Oh, you speak the words, locked in my breast   But it's late for me, let an old man rest   One more black and tan on the barricade   To keep me safe from loving      Well, I close my eyes, close my eyes   To the cold flame of the Northern Lights   Well, I close my eyes, close my eyes   And I see you still in the shuttered night      What a newfound friend, his honesty   To see ourselves as others see   To see the shy boy inside the man   Is that all I am, just starved of loving?      Well, I close my eyes, close my eyes   To the cold flame of the Northern Lights   Well, I close my eyes, close my eyes   And I see you still in the shuttered night