3 short verses describing a relationship that went bad. Could be subtitled 'The Crap Boyfriend'. But there's a bittersweetness to it - 'Now I remember only the blackened paint... and the rainbows in the flames'
The Winter Heart
Once I had a dream
I dreamed of you and all was well
Then waking into streams of darkness
The silence of the deeps was whispering
You had gone
Long ago I know had a photograph
You were smiling at me
Somewhere I lost it,
Now I remember only that your smile
Didn't reach your eyes
So oh so, the winter heart can freeze
The prayers of saints upon their knees
The songs of small birds in the trees
And I have ice-bound memories
And I have ice-bound memories
Once I painted you
A secret portrait -
Not for show
But when you left I burned it
Now I remember only the blackened paint
And the rainbows in the flames
So, maybe so the winter heart...
Oh oh oh
Where did all the summertime go?