Winter's Daughter

Late shift, cheap coat, hands on the wheel
The windshield tells me how to feel
No headlights coming down the lane
Just silver needles in the rain
I took the turn a bit too fast
To make a bad year be the past

Black ice, white blood and red water
Nobody warned the winter's daughter
A flash of chrome against the pine
The freezing ditch, the broken line
Black ice, white blood and red water
Cold as the kiss you never brought her

The engine clicks and loses steam
My breath is hanging in the beam
The skin goes numb, the fever dies
A quiet ceiling in the skies
I watch the color spill and spread
Across the gravel and the dead

Black ice, white blood and red water
Nobody warned the winter's daughter
A flash of chrome against the pine
The freezing ditch, the broken line
Black ice, white blood and red water
Cold as the kiss you never brought her

Wash off the salt, wash off the shame
The creek won't even know my name
It turns to velvet, turns to stone
I never was this much alone

Black ice, white blood and red water
Nobody warned the winter's daughter
A flash of chrome against the pine
The freezing ditch, the broken line
Black ice, white blood and red water
Cold as the kiss you never brought her

White blood on the frozen ground
Red water without a sound
Just black ice
Just black ice