Song for a Winter's Night
Thinking of Christmas and if we'll be in Iuka or home this year.
Two years ago I found this CD of Sarah McLachlan's ("Wintersong") and it's one of my favorites, with this (title) song being one of the favorites. They're all mellow and take you to a thoughtful place about family, friends, memories, dreams.
I played this song repeatedly last year I guess in remembrance of Mama, of Goobie and of Teri and thought how I would just like to hold their hands once more... It also reminds me somehow of the little house Goobie and I lived in, with the rattley windowpanes, frosted over in the coldest time of winter, and how our breaths would rise in the cold house before getting near the little coal-burning heater in the kitchen, freezing on one side and burning to pink speckles on the other. Thinking of that little house - it was like a play house. All it had was four rooms and electricity, and thank goodness for that. Anyway...
"Song For A Winter's Night"
[Written and first sung by Gordon Lightfoot in 1975]
The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top
The snow is softly fallin'
The air is still within the silence of my room
I hear your voice softly callin'
If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you
The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead
My glass is almost empty
I read again between the lines upon the page
The words of love you sent me
If I could know within my heart
That you were lonely too
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you
The fire is dying now, my lamp is growing dim
The shades of night are liftin'
The mornin' light steals across my windowpane
Where webs of snow are driftin'
If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
And to be once again with with you
To be once again with with you
There are some videos on YouTube, but they are romantic visions (one is from the movie "The Lake House") not about missing your mother or best friend. But the music is pretty if you care to listen...
I suppose it's sad, but isn't sadness part of life, too? It's just that time of year with the early night, Christmas lights and sweet memories...
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