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.''
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Where the  wind takes us  next year no  turtle can  tell,
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But we'll  still be at  home come high water or  hell,
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Because  home is wher ever you  carry your  shell.