A river in winter / mnemosyne
There's a river in winter I know
Where the sirens lay frozen below
And their melodies cradle my sorrow
There's a river in winter I know

There's a river in winter back home
See the ducks go on drifting in rows
See the trees through the fog dance so slow
By the river that I used to go

There's a woman dead still in the dirt
And a bush full of thorns surrounds her
And she'll slip, time to time
Through the landscapes alive in my mind

Therе's a river in winter I know
Therе's a river I loved but then had to go
Now the city stays green and it's made me machine
There's a river in winter I know

Come on, Mnemosyne
Will you remember me?
Stood there among the trees
In the winter's release

Oh, you birth all the muses and play all the blues in my mind
It's dark in the land I remember, I've left it behind

I remember it well
The last time I sang prayers to the geese and they hissed at me
Mnemosyne, remember me
Bathed in green, philistine
By the river in winter I knew
And the love that I grieved through and through
In the colour and even the blue
For I know I'll come grovelling to you

Mnemosyne
Remember me