Is it time you fly away
Follow the sun?
Now it's darkness more than day
The hungry months have come
Is it time you fly away
Before the ice and snow?
If you should decide to stay
Then you should know, (you can)
Come into the arms
Of the evergreen
When the birch
And the willow are tired and lean
When the ground
Is hard and the wind is mean
Come into the arms of the evergreen
Is it time to close your eyes
Find a place beneath?
When your mother's lullabies
Are singing you to sleep
Is it time to close your eyes
Time for you to slow?
If you need a place to hide
Then you should know, (you can)
Come into the arms of the evergreen
When the birch and the willow
Are tired and lean
When the ground is hard
And the wind is mean
Come into the arms of the evergreen