Windward

Lyrics © 2015 Steve Savitzky; \ttto ``Where the Heart Is'' by Naomi Rivkis

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My gr	andmother	came from Od	essa

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	Left on the	wings of a wild winter	storm.

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She	swam the Atl	antic in	winter

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To a pl	ace where her	eggs would be	sheltered and	warm.

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She p	ushed through the cr	owd at the beachhead to	lay them

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	Crawled back to	sea with a satisfied sm	ile;

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She said as she	swam through the warm Cari	bbean,

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``Now this	is my home,	well at	least for a wh	ile.''

Dm Am Dm Am

And she told her new friends with a laugh in her eyes,

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Said, ``I followed my heart, and the heart never lies.

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And where the wind takes me no turtle can tell,

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But I'm always at home in the seas where I dwell,

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Because home is wher ever I carry my shell.''

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I was	born within	sight of Manh	attan,

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Knew the scent of the	Hudson too deeply to	speak

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You swam Puget	Sound with the	salmon

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And I loved you bef	ore I had	known you a	week.

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I'd	swum round Cape	Horn on my	way to Alaska

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We met off Van	couver as I paddled	through;

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You smiled as you	showed me your islands and	beaches

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But your	eyes held the	question my Grandma's friends	knew.

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But I said, ``I love travel as much as your eyes,

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So I'll follow my heart and the heart never lies.

Dm Am Dm Am

And where the wind takes me no turtle can tell,

Am Dm Am

But I'm always at home in the seas where I dwell,

Am Dm F Am

Because home is wher ever I carry my shell.''

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The	water kept	rising unn	oticed,

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A little bit warmer and	wilder each	year

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Came a time when we	couldn't de	ny it:

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That the beach we called	home would too	soon disapp	ear.

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So we'll	spend a few	decades and	visit our children,

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They're swimming the	seas from New Zealand to	Nome.

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We will leave with the	tide, let the waves take us	windward,

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But where	ever we	wander we'll always be	home.

Dm Am Dm Am

And we've spread our des cendents, as wide as the skies,

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And we've followed our hearts, for the heart never lies.

Dm Am Dm Am

Where the wind takes us next year no turtle can tell,

Am Dm Am

But we'll still be at home come high water or hell,

Am Dm F Am

Because home is wher ever you carry your shell.