Tapped on the window from the inside
Just to hear the glass ring
And it sang out like a shark
Then went silent like a tiny frightened thing

And the small sun fell down through the treetops
And the small sun shattered on the snow
And the snow stretched out like a blanket
Like something I used to know

I let the memory slip away from me
I let my memory slip away from me
And the snow stretched out like a shroud
From our doorstep to the seashore

And the new day, whatever it intends to be
Let my memory be erased irretrievably
The rain will fall on the old house now
A thousand miles away
In the sky sometimes I see a reckoning
When I'm cold and tired
And then the compass tilts like a sinking ship
Or spins like a thing gone wild