Mike Heron - Winter in China Lyrics

"The world moves on and leaves a tear".

"Warmth, dazzle are gone".

"It gives you conflict of emotions".

Dragged wailing into existence by the unnatural

and largely hopeless act of rendering Chinese

poetry into English, they ended up here!



Cold, cold as a crystal, the world moves on and leaves a tear

We both used to see the same thing when we closed our eyes in loving

I'd like to believe there's more wine in that glass

But a shiver in the night says

"Cut your losses

Cut your losses - oh run"



chorus:

Warmth, dazzle are gone

Gone from the sun as the year moves on

Warmth, dazzle are gone

Gone from the sun as the year moves on

Oh! dazzle, it's got no place in my life anymore

Loud in the deep night

The cold,

The cold cracks like a whip - like a whip



Idle dreams of the far away, they got you in the lead still.

I taste doubt on my lips now,

Don't know if you're stayin', goin'

Fresh paint on the landscape

I really don't know what to think

bout our love

Cold misty rain in tangled threads falls on me

chorus:



A dream can be all that's free sometimes,

I know the feelin' well.

A dream got a grip like winter,

Hold you back from all your dealings.

Set your eyes on a distance, pin a heart on your sleeve.

Give you conflict,

Give you a conflict of emotions

And you can't break away



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