The Gift of Winter (1974)

Actors

• Dan Aykroyd (actor)
• Gerry Salsberg (actor)
• Gerry Salsberg (actor)
• Gerry Salsberg (actor)
• Gerry Salsberg (actor)
• Valri Bromfield (actress)
• Gilda Radner (actress)
• John Leach (producer)
• Isobel Jean Rankin (producer)
• John Leach (writer)
• Isobel Jean Rankin (writer)
• Peter Rochon (composer)
• John Leach (director)
• Isobel Jean Rankin (director)

Genres

• Animation
• Family
• Fantasy
• Short

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Who Do You Love? - Sapphires
• Sapphires - Sapphires
• Rapunzel - Subrosa
• Go Down Moses - Subrosa
• Christine - Subrosa
• Force - Subrosa
• Attack On Golden Mountain - Subrosa
• Colder - Subrosa
• Indian Summer - Subrosa
• Mirror - Subrosa
• The Hours I Keep - Subrosa
• Crucible - Subrosa
• Self Rule - Subrosa
• Strega - Subrosa
• Borrowed Time, Borrowed Eyes - Subrosa
• Whippoorwill - Subrosa
• Stonecarver - Subrosa
• I.S.A.A.C - Subrosa
• Dark country - Subrosa
• Hillbilly Death Song - Subrosa
• Jailbreak - Subrosa
• House Carpenter - Subrosa
• The Inheritance - Subrosa
• Black Joan - Subrosa
• Sugar Creek - Subrosa
• How To Neglect Your Heart - Subrosa
• Beneath The Crown - Subrosa

Who do you love
I wanna know, I wanna know
Who do you love
I wanna know, I wanna know
Where did you go
When you kissed me good-night
You didn't walk home
The same way you did last-night
Where did you go
I wanna know, I wanna know
Where did you go
I wanna know, I wanna know
You were dancing with me
But I saw you flirting with her
Were all the pretty words you whispered to me
meant for her, meant for her
So Tell me
Who do you love
I wanna know, I wanna know
Who do you love
I wanna know, I wanna know
Mama said you were bad (this repeats)
And I should leave you alone
You had a playboys reputation
With all the girls you know
So I got to know
Just where I belong
Am I just another girl
Are you leading me on, leading me on
So tell me
Who do you love
I wanna know, I wanna know
Who do you love
I wanna know I wanna know
REPEAT
FADE
James J. Pastirak

Chorus 1
Who do you love?
I wanna know, I wanna know
Where did you go,
When you kissed me goodnight?
You didn't walk home,
The same way you did last night.
Chorus 2
Where did you go?
I wanna know, I wanna know
You were dancing with me,
But I saw you flirting with her.
Were all those pretty words you whispered to me,
Meant for her, meant for her?
So tell me.
Mama said you were bad,
And I should leave you alone.
You had a playboy reputation,
With all the girls youve known.
So I've got to know,
Just where I belong.
Am I just another girl,
Are you leading me on, leading me on?
So tell me
Chorus 1

Flailing under the auspices of a broken kingdom
Stuttering up the stairs of a broken house
The golden mansion
The hanging boudoir
The flowers, thick and heavy.
Blown away by rusting debris
In the belly of the gutted tower
Rapunzel dies today, Rapunzel dies
Cinched tight by her own hair
Golden self-destruct, miles long,
Neverending, neverending.
Passes over your skin soft as angel's breath
Help me. Help me. Help me.
I found myself choking on golden stardust
Coming up from my gut
My innermost nucleus
But then I realized
I was choking on the ashes of a dead sun.

