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Intro

Play Am a few times

On a misty autumn morning

You can hear the wild birds call

Giving chilly winter warning

That the evening star will fall.

I feel the wind that sings their crying

I wish the dying sun goodbye

And I stand to see them flying

To a warm and welcome sky.

Chorus

And I stay to meet cold winter

To crunch the crackling ice and snow

To walk alone beneath bare branches

And wonder why you had to go.

The empty rooms they echo laughter

The broken door creaks one more song

And in the silence that comes after

The dusty floors, they ask 'how long?'

(Repeat chorus)

And I stay to meet... etc

Soon I'll find winter clothes to hold me

And wrap myself against the cold

But frost and fire, they never told me

There is no peace in growing old.

Coda

ae (let ring)

There is no peace in growing ... old.