Two Figures in the Snow - Nerina Pallot

When I was just six years old

My mother left me by my own

For a day or maybe three

It’s my longest memory

Of all the things that we might be

The summoned past is what we leave

So if you ask me what I am

I shall only show my hand

When I was a little boy

My father never brought me toys

My father only brought me blood

But in the end, blood’s not enough

I know this is a lonely road

Eleven thousand miles of cold

To trap the heart and choke it dead

Eleven thousand miles they said

(Eleven thousand miles they said)

But oh my darling, don’t you fear

I will always keep you near

In the winter take my soul

I will never let you go

Oh my darling, you will see

This is what you mean to me

More than riches, more than gold

More than can be bought or sold

Now mine is a simple prayer

Cast into the midnight air

Years enough to what you grow

Years enough so you shall know

Oh this is a lonely road

And onwards, onwards we must go

And yours the gift to raise the dead

Now burn a ghost inside your head

Now burn a ghost inside your head

But oh my darling, don’t you fear

I will always be right here

In the winter take my soul

I will never let you go

Oh my darling, you will see

Everything you mean to me

More than riches, more than gold

More than can be bought or sold

When I was just six years old

My mother left me by my own

But oh my darling, don’t you fear

I will always keep you near