Red Blooms - Calexico

When the fists of winter fly

Driving bones into the snow

Blackened frostbitten nights

Vodka running dry

The statues cloaked in white

Migrants from museums

Losing all the feeling now that

Sunrise is outlawed

Strangers plant themselves

Down in the cold hard ground

Later when the harvest thaws

Snow drops will be in bloom

Crossed out on city maps

Prospekt Mira reveals

Shadows drinking antifreeze

Neath the underpass

Ordered once a gulag’s march

Now cities send the call

Falling from the rooftops fast

And frozen against the wall

Where strangers plant themselves

Dead souls of the underground

When February thaws

Snow drops will be in bloom again

Bloom again, bloom again

Bloom again, bloom again

Red blooms, red blooms