[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I'm stuck in this old city now, where living ain't no fun
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Where steel and glass and concrete cancel out the wind and sun
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And I'm thinking of last winter now, when we walked hand in hand
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In the trails of the Colorado Rockies
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The wind sang us a lullaby, the snow was thick as cream
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And icicles were chandeliers like crystals in a dream
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And the streams were strips of diamonds, and the fields were white as snow
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And a bear ate all our soybeans in the night
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Oh, Colorado's calling me
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From her hillsides and her rivers, and her mesas and her trees
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When blizzards snap the power lines, and all the toilets freeze
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In December in the Colorado Rockies
[Verse 3]
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We had time and space and freedom, we had love and peace to spare
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Though we ran out of things to smoke and say and eat and wear
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And the morning of the avalanche, the yeti kidnapped Blanche
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And he took her to his cave up in the Rockies
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Oh, Colorado's calling me
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From her glaciers and her canyons, and her badlands and ravines
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And infectious hepatitis was all that came to stay
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In January in the Colorado Rockies
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The baby didn't die until we burned up all our wood
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Considering we ate her raw, she tasted pretty good
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And the facsist health inspectors dug us out and mailed us home
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Except for Blanche, who wouldn't leave her mate
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Oh, Colorado's calling me
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From her mountains and her rivers, and her meadows and her trees
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They tell me I'll be cured soon, thawed and ready to return
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When it's April in the Colorado Rockies