to take you in is to feel a great great sadness is to hold a great hope heavy in my chest to let you go is to lose my balance is to fall into silence and wait wait wait oh sleeper my keeper of days we can t get back the spring once it s passed when love was born in colder times our vows in ice and steel oh sleeper you kissed me for luck but did you know me from the morning oh sleeper my keeper of days we can t get back the spring once it s passed to take you in is to feel a great great sadness is to hold a great hope so i ll make you a bed in a barren field cause we can t get back the spring once it s passed