Cold stones hold a paper skin
Where the winter air creeps in
Grey ink bleeds a salted line
Like a dormant ivy vine
Sedges bend beneath the sleet
Hidden by the rushing feet
Rooted in a frozen crack
Waiting for the light to track
Hold it close and let it bloom
Safe inside a quiet room
Sow the seed and watch it grow
Underneath the heavy snow
Hedera helix climbs the wall
Watching every empire fall
Patience is a heavy soil
Where the secret waters boil
Hold it close and let it bloom
Safe inside a quiet room
Sow the seed and watch it grow
Underneath the heavy snow
Dormancy is not a sleep
Promises we meant to keep
Wait for April to arrive
Keep the frozen word alive
Washed in rain and pressed in clay
Turning gold and turning grey
Syllables like petals fall
Against a limestone garden wall
Tracing every cursive curve
Steady as a xylem nerve
Saturated, deep and green
The only truth we've ever seen
Hold it close and let it bloom
Safe inside a quiet room
Sow the seed and watch it grow
Underneath the heavy snow
Let the ink bloom in the grey
Let it lead us to the day
Underneath the heavy snow
(Ooh-ooh, let it grow)
