This was a collaboration with Zmulls who wrote the lyrics. I provided the music, guitar and vocals and had the wonderful help of Jaaman on keys and piano, Jman on percussion and Bassic Soul on bass.

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I was reading these lryics and was moved by the story and subsequently wrote the music.

OUT IN THE COLD
Lyrics Copyright 2006 by Z. Mulls

(v1)

She hasn’t come home yet
The girls and I play in the snow
Temperature in the twenties
Like it was a December ago

Throwing snowballs and shrieking
Raising holy hell
We hardly notice
How far the mercury fell

(chorus)

Cause Out in the Cold
It’s warm
The temperature’s barely felt
Out in the cold
It’s warm
Enough that a heart can melt
When you’re with the ones you love
You can weather any storm
It’s warm
Out in the cold

(v2)

Amy’s halfway through fifth grade
Always got her face in a book
Kate, she’ll find dinosaur bones
If she finds the right place to look

They grab my hat and start to laugh
Playing a game
Putting it on the snowman
And calling him by my name

(repeat chorus)

Cause Out in the Cold
It’s warm
The temperature’s barely feltOut in the cold
It’s warm
Enough that a heart can melt
When you’re with the ones you love
You can weather any storm
It’s warm
Out in the cold



(bridge)

She comes home and apologizes for being late
Tells the girls to go inside and walks me to the gate
All of the tensions come flooding back
All the suspicions, and the lines of attack

(v3)

We review some arrangements
I leave before starting a spat
The snowman waves in the rearview
Standing guard with my hat

Every year they get older
New line are crossed
I wait out the winter
Fighting against the frost

(new chorus)

Out in the cold
Again
Surrendering by degrees
Out in the cold
Again
Enough that a heart can freeze
When you miss the ones you love
Every hour feels like ten
Again
Out in the cold