Overwintered Songtext
von Stephan Nance

Teeth chatter
Automatically
A beat clicking double-time
To the crunch of snow
An animal
Licks a beater
A Northern Flicker
Clucks a whimper
A beep goes off inside
Is it time
Or just a timer?

Decalcomania
Ironed on our hides by the
Scarlet fever-stricken
Two-bit hypocritical
Neo-Puritan-tan-tans
Turning on a dime, a dime, a dime


What are they?
A little more than kin
And less than kind
We live in the same
But we run on
Different time, time, time

You are safe
You are sound
You are safe
You are sound
Ooh

I feel your frequency
Resonate at my core
Enkindle my extremities
Echo through my bones
Hiccup out its tones

Ooh mm
Ooh mm
Ooh mm-mm, mm-mm-mm-mm
Mm-mm-mm-mm
Ooh mm
Ooh mm-mm, mm-mm-mm-mm
Mm-mm-mm-mm


We face apocalypses every day
And fumble stricken phrases
We ball up to play

When we feel forlorn
Just keep peeling those little oranges
They keep stealing, we keep peeling
Stuck on an uneven keeling
Every Great and Snowy Egret′s
Speaking of my evening grossness
Every Evening Grosbeak's
Speaking of my great and snowy egress
Even if we deviate
Even if we deviate
The ice rink′s set to counterclockwise
There's no exit till we skate

I lurch along the verge
A strawberryless frozen biscuit
My flimsy figure zero traps
A miraculous lemniscate
When the intercom comes through
I think I've lost my refound calling
Oh, Winter Tanager
You help me walk but you leave me crawling
You are a cardinal
You are a cardinal
And I should be so lucky
As to be a part of you at all

You are safe
You are sound
You are safe
You are sound

Ooh mm
Ooh mm
Ooh mm-mm, mm-mm-mm-mm
Mm-mm-mm-mm
Ooh mm
Ooh mm-mm, mm-mm-mm-mm
Mm-mm-mm-mm

You bring the tropics to these chilly parts
The contrast shocks my system
Chilblains swell upon my heart