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Watershed
by Kristina Stykos
from her album "Wyoming Territory"
I was coming around the corner
when I saw you and I froze
such a confused mix of emotion
from my head down to my toes
should I laugh, should I cry
should I try to make it
to the border by sunrise
should i run to your side
violate the order of a lifetime
we were young
and you were certainly more foolish than I was
but we would both go down together
in the tempest of our love
stolen nights, like a trance
filling us with warm anticipation
tender words, like a drug
spoken 'til our hearts were overtaken
muddy gap to rawlins
you were in trouble again
I held you, and I begged you
and you fooled me again
I hid you, and I fed you
and covered your tracks
I let go of almost everything
that might last
you were saddling the horses
you were saddling the horses
on that brisk november day
I can still remember
how you saw me
and turned away
oh my love, is it so
could it be you'd leave me
in this prison
can't you see, my youth is gone
please darling change your cruel
decision
I have taken all my sorrows
and the loss of you
in stride
I've held my head up
while silently I cried
where the watersheds divide
I've worked this land without complaining
raising up your only child
sheltering his heart
and never blaming
muddy gap to rawlins
I rode on back that way
surely there is something more
I can say
made it to the river
made it to the river
but the rain came harder still
I couldn't make the ford there
but I will
(c) 2013 Thunder Ridge Records/Kristina Stykos
made in vermont