[Verse]

Teeth chatter

Automatically

A beat clicking double-time

To the crunch of snow

An animal

Licks a beater

A Northern Flicker

Clucks a whimper

A beep goes off inside

Is it time

Or just a timer?

Decalcomania

Ironed on our hides by the

Scarlet fever-stricken

Two-bit hypocritical

Neo-Puritans

Turning on a dime

What are they?

A little more than kin

And less than kind

We live in the same

But we run on

Different time

[Chorus]

You are safe

You are sound

You are safe

You are sound

Ooh

[Post-Chorus]

I feel your frequency

Resonate at my core

Enkindle my extremities

Echo through my bones

Hiccup out its tones

[Refrain]

Ooh mm

Ooh mm

Ooh mm

Ooh mm

Ooh mm

Ooh mm

[Verse]

We face apocalypses every day

And fumble stricken phrases

We ball up to play

[Bridge]

When we feel forlorn

Just keep peeling those little oranges

They keep stealing, we keep peeling

Stuck on an uneven keeling

Every Great and Snowy Egret's

Speaking of my evening grossness

Every Evening Grosbeak's

Speaking of my great and snowy egress

Even if we deviate

Even if we deviate

The ice rink's set to counterclockwise

There's no exit till we skate

I lurch along the verge

A strawberryless frozen biscuit

My flimsy figure zero traps

A miraculous lemniscate

When the intercom comes through

I think I've lost my refound calling

Oh, Winter Tanager

You help me walk but you leave me crawling

You are a cardinal

You are a cardinal

And I should be so lucky

As to be a part of you at all

[Chorus]

You are safe

You are sound

You are safe

You are sound

[Refrain]

Ooh mm

Ooh mm

Ooh mm

Ooh mm

Ooh mm

Ooh mm

[Outro]

You bring the tropics to these chilly parts

The contrast shocks my system

Chilblains swell upon my heart