SONG FOR A WINTER'S NIGHT
As recorded by Gordon Lightfoot on "The Way I Feel" (1967)

The lamp is burning low upon my tabletop.
The snow is softly falling.
The air is still in the silence of my room.
I hear your voice softly calling.
If I could only have you near,
To breathe a sigh or two,
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love,
On this winter night with you.

The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead.
My glass is almost empty.
I read again between the lines upon the page
The words of love you send me.
If I could know within my heart,
That you were lonely too,
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love,
On this winter night with you.

The fire is dying now; my lamp is growing dim.
The shades of night are lifting.
The morning light steals across my windowpane,
Where webs of snow are drifting.
If I could only have you near,
To breathe a sigh or two,
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love,
And to be once again with you,
To be once again with you.

—Gordon Lightfoot
©1967 M Witmark & Sons (ASCAP)