To all things housed in her silence 
 Nature offers a violence 
 The bear that keeps to his own line 
 The wolf that seeks always his own kind 
 The world that hardens as the harsher winter holds 
 The parent forced to eat its young before it grows 
    Every bird, gone unheard 
 Starving where the ground has froze 
 The winter Sun rise, red on white 
 Like blood upon the snow 
 Like blood upon the snow   
 The ground walked here is a wonder 
 It ceases never to hunger 
 And all things nature's given 
 She takes all things back from the living   
 I've walked the earth and there are so few here that know 
 How dark the night 
 And just how cold the wind can blow 
 I've no more hunger now to see where the road will go 
 I've no more kept my warmth 
 Than blood upon the snow   
 Blood upon the snow 
 Blood upon the snow 
 Blood upon the snow   
 It's not my arms that will fail me 
 But this world takes more strength than it gave me 
 The trees deny themselves nothing that makes them grow 
 No rain fall, no sunshine 
 No blood upon the snow   
 Blood upon the snow 
 Blood upon the snow 
 Blood upon the snow   
 To all things housed in her silence 
 Nature offers a violence