A Magician in the Snow

Top of the valley
It's better up here
The curtains don't fall
The Sky's always clear
Dress all your tadpoles in your favorite gear
Let's all dress up nice
The carnival's near after all

Watch all the dancers, they
Tip-toe, too
The night is so bright
Your father leans over, says
The man in the shadows
He scares me too
The vignette, the silhouette
Is bad for the eyes

But he
Protects you
From
All of the

Mosses and lichens
The birds and the eagles
Night hags and witches
And skeletal people
Raise all your lanterns
And sing to the sky
You are safe here
You are safe here, now

Let's call it solitary
All my friends are looking scary
Cause I'm burning charcoal in the
Trees and that's a bit unseelie
Here there was an engine in
Another world, another time
Before we let ourselves become
Bastard children, dreaming there was

Blood at the fireside
As we tried to take a life
Patient sinners, you and I
We were but we've run out of time
What's your fancy when you're dancing
With the ghosts of men who've pass'ed
Am i dreaming when you're singing
Songs in echoes, softly to me

So we recall a perfect night, a perfect memory
Honestly, we planned to be the builders of our effigies
Now we hide ourselves inside these dull, unholy themes of
Bedtime tales and requiems and elderberry horror scenes
Do you remember when we first met
Can you repent a justified murder, and

Blood at the fireside
As we tried to take a life
Patient sinners, you and I
We were but we've run out of time
And yet inside I know I get this
Every killer wants forgiveness
Tell me darling, am I dreaming
When you're singing quiet to me

The devil's man
Has gone away
He's got no pulse
His eyes are grey
My love has joined
The feather's ranks
He's got no pulse
His eyes are grey

Do you know where the night walks
When it leaves us all to rise
I need to know before it
Takes me with its fireflies
Save me from this temporary
Life, but please don't reprimand me
I need this
Moment alone as I'm pondering all of the

Blood at the fireside
As we tried to take a life
Patient sinners, is what we were but I'd
Take it back one billion times
Just a monster, I'm
Just a monster, if you
Kill a monster, then you'll
Take its throne away

Paralyze a world of bees
Live among the willowed trees
Paralyze a world of bees
Live among the willowed trees
Paralyze a world of bees
You don't need them anyway, if you
Paralyze a world of bees
To live among the willowed trees