Winter When He Goes Lyrics - Flower Of Avalon - Tracy Grammer

As the sun is to the city 

In the endless weeping winter 

So is joy to me, and pity 

When he leaves me, falsely tender 

Like the true love's knot we tethered 

Plastic ivy 'round the portal 

For to frame the spring forever 

Though the blizzard took the mortal holy rose 

It's always winter when he goes 

As a matter of convenience 

We don't speak of dying gardens 

As a woman of heart and lenience 

I make liberal with my pardons 

I am generous with kindness 

He, with smiles and exultations 

Though he binds his wounds in silence 

I my own in practiced patience, lest he know 

It's always winter when he goes 

He collects the twigs and briars 

I stack them up for fire 

But it's chilly for the burning 

He slumbers in the straw 

I hold out for the thaw 

But the seasons won't be turning