snow.

 

 Driving around in yet another dump of that crazy white stuff, Steve Seel of The Current was putting together a rotation of his favorite ’snow’ songs. He played this song from The Innocence Mission I had never heard. It was so beautiful, and the lyrics stunned me. I don’t know if they can be easily divorced from the music and that angel voice of Karen Peris, and still retain the impact but here they are:

 

 

If I go out in the morning snow 

In my pajamas and my winter coat 

And take from the house our darker thoughts, 

And take away the memory of loss, 

And if I drop them into the snow 

Will we never find them anymore? 

 

To see him, to see him…happy. 

To see him, to see him…happy. 

 

In the same field where we have stood 

To see your brother fly away in spring 

In a light blue and silver plane, 

Now the snow has covered everything. 

I think we will be made clean like the snow. 

I think we will become new like the snow. 

 

To see him, to see him…happy. 

To see him, to see him… happy. 

 

Some winters are harder than others. 

We are going to take our cameras 

And look through at black trees with empty arms 

And sled tracks wandering, as we are. 

 

To see him, to see him…happy. 

To see him, to see him…happy. 

 

 

 

That’s all.