Love, I know, it's been a long, long year While we lived in the flicker of the light I hung those feathers like hair upon your shoulder Best not to tether our bodies to the ground Like a flightless bird on a wide-winged hope Cradled by the dawn The afterglow, a mother's love A deer trail in the snow ♪ I keep the static playing on the radio You move through the room with a misty halo Like a flightless bird on a wide-winged hope Cradled by the dawn The afterglow, a mother's love A deer trail in the snow And we unfold to the edge of it A crimson sky hangs low A rush of blood, a hammer blow A deer trail in the snow ♪ Like a flightless bird on a wide-winged hope Cradled by the dawn The afterglow, a mother's love A deer trail in the snow And we unfold to the edge of it A crimson sky hangs low A rush of blood, a hammer blow A deer trail in the snow ♪ Love, I know, it's been a long, long year