| Colorado, Colorado
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| When the world leaves you shivering
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| And the blizzard blows
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| When the snow flies and the night falls
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| There’s a light in the window and a place called home
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| At the end of the storm
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| One night on the mountain I was headed for Estes
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| When the roads turned to ice and it started to snow
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| Put on the chains in a whirl of white powder
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| Half way up to Berthoud near a diner I know
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| And the light burned inside, shining down through the snowfall
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| God it was cold and the temperature droppin'
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| Went in for coffee and shivered as I drank it
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| Warm in my hands in the steam as it rose
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| Sitting there at the counter was a dark headed stranger
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| Me and the owner and him keepin warm
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| Nodded hello and I said it’s a cold one
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| Looks like there might be a blizzard tonight —
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| And «yes», said the owner,"
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| There’s a big storm on the mountain
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| Good thing we’re open, we could be here for hours
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| There’s nothing for miles and it’s too late to get to Denver
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| Better not try for the summit tonight"
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| And the snow fell
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| And the night passed
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| And I talked to the strangers
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| While the blizzard blew
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| Me and the stranger, you know I don’t talk to strangers
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| I’m a private sort of person but a blizzard is a blizzard
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| And somehow I found myself saying you’d left me
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| Tellin' him everything I wanted to say to you
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| You know how it is when you can talk to a stranger
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| Someone your quite sure you’ll never see again —
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| Soon we were laughin', and talkin', and drinkin'
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| He said «you must know you’re too good for him»
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| And the snow fell
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| And the night passed
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| And I talked to the stranger
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| While the blizzard blew
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| The stranger said «Love it can cry you a river —
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| Me, I’m a loner cause I can’t take the heartache
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| And sometimes I’m a fighter when I get too much whiskey —
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| Here have a little whiskey, pretend you don’t give a damn —
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| My cabin’s up here on the side of the mountain
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| You can go up there and sleep through the blizzard"
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| I put on my parka, said goodbye to the owner
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| Followed the stranger through the snow up the mountainside
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| Woke in the morning to the sun on the snow
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| My car was buried in six feet of snow drifts
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| They dug me out, just the owner and the stranger
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| Sent me on my way when the snowplow had been by
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| And the roads were all clear and the sun on the mountains
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| Sparkled like diamonds on the peak to peak highway —
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| Then I knew that I would get over you, knew you could leave me
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| But you’d never break me
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| Colorado, Colorado
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| When the world leaves you shivering
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| And the blizzard blows
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| When the snow flies and the night falls
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| There’s a light in the window and a place called home
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| At the end of the storm |