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It was years until the winter got so coldThat the surface of the river frozeIt lay so still you'd swear it was asleepYet swift dark water moved beneathThe animals were fooled and ran their bestAcross the ice till one was leftA bear who knew his size and had to waitUntil his friends has reached the other bankAnd when they turned and saw him looking poorlyThey thought he was scared and beckoned warmlyBut he just stood there as if made of stoneThey couldn't hear his little moansThen he slowly turned and walked awayAnd made like he wanted to stayAnd he wandered all aloneThinking all about his homeAnd the forest seemed to growWith a fear he'd never knownAnd when he felt it safe he wandered backAnd stood for a while on that bankAnd seeing that his friends had gone on homeHe stepped out on the ice all aloneCoz more than fear of death he could not bareNever seeing his home or friends againLetras de cancionesBut they were still there on the other sideThe falling snow had turned them whiteAnd he got half way acrossBefore the ice just opened upAnd in a second he was goneJust like he'd never been at allIt was minutes till they realized he was goneBut still they waited coz the bear was strongThey'd seen him tear down fences and a barnHe'd even killed a man who'd had a gunjust like the sun comes back aroundHe'd poke his head up any minute nowAnd so they waited all on through the night And still they hadn't moved when it got lightAnd winter slowly melted into springShowing little bones where the animals had been From Letras Mania