Cold Shaking Bones

Tread softly on my cold shaking bones

Hold me close, keep me near

Please don’t ever let me go.

Would you really like to know?

I’m holding on for life my dear

Tread softly on my cold shaking bones.

Let the stormy and raging wind blow

I know the answer, but it’s the answer I fear

Please don’t ever let me go.

These changes—I’m afraid—I cannot undergo

But the season’s close calls and the end is near

Oh tread softly on my cold shaking bones.

I’m weak and I’m bruised, as you finally know

Swirls of purple and black fade out and disappear

Please don’t ever let me go.

The strings of my heart have come unsewn

Your body’s the only creature I fear

Tread softly on my cold shaking bones,

And please don’t ever let me go.