The Closing of the Year

Here we are back at the end of the world

Chasing the laughter of princes at pictures of earth

Or solace of saviors through silence of lambs

All chesire grins swear they understand

Now war saints in gold sound alarms selling death

While the son is left laughing with rhymes in his head

Once the virtue in all trumped the bountiful hand

But sparks all fade, I understand

So we run on into darkness

Into all the nips and tears

Lights whisper and wander

Through the closing of the year

I come to this house bearing love and regret

Through the endless of winter comes the shallows of man

Just hand me the solace I've never quite had

And I'll laugh like the sound you hear in your head

There are faces we keep until this closing of years

They dance behind eyes and they echo in ears

All sons of some daughters of sons all the same

We bring them to bear but forget all their names

You can't get lost forever

The world will bring you here

Lights whisper and wander

Through the closing of the year