Where the Heart Is
                       Copyright 2008 Naomi Rivkis

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My grandmother came from Odessa
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Walked across Europe to get to the sea
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She sailed the Atlantic in winter
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To the place where my grandfather said he would be.

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She pushed through the crowd at the dockside to reach him
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He swung her up high and he kissed her sweet smile
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He said as they walked through the loud foreign city,
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"This may become home, but it could take a while."


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    But she just shook her head at the strain in his eyes,
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    Said, "I followed my heart, and the heart never lies.
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    I will never forget how I loved my own land
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    But we'll make a true home in the place where we stand
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    Because home is wherever you reach for my hand."

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I was born to the lights of Manhattan,
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Knew the pulse of the subway too deeply to speak
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Your spirit was bound to the mountains
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And I loved you before I had known you a week.


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I drove all alone through the high plains and prairies
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To the warmth and the wit that had struck my heart through;
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You smiled as you showed me your forests and flowers
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But your eyes held the question my grandfather knew.


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    But I said, "I will learn to love wide western skies
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    For I followed my heart and the heart never lies.
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    I will never forget how I love my own land
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    But I'll make a true home in the place where I stand
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    Because home is wherever you reach for my hand."

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The water kept rising unnoticed,
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A little bit higher and wilder each year
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Came a time when we couldn't deny it:
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That our home in the hills would too soon disappear

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We saved all our money and spoke to the children,
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Signed up with these colonists heading for space,
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Now we hold the kids high: a last look out the window,
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You watch the Earth fade through the tears on your face


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    And I can't speak illusions, the pain to disguise
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    But we've brought our hearts here and the heart never lies.
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    We will never forget how we love our own land
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    But our family's together through starlight or sand
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    And home is wherever we reach for your hand.



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