When winter comes the nights get longer
Months get colder
Moods get somber
Your heart feels low
Your mind may wander
To thoughts as dark as night
You may see a tree
Wonder "what's the use?"
Maybe there's no use
Just a nice excuse
For me to sit beside you
On these cold and lonely nights
Surrounded by the darkness
Looking at the lights
Trees don't have beliefs
They don't celebrate our dates
But we can still enjoy their bows and breathe the air they make
And lights don't know it's Christmas but we get lost in their glow
Reminded of the sun that warms and melts away the snow
The darkness of the winter doesn't know it feels unkind
It comes with no intention, without you or I in mind
And we don't know the reasons that feelings come and go
Do they change with the seasons or mean nothing at all?
But you can sit beside me
On these cold and lonely nights
Surrounded by the darkness
Looking at the lights
We don't need to be okay
There's no right way to be
We can just be quiet
And gaze into the tree
Spring will soon return
Sadness has an end
It may be hard to see it
So we'll stick close 'til then
And we can gather 'round a tree
You and I together
And we can dress it up in stars and huddle against the weather
And sit beside each other
On the longest coldest nights
Surrounded by the darkness
Looking at the lights
In the darkness
Looking at the lights