Summer's light is warm and bright and dense G - - Dm
and covers you as butter covers bread, as a quilt enfolds a bed Dm C Gsus4 - G
In its thick embrace you cannot sense G - - Dm
How rare and fine, how far away, are things that aren't in front of you today Dm C Dm C G

But we stand on the horizon casting shadows G Gadd9 Dm C
And dance on distant walls we never thought that we could reach G Gadd9 Dm C
We stand on the horizon casting shadows G Gadd9 Dm C
Reciting soaring poems in the ravens' rusty speech G Gadd9 Dm C
We stand on the horizon casting shadows G Gadd9 Dm C
And dance the kind of wandering a questing heart will teach Dm C Gsus4 G
Gsus4 C
Winter's light cannot replace a fire
For winter's touch is pale and loose and thin, is a cold and bitter wind
But winter's light ignites an inner pyre
For it strikes you from the side, and shadows in your heart may leap astride

We stand on the horizon casting shadows
And dance on distant walls we never knew that we could reach
We stand on the horizon casting shadows
Reciting soaring poems in the ravens' rusty speech
We stand on the horizon casting shadows
And dance the kind of wandering a questing heart will teach

I have loved the summer's radiant gleam
But when a lover reaches for my hand, I lead them to the frozen lands
For shadows meeting join without a seam
And mere absence cannot part what is joined in winter's shadowed heart

We stand on the horizon casting shadows
And dance on distant walls we never knew that we could reach
We stand on the horizon casting shadows
Reciting soaring poems in the ravens' rusty speech
We stand on the horizon casting shadows
And dance the kind of wandering a questing heart will teach