Winter Sunlight

[Verse 1]
Winter sunlight on a red brick wall
Caged bird singin' across the hall
Each of us feelin' that we've missed a call
For reasons we remember this season

[Verse 2]
What a difference a year does make
Red brick tile to cold blue slate
And all the ways that a heart can break
When nobody can offer a reason

[Chorus]
Oh, how the needle lies low
And holds about freezin'
Oh, how the people I know
Have chosen this season

[Verse 3]
It turned cold with a vengeance this year
Spilling sunlight through a cracked mirror
On painted floors and the cheep veneer
Of the desk where I shattered your picture

[Verse 4]
Too many photo booths in train station bars
Posing as heroes in some forgotten war
This is the first day of the rest of your life
So smile and take a picture

[Chorus]
Oh, how the needle lies low
And holds about freezin'
Oh, how the people I know
Have chosen this season

[Verse 5]
Some meet the devil and it changes their life
Some meet his double and call it a wife
It's not that I'm against selling my soul
But he better make it worth my trouble

[Verse 6]
Tenacious leaves clinging to that tree
Flauntin' their own infidelities
Defying laws that would set them free
And leave me without a shadow

[Chorus]
Oh, how the needle lies low
And holds about freezin'
Oh, how the people I know
Have chosen this season
Oh, how the needle lies low
And holds about freezin'
Oh, how the people I know
Have chosen this season