///*****/// [Intro] Two glasses on the window ledge Snow beginning slow [Verse 1] We have said the worst of it already We have thrown the heavy stones We have slept in separate countries In a house we call our own But you are standing in the doorway With your grandmother's old shawl And the fire is going gold behind you And I remember it all [Pre-Chorus] There is a kind of love that survives Everything it should not It goes quiet for a season But it never once forgot [Chorus] So pour the whiskey and the winter light And sit here on the floor Let the argument go cold outside And do not lock the door We have been strangers to each other We have been cruel and we have been right Come and be my only country In the whiskey and the winter light [Verse 2] There is grey in what was golden There are lines around your eyes And I put half of them there With my silence and my pride But you never took the ring off Not in all those bitter years And I never stopped from knowing Every music of your tears [Pre-Chorus] So let the snow keep falling Let the world lock up its gate There is nothing out there for us And there is everything in this grate [Chorus] So pour the whiskey and the winter light And sit here on the floor Let the argument go cold outside And do not lock the door We have been strangers to each other We have been cruel and we have been right Come and be my only country In the whiskey and the winter light [Verse 3] There is a photograph above us From a summer by the sea You are laughing at the camera And you are laughing hard at me And I used to hate that picture For the people we were then Now it is the only holy thing In this whole apartment Because those two did not know What the years would ask them for And they went and paid it anyway And they are standing on the floor [Pre-Chorus] And the fire keeps on giving What the fire always gave A little warmth, a little ruin And a reason to be brave [Bridge] I do not need you to forgive me Not tonight and not so fast I just need you in the doorway Long enough to let it pass Long enough to let it pass [Guitar Solo] [Final Chorus] So pour the whiskey and the winter light And put your hand in mine Let the arguments burn down to ash And I will burn down mine We have been strangers to each other We have been wrong and we have been right Come and be my only country Come and be my one true country In the whiskey and the winter light [Coda] Let the neighbours have their quiet Let the town go under white There is nothing we need saying That we cannot say tonight Just your shoulder on my shoulder And the shawl across us both And the slow and stubborn keeping Of an old and beaten oath [Outro] Snow beginning slow Two glasses going warm And the two of us still here And the two of us still here And the two of us still here
