cold as it gets

When my soul aches singer-songwriter Patty Griffin often has ways of capturing apt expression of that ache. This song feels about right, now.

To the end of the earth

I’ll search for your face

For the one who laid all of our beauty to waste

Threw our hope into heaven

Our children to the fire

I am the one who crawled through the wire

I am the one who crawled through the wire.

There’s a million sad stories

On this side of the road

Strange how we all just got used to the blood

Millions of stories that’ll never be told

Silent and froze in the mud

Silent and froze in the mud.

I know a cold as cold as it gets

I know darkness that’s darker than cold

A wind that blows as cold as it gets

Blew out the light of my soul

Blew out the light of my soul.

I dream in my sleep, 

I dream in my days

Some sunny street now so far away

Where up in a window

A curtain will sway

And you and I’ll meet down below

You and I’ll meet down below.

I know a cold as cold as it gets

I fight a war I may never see won

I live only to see

You live to regret

Everything that you’ve done

Everything that you’ve done

Everything that you’ve done.

-Patty Griffin