Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear. Snow Patrol, 'Run'

 

Winter blue has me in thrall

As if nothing ever matters at all

I run for my life under the snow-ridden sky

Hanging on, or just scraping by,

I keep my head above water, just

O! I'll never learn to fly

In this monochrome world

Of winter trees stripped

Skeletons against the snow-laden

Sky moving in slow motion

So high, high and faraway

And always catching the eye.

On the beach, I'm hunched up,

To face the freezing wind

That crosses the north sea

From Siberia or the Arctic

To exculpate my many sins

And strip away my visceral hold-on life

While the others' frozen hands slip away

As I stagger along the beach,

Searching for a place to be;

Buffeted, battered, no-man mattered,

Tasting the sea salt in the spray

And wishing it was any other day.