One More Winter - James McMurtry

You come back now, looking for a clue

Expecting everybody to fall all over you

If you missed it so, this one-light town

Why’d you go and leave with the snow coming down?

I was chasing after what was mine

No explaining, there was no more time

One more winter would’ve been my last

I could feel it slipping from my grasp

You come back now, and you don’t look bad

You must’ve made the best of the time you had

Since you cut and run, like they said you would

And we got along without you just as best we could

Well I don’t expect you’ll ever see

But you’re not my maker and you don’t judge me

One more winter would’ve been my last

And I don’t go dwelling on my past

I could not sit here listening to the wind against these walls

I still hear it whistling in the whispers of them all

And I come back now, but I won’t stay long

There hasn’t much changed since I been gone

No I won’t stay long, you need not fear

I just came back to see if I had ever been here

I could not be like one of them

Faces shrunken from the bitter wind

Their righteous rage, their jealous fear

One more winter won’t find me here