Boarding Windows in Paradise

Summer wind, got the windows down
Fireweed paints the sky
Yesterday I been lonesome
But today I feel alive, on this

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High country road trip
Way up in the clouds
There ain’t no place I have to be
But this moment here right now

Rollin’ down two eighty five
Headed Saguache way
Lost my gig in Denver
Now it’s on to Santa Fe

But I’ve lost so many times
And Gunnison is on my mind
Take the Cochetopa Pass on the Great Divide
See what comes my way tonight, on this

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I know I could roll either way right now
I could try to play it straight or make this work somehow

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Golden days before they end
Whisper secrets to the wind
Your baby won’t be near you anymore
Tender nights before they fly
Send falling stars that seem to cry
Your baby doesn’t want you anymore
It’s over
It breaks your heart in two
To know he’s been untrue
But oh what will you do
When he says to you there’s someone new
We’re through, we’re through, we are through
It’s over, it’s over, it’s over
All the rainbows in the sky
Start to weep then say goodbye

You won’t be seeing rainbows anymore
Setting suns before they fall
Echo to you that’s all that’s all
But you’ll see lonely sunsets after all
It’s over, it’s over, it’s over
It’s over

Moon’s shining baby, shining blue on the tracks
Another day is gone, it ain’t never coming back
The wind through my curtains says the sky’s gonna clear for a while

All day I’ve been looking, looking ‘cross the lane
Waiting for the nighttime to see you once again
Slipping through the fields, hurrying to take your hand in mine
And make hay while the moon shines

When will you be coming, coming over here
I’m peering through the shadows, wondering if you’re getting near
I long to hear your sweet voice, telling me that everything is fine
And make hay while the moon shines

I’ll meet you at the barn baby, meet you by the door
Hearts are beating faster as we hurry ‘cross the floor
From moonlight to the ladder, footsteps clicking fast as we can climb
We’ll make hay while the moon shines
And make hay while the moon shines

Something in the way you love me won't let me be
I don't want to be your prisoner so baby, won't you set me free
Stop playing with my heart, finish what you start
When you make my love come down
If you want me, let me know
Baby, let it show, honey don't you fool around

Just try to understand, I've given all I can
'Cause you got the best of me

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Borderline,
Feels like I'm going to lose my mind
You just keep on pushing my love
Over the borderline
Borderline,
Feels like I'm going to lose my mind
You just keep on pushing my love
Over the borderline

Something in your eyes is making such a fool of me
When you hold me in your arms you love me ‘til I just can’t see
But then you let me down, when I look around
Baby, you just can’t be found
Stop driving me away, I just want to stay
There’s something I just got to say

Just try to understand, I've given all I can
'Cause you got the best of me

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Keep on pushing me, baby
Don't you know you drive me crazy
You just keep on pushing my love
Over the borderline

Look what your love has done to me
Come on baby, set me free
You just keep on pushing my love
Over the borderline

You cause me so much pain, I think I’m going insane
What does it take to me you see?
You just keep on pushing my love
Over the borderline

Keep pushing me, keep pushing me
Keep pushing my love
(Keep on pushing my love over the borderline)
C’mon baby, c’mon darlin’, Yeah

I’ve got a wife and five little children
Believe I’ll take a trip on the big MacMillan
Oh, Saro Jane

Boiler done busted and the whistle done blowed
The head captain’s done fell overboard
Oh, Saro Jane

Oh, there’s nothing to do but sit around and sing
And rock about my Saro Jane

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Oh, rock about my Saro Jane
Oh, rock about my Saro Jane
Oh, there’s nothing to do but sit around and sing
And rock about my Saro Jane

Engine gave a crack and whistle gave a squall
Engineer’s gone to the Hole in the Wall
Oh, Saro Jane

Yankees build boats for to shoot them Rebels
My musket’s loaded, and I’m gonna hold her level
Oh, Saro Jane

Oh, there’s nothing to do but sit around and sing
And rock about my Saro Jane

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Train is movin’, the train is movin’
The train is movin’ down the line
Hear them wheels hummin’
If you ain’t seen it comin’
Get a move on, out the way, or be left behind

Pack your bag because it’s time, time, time
To pack it on up and get onboard
Yesterday has left the station
That train ain’t here no more

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Mayor of Topeka cut a ribbon on that day
He stood on that new track with pride
Filled with elation, but they could not put the brakes on
Fast enough to save his simple-minded hide

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Time don’t brake for the ones who don’t get on
She’s coming down that rail, she’s coming fast,
Get up and get a move on, let bygones be long gone
Ain’t never gonna catch up with the past

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Get onboard, hear that lonesome whistle
Get onboard, she’s crossing the trestle
Gotta take that ride, to the other side

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Seasons change, my love remains
Season’s gone, my love goes on

Don’t know what took you out to sea
Season of change, of falling leaves
And every question seems unkind
When this old heart won’t heed my mind

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I’ll go to fishing, come summertime
I’ll go to planting, when spring is nigh
I’ll spread the seeds, as well I should
When there is harvest, I’ll thank the good

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My melancholy won’t let me be
It’s always there, underneath
It may be true, those final hours
When I lay down, still dream of you

Will the keepers of the gate
When it’s my time, love me the same
Or will they judge my foolish ways
I did not follow, when the seasons changed

As every flower does decay
Every hour may be in vain
And if we answer to that call
Then I will love though I may fall

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He’s trying to look available
When he goes out, he don’t wear his ring
He says the ring’s unwearable
It just fits too tight, and it don’t mean a thing

Darlin’ do you recall that day
When I looked deep in your eyes
I put this ring on your finger
It slipped right on, ‘cause it was just your size. But now…

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On the nightstand right by your pillow
Well, that’s where I can see your ring now
With loose change you pulled from your pocket
And other things you don’t need around. ‘Cause…

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Ladies, I’ll tell you right now
If that gold band ain’t on his finger
Your ol’ man, he’s running around

Evenings on the back porch
With a guitar and a fiddle and a mandolin
Holding onto summer nights
Hoping that the bright moonlight
Will never end

Every year about September
Days are full of rolling thunder and heavy rains
Coming up from way down South
Tearing through and acting proud
The hurricanes

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But we were made to handle this
What is broken can be fixed
If it’s worth the love it gives
We’ll care for it

Most years we get lucky
‘Cause the hurricane shows mercy, passing gently through
Other times she ain’t so kind
Tearin’ up the coastline
Wrecking all we knew

Black skies turn to blue again
We open up our doors to see the ravaged coast
We pick up all the pieces
And rebuilding on the shattered dreams
We cherished most

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People say we’re crazy every year
That we should move away
Take shelter from the tempests and the wind

But I could never leave this place
Run away and play it safe
The storm would only find me in the end

Fall turns to December
Turns to spring and back to summer days with each sunrise
And we just keep on livin’ here
Boarding windows every year
In paradise