when i was young and you were in love 
with someones shade in a bedroom far away 
sleeping sound through soundless days 
then december gave cambridge singing saws 
and through the graves were you who i saw 
if only id known id found your heart 

and i remember when i was an ice skater 
every winter when the lakes and ponds had frozen over 

the warm barns and fields hazels voice will never find 
and the treelimbs where we should have climbed 
starry songs swept from the night 
in my care theres a lock of your hair 
an old state flag flown forever blown threadbare 
faded blue in the sea air 

but i remember when i was an ice skater 
every winter when the lakes and ponds had frozen over