Come in From the Cold [Live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 7/24/2022]

Come in from the cold

Is this just vulgar electricity

Is this the edifying fire

(It was so pure)

Does your smile's covert complicity

Debase as it admires

(Just a flu with a temperature)

Are you just checking out your mojo

(Oh oh)

Or am I just fighting off growing old

(Just a high fever)

All I ever wanted

Was just to come in from the cold

(Come in, come in, come in, come in)

Come in from the cold

(It was so pure)

Please come in (come in, come in, come in, come in)

Come in from the cold

I know we never will be perfect

Never entirely clear

(When the moon shines)

We get hurt and we just panic

And we strike out

Out of fear

(You were only being kind)

I fear the sentence of this solitude

Two hundred years on hold

(For my loving crime)

Oh and all we ever wanted

Was just to come in from the cold

(Come in)

Come in (come in, come in, come in)

Come in from the cold (come in, come in)

(When the moon shines)

Oh come in (come in, come in, come in, come in)

Come in from the cold

When I thought life had some meaning

Then I thought I had some choice

(I was running blind)

And I made some value judgments

In a self-important voice

(I was outa line)

But then absurdity came over me

And I longed to lose control

(Into no mind)

Oh all I ever wanted

Was just to come in from the cold

(Come in, come in, come in, come in)

Oh, come in from the cold (come in, come in)

(You were so kind)

Please come in (come in, come in, come in, come in)

Come in from the cold

(Come in, come in)

Oh come in, come in

(Come in, come in, come in, come in)

Come in from the cold

Come in, come in

(I was so low)

Come in, come in (come in, come in, come in, come in)

Coming from the cold