take the dark
Way out
Don't you doubt
Even your breath is breathin' for another one
Don't you just take the dark
Way out
Thin wind
Ringin' in the silver tines
Yeah, it took you by the throat
But it wasn't the killin' kind
And now you don't
Tell it like you used to
Every day left in the dark
Is gonna come back to you
Every hope left in your heart
Is waitin' on what you'll do
With doubt
Don't you doubt
Everybody's seen some winter
Don't you take the dark
Way out
Don't you doubt
Even your blood is beatin' for another one
Don't you just take the dark
Way out
Don't you doubt
Dou-oubt the reasons are dead
And they're growin' in the ground
So why
Does it give
Why'd it take
Why the bitter kiss
Why be mean
Why be anything
Be the man
Be the child
Be the cold midnight
Soaked in the bones of this town
In the breath
In the pink
In the honey taken from that green thing
Given sweet
In the cold in the pour
In the want in the wantin'
The sound even your own body knows
All there is
See the gem
Your hands are lined with all that
They have have