We started arguing on the onramp Of Interstate 90 West As the engine strained to recollect fifth gear And I struggled to keep my head For the last month, Id been scratching your name With my fingernail in the frost Of the windowpane in the attic of a friends Id been staying since you broke it off Then out of the blue, you asked me on a date To a hot springs out of town And on Valentines Day, no less, I knew I should But I could never turn you down Now Im sitting in the steam with a cold gin and tonic Sweating in a plastic cup Trying to make sens of your sudden change of heart If thats what it rally was You swept in like a Chinook wind Blowing warm through the woods A pulse of June in the middle of the winter Can do more harm than good You thawed out my resistance And I let you back in You were unseasonably warm As a Chinook wind Watching the snow crying off the pine trees Standing around the edge of the pool Their bare green needles naked in the cold I started to feel like a fool Maybe I was dying in the high Himalaya In the final stages of undress Just then I felt you swim up behind me like a reaper And softly kiss the back of my neck You swept in like a Chinook wind Blowing warm through the woods A pulse of June in the middle of the winter Can do more harm than good You thawed out my resistance And I let you back in You were unseasonably warm As a Chinook wind
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