The First Snow Of The Year-Jason Anderson

[ti:The First Snow Of The Year] [ar:Jason Anderson] [al:Tonight] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The First Snow Of The Year - Jason Anderson [00:23.64]For the first snow of the year [00:26.47] [00:27.31]Maybe we will stand together [00:30.57] [00:31.10]On some empty washed-out corner [00:34.67]In your parents neighborhood [00:37.50] [00:38.33]Oh these streets you know by heart [00:40.90] [00:41.72]Let us walk and let us listen [00:45.10] [00:45.77]Joni Mitchell wishes for a river [00:48.83]I just wish you'd point your mittened hand [00:52.15]Find the moon and the stars like woah [00:58.66] [00:59.31]Cracked white keys against the black keys of the sky Yeah [01:06.36] [01:07.27]So the sky is this piano [01:11.27]And the music is hushed and still [01:14.58] [01:15.11]And perfect for the first snow of the year [01:19.71] [01:34.96]Sharon there is something nice [01:37.93] [01:38.66]The simple glow of a living room [01:41.60] [01:42.16]The drunken wash of mantle lights [01:45.63]Like hazy and slow on hardwood floors [01:49.62]Where jeans get warm against your legs [01:53.33]Sweaters get warm and zippers get hot [01:56.62]And my brother and the girl he loves [01:59.91]Are lying soft on the couch [02:02.05]And you can sort of hear them say [02:05.67]You are my life you are my size [02:13.14] [02:13.81]You are my friend my best friend [02:18.73] [02:19.35]And the window pane is polar stains [02:23.47]A networked map that leads a path [02:27.19]Through arctic veins [02:28.89]To the first snow of the year [02:31.94] [02:32.92]Take me to the bridge [02:34.38] [02:35.94]And the air it smells like winter [02:39.31] [02:43.46]And these clouds stood stacked like slate [02:47.12] [02:50.01]And yellow taxis find the street [02:53.34]Bicycles whir and buses squeak [02:57.19]We lean against a mailbox and wait [03:02.13] [03:02.79]For everything [03:04.37] [03:51.42]My buddy calls it "Tetris brain" [03:54.19] [03:55.40]When you play that game all day [03:58.19] [03:59.24]And at night when you're going to sleep [04:01.95] [04:02.95]You close your eyes and see the pieces moving [04:06.43]I swear to god that's what it was [04:10.09]Those seven weeks we talked so much [04:13.19] [04:13.95]I would feel my cell phone vibrate [04:16.60] [04:17.32]In my pocket even though it was off [04:20.06] [04:20.69]So I held you like a flag I did [04:27.74] [04:28.27]For this idea of ourselves together [04:35.38] [04:36.46]And waved it wild about my head [04:40.34]The autumn green to orange to red [04:43.96]Then white [04:44.66] [04:45.77]For the first snow of the year [04:48.70] [04:51.41]Then white [04:52.23] [04:53.25]For the first snow of the year [04:56.19] [04:58.89]That's right [04:59.61] [05:00.85]The first snow of the year