This hot day suddenly turned so cold In its gusts I am enveloped In my pocket I have these photographs That have never been developed I picked the last ripe fruit yesterday My boss said, Well, youll be on your way. But I didnt save enough to Get back to California yet And when the cold wind tugs my shoulder Tries to pull me where it hides I see you standing over all the summer Flowers that have died Take me in, hold me close Winters coming like a ghost That I can see on the horizon Stealing the green from all the trees And myself, I feel me stripped Bare and empty like the wind And you can clothe me in nothing but your love If you want to try it out San Diego winters just a cooler shade of summer You have to go Up to the mountains for a flake of snow Failing life and failing love I left there fleeing pictures of A world I was too familiar with to know And I met you by a maple tree Out by the railroad tracks And I cherish all your kisses And your hands upon my back Take me in, hold me close Winters coming like a ghost That I can see on the horizon Stealing the green from all the trees And myself, I feel me stripped Bare and empty like the wind And you can clothe me in nothing but your love If you want to try it out And I am ragged, I am just a dusty traveler Can you polish off this rough and quarried Stone that is my heart? I will do the same for you Well make it through this winter Even if it is the coldest one on these newspapers charts Ill take you in, hold you close I know the thing you fear the most Is getting stranded, being covered by the ever growing snow Ill keep you warm til the spring When the world wakes up again Ill take you in, leaves are falling Ill hold you close, snow is coming Ill take you in And you can clothe me in nothing but your love
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