Cold Silver Ring (B. Malkus) you build your shrine in the hallway so very blue green dear mother of God would you hang around and watch over these things no point in telling you how i placed that ring with care now you've gone and done the same thing in our home's chilly air i too am nestled down for a long cold one in the hopes that spring won't care but dakota calls and it hauls you oh so far away from here the roses on my trellis flow like you up through those plains not for too long will they hang on so who's the one to blame chorus: there was something on my mind that you can't realize what for as you just stand there cryin' about leaving me with your head pressed on the door i ain't back in line for the gossip still those words are bound to cling when there's this talk in town that i'm buring you yeah well you left me cold like that silver ring i'm just working on a building got so hard just to keep it clean but these benders 'round 'bout flag day they don't seem all that obscene how i poured it on last summer on st. swithen's day to rain on all those other ones from which you went away repeat chorus no point in telling you how we lost it on the way no use in chewing on what's frayed repeat chorus