I am a figure dressed in white A mournful body by the riverside That even I don't recognise That even I don't recognise And I am young as I am old And your ancient faces they are hollow Older than I could ever be, oh Older than me And oh the cold bites at my skin and I Pray the sunlight will let itself in and I I'll drown before you learn to swim For it is darkness that I am bathed in And oh, the setting sun at night Paints my body gold from ghostly white And I am a ghost for tonight And I shall be a ghost for many nights And oh, the cold bites at my skin and I Pray the sunlight will let itself in and I I'll drown before you learn to swim For it is darkness that I am bathed in Give me sunlight, oh (oh) Make me warm, oh (oh) Take the darkness, oh (oh) Paint me gold, ooh (ooh) Give me sunlight, oh (sunlight, oh) Make me warm, oh, (make me warm, oh) Take the darkness, oh (darkness oh) Paint me gold Whoa-oh-oh-whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-ah Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-ah Whoa-oh-oh, ah-ah-ah-ah Whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ah-ah Ah, ah, ah And oh the cold bites at my skin and I Pray the sunlight will let itself in and I Oh the cold bites at my skin and I Pray the sunlight will let itself in and I I will drown And I will drown