The sellers of flowers Buy up old roses They pull off dead petals Like old heads of lettuce And sell 'em as new ones For cheaper and fairer But they die by the morning So who is the winner?
Not the roses Not the buyers Not the sellers Maybe winter
Cause winter is coming Soon after summer It runs faster, faster Chasing off Autumn We go from a warm sun to only a white sun We go from a large sun to only a small one
When I was a small girl I walked through the market Holding my dad's hand, mitten in gloved hand At night there were roses lit up in glass boxes The heat-lamps would keep them from freezing in winter
We never bought them but somebody must have Maybe they made it or maybe they froze up Before any person had put them in water And hoped that they'd still be alive by the morning
Who's the winner? Not the roses Not the buyers Not the sellers
Not the tellers Of these stories Not the fathers Not their children
Not those waking On a dark night Through a memory They're forgetting Who's the winner? Who's the winner? Maybe winter, maybe winter
Somebody steps on a light through a tunnel They're holding a piece of their mind in the rubble Hold on I won't let go I want to know
But no one lives long enough To see the outcome To know any answers To know what the point is To know if the winter Ever came closer Than on that night When I walked with my father
A small piece of ice Lodged in my mind Lodged in my thoughts, lodged in my eyes Cold all around, cold all around Warm from inside, warm from inside
Who's the winner? Not the roses Not the buyers Not the sellers
Not the tellers Of these stories Not the fathers Not their children
Who's the winner? Not the roses Not the buyers Not the sellers
Not the tellers Of these stories Not the fathers Not their children
Not those walking On a dark night Through a memory They're forgetting
Who's the winner? Who's the winner? Maybe winter, maybe winter
Who's the winner? Who's the winner? Maybe winter, maybe winter
Who's the winner? Who's the winner?
Compositor: Regina Spektor (BMI)Editores: EMI Blackwood Music Inc (BMI), Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Soviet Kitsch Music (BMI)ECAD verificado obra #14714427 em 03/Mai/2024 com dados da UBEM