[Verse 1]
The clouds filled the sky and the snow tumbled down
From Rhinelander down over old Titletown
And the fields and the rivers once golden and brown
Long hide 'neath the cold white and blue
There's a voice on the phone said, "I know that you're gone
I've lost you, and all that we knew"
I don't know just where I'm a-goin'
But I'll be going soon
[Verse 2]
Still the Christmas lights hang at the center of town
Near Malarkey's from Jefferson to Washington
I thank the good Lord they ain't taken down
As I cling to the years that are through
But the cold, drunken crowd is getting warmer and louder
I know that it's time for a tune
I don't know just where I'm a-goin'
But I'll be going soon
[Chorus 1]
Somewhere far away, she's crying my name
In the drum of my ear there's a-ringing
But the fiddle plays on and the crowd sings along
Though they know not the words to be singing, just...
[Verse 3]
It's fifteen-below as the plows clear the road
But what way could be cleared back to you that I know?
For the engine won't turn and your heart's letting go
Of a fool who's torn into two
So, as snowflakes dance down their currents of chance
Will love chance again upon me and you?
I don't know just where I'm a-goin'
But I'll be going soon
[Chorus 2]
Well, I've failed, but I've tried
Hell, before they died
Even angels and saints were a-begging
Now they sing some sweet song in perrenial dawn
In an old unknown tongue, I reckon. Like...
"Lie-lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie
"Lie-lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie
Lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie"
[Verse 4]
Now the Black-Cappeds sing in the dawning of day
And the icicles melt on their way to the bay
So too it would seem I should be on my way
For I've lingered too long in the gloom
Now the slants and the cracks in the walk, how they dance
And they talk as I take to a tune
I don't know just where I'm a-goin'
But I'll be going soon