[Verse 1]

I hate to make a fuss

But I can't get a bus

It's late and I don't know the way

These icy winds are blowing in

I feel the chill is here to stay

It's true, I have no truck

With you, Canuck

So why do you leave me in the cold?

I'm coming from the present

You're fighting battles of old

[Chorus]

The sun is setting where the sun it never set

Now is the time to raise my head above the parapet

And say "Put your empire where the sun it never shines"

Maybe I'm being rash, maybe it's the wine

But I'm done with being held at the barrel of a gun

Must you put that thing on the table?

Let what's lost, be lost and what's won, won

[Verse 2]

Old animosities

Have sailed across the sea

And now they're sitting next to me

Can't we set them aside

If just for one night?

[Chorus]

The sun is setting where the sun it never set

Now is the time to raise my head above the parapet

And say "Put your empire where the sun it never shines"

Maybe I'm being rash, maybe it's the wine

But I'm done with being held at the barrel of a gun

Must you put that thing on the table?

Let what's lost, be lost and what's won, won

[Outro]

I don't care if it leaves us out in the cold

It can't get any frostier than this