Текст песни: A Northwood Waltz + перевод

The clouds filled the sky and the snow tumbled down

From Rhinelander down over old Titletown

And the fields and the rivers once golden and brown

Long hide 'neath the cold white and blue

There’s a voice on the phone said, «I know that you’re gone

I’ve lost you, and all that we knew»

I don’t know just where I’m a-goin'

But I’ll be going soon

Still the Christmas lights hang at the center of town

Near Malarkey’s from Jefferson to Washington

I thank the good Lord they ain’t taken down

As I cling to the years that are through

But the cold, drunken crowd is getting warmer and louder

I know that it’s time for a tune

I don’t know just where I’m a-goin'

But I’ll be going soon

Somewhere far away, she’s crying my name

In the drum of my ear there’s a-ringing

But the fiddle plays on and the crowd sings along

Though they know not the words to be singing, just…

«Lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie»

It’s fifteen-below as the plows clear the road

But what way could be cleared back to you that I know?

For the engine won’t turn and your heart’s letting go

Of a fool who’s torn into two

So, as snowflakes dance down their currents of chance

Will love chance again upon me and you?

I don’t know just where I’m a-goin'

But I’ll be going soon

Well, I’ve failed, but I’ve tried

Hell, before they died

Even angels and saints were a-begging

Now they sing some sweet song in perrenial dawn

In an old unknown tongue, I reckon. Like…

«Lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie

«Lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie

«Lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie

Lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie»

Now the Black-Cappeds sing in the dawning of day

And the icicles melt on their way to the bay

So too it would seem I should be on my way

For I’ve lingered too long in the gloom

Now the slants and the cracks in the walk, how they dance

And they talk as I take to a tune

I don’t know just where I’m a-goin'

But I’ll be going soon