When Isreal was in Egypt's land
Let me people go
Oppressed so hard the could not stand
Let my people go
Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt's land
Tell old Pharaoh, let my people go
So Moses went to Egypt's land
Let my people go
To make old Pharaoh understand
Let my people go
Thus spake the Lord, bold Moses said,
Let my people go
If not, I'll strike your firstborn dead

Whispers on the back porch
The don't want you anymore
He beat you till were raw
Then he took something more
Christine
At school the girls call you a whore
Your lunch money on the floor
But they look you up and down
You found that you were weak
At forgiving enemies
So much darkness in that room
No one gets you, no one could
Never giving in

10 a.m. and I'm drunk again
Bitter cognac, sweet relief
I held your mother before she floated away
Sweet baby skin
Broken window latch
Your nail lash, your warm flesh
The only way I'll ever love is by force
I'm asleep in the chasm.
The only way I'll ever love is by force
I run from hell through golden aloe
Everything moves so slow

Walk just behind me
In my shadow
Walk just behind me
Never stray
The sun is setting
Mountains on fire
We're so alone here
Don't go far
Sing a lullaby, sleep now
It's just a dream, sleep now
This can't be real, sleep now
The starlight marks
The path of the fearful
The ice caves glitter
In the dark
They're coming fast now
Blood on the snow
He holds her hand
Shuts her lifeless eyes
It's just a dream, sleep now
This can't be real, sleep now
The cold invites, sleep now
Open wide the gates
Horns sound from the bay
Open wide the gates
Don't look back in vain
You are like a swan
Trapped in ice
Beautiful, strong
And now I'm alone
This can't be real, sleep now
The cold invites, sleep now

Look how far I've come today
I feel I could go forever this way
My back is strong, my legs are long
My coat is warm, my shoes not worn.
But it grows colder, colder still.
It grows cold, it grows cold, it grows colder, colder.
I mark my day on the widow's walk
I watch the sea, hear the sailors talk;
I pined away on my deathbed,
Can you blame me for the things I did?
You grew colder, colder still.
You grew cold, you grew cold, you grew colder (your memory),
You grew cold, you grew cold, you grew colder, colder.
I broke the trust I had with you;
I broke your heart, I wasn't true.
I denied myself of pretty things;
I lied to myself to go on breathing.
I grew colder, colder still;
I grew cold, I grew cold, I grew colder, colder still,

Midnight
Harvest moon
We'll catch the coach
Not a moment too soon,
My love. let's fly away from here.
Autumn blush
Your first touch
Indian summer begins at dusk,
My love.
Our love will never die,
Our love will never die.
Winter pale
Killing frost
The doctor says prepare for loss,
My love.
Let's fly away from here.
Steel ground,
Fresh grave,
They laid us together, we'll make our way,
My love.

I took the safe road, I took the easy road
It looked so safe and comforting
There wasn't any trouble as far as I could see.
Avoided the twisty road,
Avoided the unknown,
My daddy said that was the devil's way
And God don't work in mystery noways.
Though I keep on trying to believe that there's an end to all this pain
I just keep moving on, I can't stop to think too long, oh no.
Though I keep on trying to believe that there's a way to be set free
I just keep losin' hold of the things that once gave me relief.
Got married in the winter, gave birth in the summer
In five years' time I had five young ones
But there was something missing, there was something wrong.
One day my husband came back from town
Said honey, you better sit down
There's been another woman for all this time
She's my one true love, can't get her from my mind
Now I break my back from crack of dawn
It's midnight when I get home
There never seems to be enough to eat
And I listen to my children cry themselves to sleep.
Though I keep on trying to believe that there's an end to all this pain
I just keep moving on, I can't stop to think too long, oh no.
Though I keep on trying to believe that there's an end to all this pain
I just look in the mirror and I know I only have myself to blame.
I took the safe road, I took the easy road
But I learned there is no safety there

Oh mother
Oh father
You gave me lief
You gave me death
Oh mother
Oh father
You loved me well
You can´t help me now
There is no escape
Dark water all around
On the broken bridge
Revere is bound
A dead-end maze
Dark passageways
Synapse collapse
Reality break
It's morning
Twelve hours of sleep
You won't believe the hours I keep
A veil is placed before my eyes
I can't see myself
I can't see their lies
I'm buried in this bag of skin
With sham circuitry
Where do I begin?
Oh mother
Oh father
You gave me life

