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Josh McBride Lyrics
Came to the cold just to see you
Standing there in expectation
Woolen coat and blue eyed staring
Oh this vision does me good
In the city we don't know yet
Cross the bridges not yet burned
Where the ice won't let us further
Wind our way down through the woods
Take me to the attic ladder
In the barn with broken floors
With your boots of Spanish leather
And my hat knit out of yarn
and my hat knit out of yarn
You are in the seat beside me
And you are in my dreams at night
You are in grandmother's wisdom
And you are in grandfather's charm
Show me young trees in the orchard
With the music on their branches
Keep them from the mouths of creatures
Who intend for them no good
Take me out past the windbreak
Speak the thing you could not utter
Wind will howl and moon will cower
At the magic of the words
Oh, oohohohoooh
Oh, ohoh,
Ohohoh, ohoh
Darling this is when I met you
For the third time, not the last
Not the last time we are learning
who we are and what we would
You are in the seat beside me
And you are in my dreams at night
You are grandmother's wisdom
And you are in grandfather's charm
Standing there in expectation
Woolen coat and blue eyed staring
Oh this vision does me good
Cross the bridges not yet burned
Where the ice won't let us further
Wind our way down through the woods
In the barn with broken floors
With your boots of Spanish leather
And my hat knit out of yarn
and my hat knit out of yarn
And you are in my dreams at night
You are in grandmother's wisdom
And you are in grandfather's charm
With the music on their branches
Keep them from the mouths of creatures
Who intend for them no good
Speak the thing you could not utter
Wind will howl and moon will cower
At the magic of the words
Oh, ohoh,
Ohohoh, ohoh
For the third time, not the last
Not the last time we are learning
who we are and what we would
And you are in my dreams at night
You are grandmother's wisdom
And you are in grandfather's charm
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To me, this song is about a relationship still its opening stages. Maybe it's past the vague "hello's," but not quite to the depth that a romance can blossom in to.
The two are setting out into the "city they don't know yet," the unknown avenues that the relationship may lead them down, "cross the bridges not yet burned," again, still in the early stages. Both are too polite to have gotten into the conflicts that all relationships inevitably face. And because they haven't really gotten to the depths of each others emotions they are stuck where "the ice won't let us further."
@Sevey13 so glad I looked up these lyrics. I've listened to this band for years and recently saw them live. I've always had this song shuffle through and never paid much attention to the lyrics -- when I heard the grandfather/ grandmother part, I always just immediately took it as a nostalgic song. Beautiful beautiful lyrics though encapsulating a time we'd all want to freeze, initially have, or get back to. romances in the winter > summer love. great interpretation above.
@Sevey13 so glad I looked up these lyrics. I've listened to this band for years and recently saw them live. I've always had this song shuffle through and never paid much attention to the lyrics -- when I heard the grandfather/ grandmother part, I always just immediately took it as a nostalgic song. Beautiful beautiful lyrics though encapsulating a time we'd all want to freeze, initially have, or get back to. romances in the winter > summer love. great interpretation above.