It shields us from the elements In a merciless Ice storm We'll stockpile all our body heat And at night it keeps us warm And I brought you a Christmas orange And you danced like sugar plums In the frozen arctic tundra Underneath the frosty sun Your heart's a pine prisonyard, Lost in a silver snow globe, A lonely cabin in the north pole Surrounded by white crows And there's no need to try to and escape There's no place to go We should build an igloo for two, And live like the Eskimos Glaciers roll on top of us And destroy our frozen home, Next time we'll build a better one Like a geodesic dome And I hibernate in icy caves And in the spring I'm dead; I died in that frozen grave And here's what my stone read