December

December is the cruelest month but this time for once my cheeks are warm After long years in the monkey-house I am ready for the storm Let them throw all their cannonballs let all their strongmen come I`m ready to go anywhere through venom, sick and scum! December isn`t always cold but this year she`s mine and I know why Somewhere a flower has to grow for every flower that dies I`m stricken with fever but my heart is strong as steel I`m ready to go anywhere! I can believe, I can feel! December is a trusted friend I always recognise her face It`s a plague of fool blown aside forever by her soft and silent grace She is reckless as a Mayday gentle as a stone And ready to go anywhere to carry me back home! December fell deep in the bleak mid-winter time when Jesus Christ Howled a baby saviour`s howl a primal truth as pure as ice And though we crucified him on a cross and dragged his name from payer to curse He was able to go anywhere he was almost one of us!