When winter comes, the nights get longer Months get colder, moods get sombre Your heart feels low, your mind may wander To thoughts as dark as night You may see a tree, wonder what's the use Maybe there's no use, just a nice excuse For me to sit beside you on these cold and lonely nights Surrounded by the darkness, looking at the lights Trees don't have beliefs, they don't celebrate our dates But we can still enjoy their boughs and breathe the air they make And lights don't know it's Christmas but we get lost in their glow Reminded of the Sun that warms and melts away the snow The darkness of the winter doesn't know it feels unkind It comes with no intention without you or I in mind And we don't know the reasons that feelings come and go Do they change with the seasons or mean nothing at all? But you can sit beside me on these cold and lonely nights Surrounded by the darkness, looking at the lights We don't need to be okay, there's no right way to be We can just be quiet and gaze into the tree Spring will soon return, sadness has an end It may be hard to see it so we'll stick close till then And we can gather 'round a tree, you and I together And we can dress it up in stars and huddle against the weather And sit beside each other on the longest coldest night Surrounded by the darkness, looking at the lights In the darkness looking at the lights