And when they found you on your back
All cradled in the snow
You looked as though you could sleep forever
When they found you on your back
All grinning in the cold
And skin so dry
Stained with glue and wine
In the neighbourhood where you were raised
And you wasted all those days
Body deep in snowy banks
A Christmas met by holly of the night
Foggy eyes wide and alive
Watching snowflakes sheath the sky
And when they found you on your back
Lips cracking in the sun
Marks of the night that took your life
And when they found you on your back
Alone out in the cold
Limbs stretched to show
An angel formed below
When the holiday is over at last
Like so many others past
Now resides alone
But without your winter
As the angel melts away
And you circle round the sleigh
And this desperateness to stay
No more holiday