Out Into the Snow-Simon Joyner

[ti:Out Into the Snow] [ar:Simon Joyner] [al:Out Into The Snow] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Out Into the Snow - Simon Joyner [00:24.96]I've been living in a room where the rafters shook [00:30.00] [00:30.81]Where the trains pass through the moonlight [00:35.22] [00:37.04]Dusts rain down cover my books [00:42.19] [00:42.93]Even the bricks crumble to the floor in a landslide [00:47.81] [00:49.54]Remember the caller from a pay phone somewhere [00:55.34]In the heart broken drunk [00:58.90] [01:01.72]Muffled voices and shattered glasses [01:07.51]Toasted all the heads that were not yet hung [01:11.21] [01:12.02]Yours was getting low [01:14.14] [01:19.06]So I stepped out into the snow [01:23.09] [01:34.35]Cut through the car wash across the street [01:38.97] [01:39.75]Where a man cleaned the salt from his tires [01:43.99] [01:46.01]Passed through the grocery store parking lot [01:50.89] [01:51.54]Where open hands bummed nickels for fires [01:55.71] [01:56.96]They sang have you anything to keep a belly warm [02:03.22]On the coldest night of the year [02:07.14] [02:09.62]I gave my change to a bucket of steam [02:14.92]Said he had to get the hell out of here [02:19.31] [02:20.32]Before he froze [02:23.13] [02:27.34]And I stepped out into the snow [02:30.79] [02:41.76]Found you flickering by lightbulbs [02:46.19] [02:46.80]Your new shadows swayed in the concrete [02:52.04] [02:53.11]Said baby it's true [02:55.29] [02:59.04]You get cold so you look for heat [03:03.14] [03:05.27]Everywhere I've been is empty and thin [03:10.01] [03:22.98]And swallowed by the bay [03:26.53] [03:27.44]Standing too low [03:29.87] [03:34.80]And I stepped out into the snow [03:38.49] [03:49.45]Verse from the Bible memorized in childhood [03:55.14]Fell from your tongue to the car keys [03:59.10] [04:00.85]Asked me if it mattered everything had a pattern [04:05.68] [04:06.20]You can't stand far enough back to see it [04:10.12] [04:12.47]I helped you to bed then I washed my face [04:17.68]Covered my hands over your kitchen sink [04:22.24] [04:23.89]Then I cracked the window and let some pressure escape [04:29.31]Just in time to hear a siren scream [04:33.82] [04:34.63]You'd better go [04:39.57] [04:41.47]And I stepped into the snow [04:44.94] [04:55.67]Shed my clothes and killed the lights [05:00.27] [05:00.88]And laid in my bed staring at the rooftop [05:05.48] [05:07.37]This is as quiet as the city gets [05:12.02] [05:12.56]Shooting neon all over our cracked windshields [05:17.32] [05:19.16]I don't remember what happened next [05:24.00] [05:24.55]I'm afraid it took me by surprise [05:28.83] [05:31.17]The night rolled in it felt dark and then [05:35.75] [05:36.60]I guess I closed my eyes [05:40.99] [05:41.59]Just that note [05:44.46] [05:48.52]And I stepped out into the snow [05:52.19] [06:03.48]Dreamed I was a school of fish [06:07.86]I dreamed I was a mother nursing a child [06:12.00] [06:14.01]Dreamed I was the long black train [06:18.66] [06:19.76]Rattling through the countryside [06:23.53] [06:25.42]Dreamed I was reborn in a tornado closet [06:31.20]In the mason jar's cobweb [06:35.19] [06:36.69]Took some time to find my way out of the basement [06:41.98] [06:47.33]The climb was slow [06:50.83] [06:53.62]And I stepped back out into the snow