Rexroths Daughter

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[Verse 1]
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Coldest night of the winter, working up my farewell
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In the middle of everything under no particular spell
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I am dreaming of the mountains where the children learn the stars
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Clouds roll in from Nebraska, dark chords on a big guitar
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My restlessness is long gone, I stand here like an old jack pine
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But I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter, a friend of a friend of mine
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Friend of a friend of mine


[Verse 2]
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I can't believe your hands and mouth, did all that to me
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Are so daily naked, for all the world to see
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That thunderstorm in Michigan, I never will forget
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We shook right with the thunder, with the pounding rain got wet
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Where did you turn when you turned from me, with your arms across'd your chest
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Oh I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter, I saw her in the great northwest
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The great northwest


[Verse 3]
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Would she have said it was the wrong time, if I had found her then
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I don't want too much, a field across the road and a few good friends
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She used to come and see me, but she was always there and gone
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Even the very longest love don't last very long
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She'd stand there in my doorway, smoothing out her dress
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And say "this life is a thump-ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess"
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Such a mess


[Verse 4]
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I wanted to get to know you, but you said you were shy
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I would have followed you anywhere but hello rolled into goodbye
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I just stood there watching, as you walked along the fence
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Beware of them that look at you as an experience
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You're back out on the highway, with your poems of city heat
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And I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter, here on my own side street
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On my old side street


[Verse 5]
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The murderer who lived next door, seemed like such a normal guy
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If you try to follow what they shove at us, you run out of tears to cry
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I heard a man speak quietly, I listened for a while
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He spoke from his heart to my woe and then he bowed and smiled
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What is real but compassion, as we move from birth to death
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Oh I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter, and I'm running out of breath


[Verse 6]
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Spring'll come back I know it will, and it will do its best
                                Em
So useful so endangered, like a lion or a breast
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I think about my children, when I look at any child's face
                                    Em
And pray that we will find a way to get with all this amazing grace
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It's so cold out there tonight, so stormy I can hardly see
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And I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter, and I guess I always will be
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I always will be