Old Malus trees stand in a row
Dormant in the heavy white snow
Roots hold tight to the frozen clay
Waiting for a warmer kind of day
Silver needle points the way home
Underneath a winter colored dome
Frozen glass and a polished face
Holding steady in a lonely place
A pocket watch lost in the drift
Where the heavy winter currents shift
Sunk beneath the dormant orchard floor
Locked behind a heavy iron door
Silver needle points the way home
Underneath a winter colored dome
Frozen glass and a polished face
Holding steady in a lonely place
Prunus branches reach for the grey
Counting down the hours of the day
Deep inside the loam and the grit
A tiny spark where the metals hit
Silver needle points the way home
Underneath a winter colored dome
Frozen glass and a polished face
Holding steady in a lonely place
Dusk descends on the sleeping land
Small enough to fit in a hand
Casting light on the salted ground
Where the northern magnetism is found
Cold metal skin in a bed of ice
Paying for a wanderer's heavy price
No map to follow and no star in sight
Just a silver flicker in the night
Patience grows like a slow green vine
Crossing over a broken boundary line
Wait for the thaw and the sudden spring
Hear the heavy orchard branches swing
Silver needle points the way home
Underneath a winter colored dome
Frozen glass and a polished face
Holding steady in a lonely place
Silver north in the frozen deep
While the apple trees fall fast asleep
(Deep humming, fade out)