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Take Me Back To Rainier

Five o-clock this morning and I?m woken from my sleep
I pull my shirt over my head and my shoes upon my feet
Staring at my cornflakes or are they staring at me
I hold the paper but my eyes are fixed on the TV
Seven days of rain but there?s snow on higher hills
Where can I go?

Standing in a downpour and the bus it pulls up late
Graffiti carved into the seat and the words I contemplate
A large man with a worn gray coat his hair sticks to his head
When he turns and smiles at me his breath could wake the dead
He says, ?Can you believe it, the weather that we?ve had??
I think I can

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I remember meadows where the green was a smell
And the sky a flowing stream
And the clouds they were a place to dwell
My little boy and girl play there in my dreams
Take me back to Rainier

They?re starving in Africa their faces on the news
A woman dies in surgery and the relatives all sue
Hard time to be a man in a time like this
But some things are beautiful like my daughter?s goodnight kiss
My son has learned to catch a ball, he runs across the floor into my heart

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Where the song it lingers still
Summer buried under miles of snow
My campfire?s still warm
My children still play
Take me back to Rainier

And so things are different now and still they are the same
My mind is turned to beauty in the midst of all the pain
Some day when the clock turns back we?ll waken from this sleep
My heart dream of a garden, the lion with sheep
And a voice that I recall, with eyes I?ve never seen, calls me home

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