We´ll scour the ghettos
For the trash of the earth
Put em on the frontline
They won't be missed
Step into my crucible
Warm yourself in my crucible
Burn and die in my crucible
We'll bribe their grieving families
With the fat of the land
Spread distorted visions
Till they eat from our hand
The victims of the system
Are the first to be served
To propagate that system
They're meat in our mill
Cast into the futile battle
In the caste system
Of feudal lords
Crying from the
Bottom of the pile
In the voice of a number
We're paragons of virtue
And you are the same
When you die in our turnstile

Fixed bayonets in the crisp autumn air
And I have to wonder why I don't even care
Scarlet epaulets and well-oiled hair
I have to wonder, really have to wonder
I invade the nations of the poor
But I can't fight my own battles, can't find a cure
I'll make them feel my rod till they can't take anymore
Can't find a cure, can't find a cure
A cry of war is heard throughout the land
But all I have is self-blame on hand
I'll crush their kingdom with a fistful of sand
Self-blame on hand, self-blame on hand.
I'll subject you to horror
I'll subject you cause I can't rule myself
I rule a nation
I rule a nation but I can't rule myself
Fixed bayonets in the crisp autumn air
And I have to wonder why I don't even care
I have to wonder why I don't even care

Watcher in the North
Regulus estate
Watcher in the South
Fomalhaut inverno
Watcher in the East
Aldebaran
Watcher in the West
Antares autunno
O Strega
Beneath the walnut tree
O Strega
Between the moon and the sea
Royal stars
Watchers
Four points in the star
Take me in your arms
Diana Dainus
Stag and Wolf
Kiss me, bless me

Heads on spikes, symbols on skulls*
Give me a reason to go on
The winter sky is full of ash
Broken homes, endless trash
But in the darkness he holds his son
He's all that's left, the only one
In the hills, the people hide
Join together, rot inside
In this land, the only hope
Is to die young, to not get old
But in the darkness he holds his son
He's all that's left, the only one
In the darkness he holds his son
There is no God, there is no love
Stripped to the marrow,
Their empty platitudes can't
Clothe them, feed them, heal them
They shuck them off like a thin, useless skin
That they've outgrown when hunger calls
How long must my journey go?

Oh, my Sally's done gone
And it's all my fault
Oh, my Sally's done gone
I never listened to a word she said
The purple hills
Seem to call out her name
Like the whippoorwill
I didn't listen to the warning she gave
I know there's no turning back
She tried to share
All her worries with me
But I was bowed down with care
I didn't see the trap I was in
One look in her eyes
Full of knowledge and pain
Oh, my pack of lies
Melted fast as my alibis
I know there's no turning back
And one day I'll be like a bird in flight
Floating over this valley so wide
And one day I'll be like a bird in flight

Mountains swallow you*
I separated myself from the earth
I separated myself from the sky
I separated myself from the crowd
Then I separated myself into two selves
O Lord
Then I turned myself against myself
I waged a war within myself
I turned myself against myself
I waged a war against myself

He´s a long way from home
And the shots cut him him down
I saw it in a dream I had last night
I saw the shots cut him down
And smoke all around
And his broken body lying in the sand
Though I know that my son died for a new day
And for all the millions that would pass this way
If God himself should knock on my door
I'd turn him away, say I ain't got no more to give
Well, the prince keeps us down
Steals our money for his crown
And the lies he tells us never go away
In the darkest night
We had to stand up and fight
It was that or die forever on our knees
The day he left for war,
Silhouetted against the door,

No one ever sees the puppet strings
No one ever sees the dark country
I know you're coming for me now
I feel you coming for me now
No one ever feels
The heavy weight of lies revealed
No one ever feels
The burning towns, the burning fields
I know you're coming for me now
I feel you coming for me now
I see that black horse coming now

Oh, it's good to die when you don't want to live no more
It's good to die when you don't want to live no more
When the happy moments of your life seem like tiny isolated islands
And the pieces of your soul are reaching up and choking you like liquid violence
Oh, it's good to die when you don't want to live no more

It's been 18 years in this prison cell
Separated from my best friend
He lives out in the men's wing
I send him pictures in my head.
How long must I suffer, Lord?
How much can I take?
How long must I languish, Lord,
Before they come take me away,
Take me away?
Gonna get free,
Gonna get free tonight.
I send the blueprints from my thoughts
And we plan our escape.
We ain't goin' nowhere without our friends,
So we tell them all the date.
Bessy's got the sledgehammer
And Marvin's got the screw.
Sally's got the heart of the guard,
She knows just what to do.
Gonna get free,
Gonna get free tonight.
We make our way in the moonlight,
It helps us on our way,
By the time they find our empty beds,
We're 18 miles away,
18 miles away.
Hold me tight.

