A joy hard-learned in winter was the warming of the bed You’d shake for minutes there and move your legs
Wrap the blanket over you and keep your head within
Let your breath heat the air until you’d feel it getting thin
‘Uiscefhuaraithe’
The feel of coldness only water brings There are some things that no-one teaches you, love That come natural as a dream you didn’t know that you were in
And darling, all my dreaming Is only put to shame
And darling, all my dreaming Has only been given a name
But it came easy, darling As natural as another leg around you in the bed frame
In summer’s heat I learned to dread the coming of the night The awful things we do to make the head go quiet
You’d press your body to the concrete when you were small
The rains of winter seemed to never leave the walls
‘Uiscefhuaraithe’
The feel of coolness only water brings There are some things that no-one teaches you, love
That God in his awful wisdom just programs in
But darling, all my dreaming
Has only been put to shame
And darling, all my dreaming Has only been given a name
But it happened easy, darling Natural as another leg around you in the bed
And I wish I could say
That the river of my arms have found the ocean And I wish I could say the cold lake water of my heart
Christ, it’s boiling over
But it happened easy, darling Natural as another leg around you in the bed frame.
