TTIW

[Verse 1]

Don't let the heatwave cloud your thoughts
Tell them it's winter, make it real
Winter shades of pale grey, ebb away the ever-dumbing lunar rays
As centigrades dip past freezing
Chaos on the grid patterns, gristle in your jugular mainline
The sprawling apparatus pumping blood in a fake life
Of comfort and good will, life at a standstill
Come for the fossil fuels, back to the wood mill
I saw the colours seep out of your plum cheeks, crimson
Eyes sallow, eyes sunk, hands full
The litres of blood cup the diminishing life source
Dripping on the snow covered tracks that the car made
Cover the sun spots with tarpaulin shacks on the tundra
Lost in the voice tone
Bodies in the copper like falsified prophets in a full star
Flare popping blanks at the last man standing in the whiteness
One man prophet at the glacier
Solace in the flames erupt, the hope lost globally
Two dull gem stones staring at the constellations clashing in the night sky
Eruptions in the galaxy, the galaxy burns
Deeper than the fear mongers fathomed or learned
A word for word, note for note
Nostradamus diary entry, the factories churned
Conveyor belts lash out the work

[Chorus]

God dropped man on a planet on his lonesome
He saw the light in the luminous sky
Grow great then fade quick, sparks on a cinder
Dark on a vista, tell them it's winter
First stop snowfall, second stop ice forms
Third stop winter, last stop misery
First drops landed, second drops froze
On the third moon cycle with a last lost luminary

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[Verse 2]

Roadkill suppers on another bleak evening
Snowfall covers every isotope breathing
Tell them it's winter, tell them it's freezing
Tear them apart limb for limb from the feasting
Rapturous episodes tilter the axis
Bandage the steel toe, capture the stalker
Stack up the tyres, watch them squeal in the night
The fumes grow blonde, the vessels wade in the water
He felt life in the depth of his ballsacks
Strides of a madman searching for life forms, lustful
Signs of a life source scratched in the tracks
Pebbled dashed, pepper zigzags panicking
But nothing, end at the start point
Stars in a dark sky laugh as the planet glows dayglow
Single link missing in a withering blood chain
Winter on the glacial mud plains
Missed the last man walking cross the ice cold plains
In the hope that the sun might bless his face
But the white hour stayed strong
He couldn't see his hand outstretched an arms length away
Just shy of his nose, frostbitten and bleeding
White wing cascade so bitter this evening
Dark day after dark day in this dark place
Darkness breeds in this bed made of treason

[Chorus]

God dropped man on a planet on his lonesome
He saw the light in the luminous sky
Grow great then fade quick, sparks on a cinder
Dark on a vista, tell them it's winter
First stop snowfall, second stop ice forms
Third stop winter, last stop misery
First drops landed, second drops froze
On the third moon cycle with a last lost luminary

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