[00:23.63]all the trees stood like skeletons
[00:28.80]silhouettes of spilled ink
[00:34.29]and the snows fell in sheets and got wrapped around our feet
[00:45.58]we built the fire evermore with winter beating at the door
[01:01.51]brother's eyes were getting heavier
[01:06.68]his bony hands cold and white
[01:12.21]and I could hear his ragged breathing like the wind along a knife
[01:23.71]there beside him through the night, in the hum of candlelight
[01:31.91]I no longer felt the time
[02:07.38]brother woke just after midnight
[02:12.65]and he didn't make a sound
[02:17.82]and as he climbed from out of bed with severed rings around his head
[02:24.99]his feet didn't touch the ground
[02:28.30]I could feel it then
[02:30.99]a tiny miracle
[02:33.37]so I followed him
[02:36.40]into the woods
[02:38.87]crossed beneath the trees
[02:41.66]but only I left my prints in tow
[02:47.15]he was afloat
[02:50.21]found a lonely tree
[02:52.93]and tied himself within its limbs
[02:58.68]and he said to me these words:
[03:00.99]don't you fear for me,
[03:03.80]I am where I'm supposed to be.
[03:11.91]and when I woke he was gone
[03:16.74]and I was wrapped in blankets on the lawn
[03:22.56]the sky was blue and my skin matched the hue
[03:27.06]and I could hear mother crying in your room
[03:32.97]from here on out I wear this face for both of us