Bruce Cockburn The Coldest Night Of The Year Lyrics

The Coldest Night Of The Year Lyrics

I was up all night, socializing

Trying to keep the latent depression from
crystalizing

Now the sun is lurking just behind the Scarborough horizon




And you're not even here

On the coldest night of the year.




I took in Yonge Street at a glance

Heard the punkers
playing

Watched the bikers dance

Everybody wishing they could go to
the south of France 



And you're not even here

On the coldest
night of the year. 



Hey look at me now

See the shape I'm
in

It's taken me so long to catch on to what's going on

Inside this
skin

When two lovers really love there's nothing there

But this
suddenly compact universe

Skin and breath and hair 



I
watched the all night TV show

In the all night bar

I drove all the
people home

I was the one with the car 



Now I'm sitting here
alone and sleepless

and wondering where you are

And wishing you were
here

On the coldest night of the year