Well met, well met, my own true love
Well met, well met, cried she
I've just returned from the salt, salt sea
And it's all for the love of thee
I could have married a King's daughter there
She would have married me
But I have forsaken my King's daughter there
And it's all for the love of thee
Well, if you could have married a King's daughter there
I'm sure you're the one to blame
For I am married to a house carpenter
And I'm sure he's a fine young man
Forsake, forsake your house carpenter
And come away with me
I'll take you where the green grass grows
On the shores of sunny Italy
So up she picked her babies three
And gave them kisses one, two, three
Saying, "Take good care of your daddy while I'm gone
And keep him good company"
Well, they were sailin' about two weeks
I'm sure it was not three
When the younger of the girls, she came on deck
Sayin' she wants company
"Well, are you weepin' for your house and home?
Or are you weepin' for your babies three?"
"Well, I'm not weepin' for my house carpenter
I'm weepin' for my babies three"
What are those hills yonder, my love
They look as white as snow
Those are the hills of heaven, my love
That you and I'll never know
What are those hills yonder, my love
They look as dark as night
Those are the hills of hellfire, my love
Where you and I will unite
Twice around went the gallant ship
I'm sure it was not three
When the ship all of a sudden, it sprung a leak

Subgenus lace
A chain-linked fate
The bees fly North
They can feel the hangman coming
Millions of machines
Never before seen
Unstitched, unraveling
Laid to rest in a dying world
Oh sister/brother, we're all burning high
I see white dust against the sky
This genocide rivals Dachau
In it's endless march of victims
They say the meek
Shall inherit the earth
But all I see are the helpless
Crushed by the wheel of man
They look away
They hide their face
Black market backwash
You see, in this world, money kills

Out on the quay
Trash for the day
I've got a feeling
I can't explain
Is it my future
Buried in my past?
All that I know is
It might just last
Black Joan
This begging life keeps
On dragging me down
I'm sick of small change
I'm sick of this town
Gotta find a new way
To make things right
Gotta write my own story;
It begin's tonight.
Black Joan
I hear my train a-comin
Black wheels like thunder rollin
Won't you help me pack my backs?
I'm leavin and I'm not comin back.
Dissatisfaction
Plagued me all long
But I never felt my lack

I know a path in the woods
Don't be afraid; they're only shadows
It's safer here when there's two
I thought I heard her calling
I thought I saw her falling
(I swear I saw her falling)
You look so levely in the shadows
I've forgotten why I ever angered
I see your eyes in the shallows
Her reflection lies in dirty water
And now her body's like an angel
Now her body's like an angel

They laugh at me, I'm all alone
They question me in jagged tones
They try to tell me what's true
And what's not true
As if they knew, as if they knew
They tell me how to feel
They tell me what I'm worth
They tell me how I've failed
All in their own words
They tell me how to love and how to get along
Passion's all right as long as it's not too strong
Here's how you play the game
Here's how you play your part
Here's how you go along
Here's how to neglect your heart
Fixed life
Like the stars

Don't tread the path of the enlightened*
Don't swallow their sugared seeds of poison
Their Da'ath leads to that black moonrise
Where the bodies stack up to the rafters
We touch the planets yet we're no closer to the heavens
We gaze at the stars from our pig trough
We map the silver depths of the ocean
While we bathe in the blood of the hated
Spare me from your kingdom
Born without a coin in my mouth
I still crawl toward the sun
Hands in the cracks of the walls of your mind
I dismantle your thoughts
Eating grapes in dens of steel
Buffing that old carnage wheel
Sitting safe on marble thrones