[Intro] (Clean electric guitar, distant reverb) Ooh… Ooh… ⸻ [Verse 1] Blackbirds in winter Circle the telephone wire Snow on the rooftops Smoke from a dying fire The town looks smaller Than it did when I was young Every road I followed Leads back to what I’ve become The storefronts are empty The neon barely glows Somewhere a screen door slams In the cold December wind And I stand here wondering Where all those years have gone ⸻ [Chorus] Blackbirds in winter Flying through the gray Carrying the pieces Of the years that slipped away If there’s a reason For all the things I’ve lost Maybe it’s written In the sky above the frost Blackbirds in winter Still finding somewhere to go ⸻ [Verse 2] There’s a house on the corner Where we carved our names in wood We swore we’d leave forever And somehow thought we could Now the paint is peeling The porch hangs tired and low Like a photograph forgotten In a drawer nobody knows The river keeps on moving It don’t care who stays behind It just carries every season Further down the line ⸻ [Chorus] Blackbirds in winter Flying through the gray Carrying the pieces Of the years that slipped away If there’s a reason For all the things I’ve lost Maybe it’s written In the sky above the frost Blackbirds in winter Still finding somewhere to go ⸻ [Bridge] And maybe getting older Ain’t learning how to win Maybe it’s just learning How to live with where you’ve been The cold can take the leaves away The daylight and the bloom But even in the longest night Something’s moving through ⸻ [Final Chorus] Blackbirds in winter Cutting through the storm Searching for the sunlight Waiting somewhere beyond And all the ghosts I carry Don’t weigh as much tonight I watch them rise together Disappear into the white Blackbirds in winter Still singing through the cold Blackbirds in winter Still finding their way home ⸻ [Outro] (Guitars swell and ring out) Ooh… Ooh… Blackbirds in winter… Flying home…
