Far as the North Wind

It's been too many miles and too many empty nights;

Counting all the airports and the runway landing lights;

I keep your voice on a message

I have never let go;

Playing in the dark just to feel a little less alone;

The distance is a weight that

I have carried way too long;

Every mile between us is another verse in this same song;

But I'd cross the whole cold country on my hands and on my knees;

Just to lay my head down easy in the quiet of your peace;

And the north wind carries everything away;

But it never carries you, no, you stay;

You're far as the north wind, far as the snow;

But you're close as the ache that

I carry and know;

I'd walk through the winter,

I'd walk through the pain;

Just to stand in your doorway and hold you again;

Far as the north wind, but

I'm coming all the same;

I've made peace with a lot of things a man learns how to lose;

But I never made peace with the missing and the blues;

There's a photograph that's fading on the dashboard of my truck;

And a promise that

I made you that I'm holding on to;

The nights are so much colder when there's half a bed to fill;

And the silence gets so loud that

I can hear the mountains chill;

But I take a thousand cold ones and

I take a thousand more;

Just to hear your footsteps coming soft across the floor;

And the north wind takes the summer and the day;

But it never takes you, no, you stay;

You're far as the north wind, far as the snow;

But you're close as the ache that

I carry and know;

I'd walk through the winter,

I'd walk through the pain;

Just to stand in your doorway and hold you again;

Far as the north wind, but

I'm coming all the same;

If the whole world froze over,

I would still find a way;

Break through the ice and the dark and the grey;

′Cause a love like this one doesn't quit and doesn′t die;

It just burns a little brighter under a colder sky;

Oh, you're far as the north wind, far as the snow;

But you're close as the ache that

I carry and know;

I walk through the winter,

I walk through the pain;

Just to stand in your doorway and hold you again;

Far as the north wind;

But I'm coming home again;

Coming home again;

Mmm, oh-oh-oh;