The Incredible String Band - Cold February lyrics

As I beside some winter's fire

Sat writing words strange and steady

Amongst my own internal choir

Came voices to my mind unready

Of those who died on either side

While friends cry o're their bones unburied

Go sighing through the north east winds

These cold days of February

Some clerk with papers and his pen

Some banker with his poison pity

Some captain careless of his men

These fan the flames that maim the cities

And bigots in the name of Christ

By thorny paths obscure and muddy

Can fear to roam through years of cold

Bewailing how their hands are bloody

Whether they were from here or there

Their race and place I would not be heeding

The men who caused such bitterness

If hearts they have let their hearts be bleeding

Who neither for age nor the young child

Would turn the shot of the arms they carried

Go bear the guilt a weary ways

For the cold days of February