The gray dawn is coming as I settle deep,
Into my coat for warmth and try to sleep.
The snow is falling very heavy now,
It is causing the trees to bow.
And across the land a silence fell,
The minutes passed by and I could tell,
No sleep would I find inside this coat,
No, I think sleep was very remote,
The excitement of this day had been left behind,
For years it had been no where to find,
I only came looking for memories lost,
Faces I once found among this frost,
Faces I used to know very well,
On these faces and memories I would dwell,
All those faces are hard to remember now,
I seem to have lost them somewhere, somehow,
It all used to seem very important then,
We would get together and remember when,
The times were better and the game did not end,
And all those people I did call friend,
Slowly, slowly our gang did slim down,
Then one day I was the only one left around,
It has been years now that I have been alone,
Sitting here on this mountain of stone,
On this morning as we used to do then,
I sit and watch the river flow around the bend,
But now laws have come and stuck around,
So I no longer carry a gun to this ground,
No, I only watch the river flow,
And to my friends I hope to go,
They were lucky and never saw,
These rules that were passed into law,
I see along the river far below,
An antlered deer as it wades through the deep
snow,
I feel a pain down deep inside,
A few faces come from where they hide,
I continue watching the deer in the snow,
As the pain continues to grow and grow,
Then all at once the pain is gone,
All my long lost friends have come along,
We greet as in times gone past,
Times that faded all too fast,
All my friends surround me now,
As I lay there dead in the snow,
My memories are gone and forever lost,
Frozen here among the frost.
Into my coat for warmth and try to sleep.
The snow is falling very heavy now,
It is causing the trees to bow.
And across the land a silence fell,
The minutes passed by and I could tell,
No sleep would I find inside this coat,
No, I think sleep was very remote,
The excitement of this day had been left behind,
For years it had been no where to find,
I only came looking for memories lost,
Faces I once found among this frost,
Faces I used to know very well,
On these faces and memories I would dwell,
All those faces are hard to remember now,
I seem to have lost them somewhere, somehow,
It all used to seem very important then,
We would get together and remember when,
The times were better and the game did not end,
And all those people I did call friend,
Slowly, slowly our gang did slim down,
Then one day I was the only one left around,
It has been years now that I have been alone,
Sitting here on this mountain of stone,
On this morning as we used to do then,
I sit and watch the river flow around the bend,
But now laws have come and stuck around,
So I no longer carry a gun to this ground,
No, I only watch the river flow,
And to my friends I hope to go,
They were lucky and never saw,
These rules that were passed into law,
I see along the river far below,
An antlered deer as it wades through the deep
snow,
I feel a pain down deep inside,
A few faces come from where they hide,
I continue watching the deer in the snow,
As the pain continues to grow and grow,
Then all at once the pain is gone,
All my long lost friends have come along,
We greet as in times gone past,
Times that faded all too fast,
All my friends surround me now,
As I lay there dead in the snow,
My memories are gone and forever lost,
Frozen here among the frost.
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