Windward
Lyrics Copyright 2015 Steve Savitzky; 
  \ttto  ``Where the Heart Is'' by Naomi Rivkis

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My grandmother came from Odessa
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Left on the wings of a wild winter storm.
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She swam the Atlantic in winter
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To a place where her eggs would be sheltered and warm.

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She pushed through the crowd at the beachhead to lay them
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Crawled back to sea with a satisfied smile;
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She said as she swam through the warm Caribbean,
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``Now this is my home, well at least for a while.''


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    And she told her new friends with a laugh in her eyes,
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    Said, ``I followed my heart, and the heart never lies.
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    And where the wind takes me no turtle can tell,
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    But I'm always at home in the seas where I dwell,
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    Because home is wherever I carry my shell.''

      Am          Dm           Am
I was born within sight of Manhattan,
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Knew the scent of the Hudson too deeply to speak
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You swam Puget Sound with the salmon
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And I loved you before I had known you a week.


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I'd swum round Cape Horn on my way to Alaska
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We met off Vancouver as I paddled through;
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You smiled as you showed me your islands and beaches
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But your eyes held the question my Grandma's friends knew.


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    But I said, ``I love travel as much as your eyes,
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    So I'll follow my heart and the heart never lies.
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    And where the wind takes me no turtle can tell,
            Am        Dm                       Am
    But I'm always at home in the seas where I dwell,
            Am          Dm     F        Am
    Because home is wherever I carry my shell.''

    Am         Dm        Am
The water kept rising unnoticed,
                        Dm          Am
A little bit warmer and wilder each year
                    Dm         Am
Came a time when we couldn't deny it:
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That the beach we called home would too soon disappear.

         Am          Dm          Am
So we'll spend a few decades and visit our children,
                     Dm                       Am
They're swimming the seas from New Zealand to Nome.
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We will leave with the tide, let the waves take us windward,
         Dm      F                      Am
But whereever we wander we'll always be home.


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    And we've spread our descendents, as wide as the skies,
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    And we've followed our hearts, for the heart never lies.
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    Where the wind takes us next year no turtle can tell,
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    But we'll still be at home come high water or hell,
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    Because home is wherever you carry your shell.



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