Testo di Rexroth's Daughter

Coldest night of the winter working up my farewell In the middle of everything under no particular spell I am dreaming of the mountains where the children learn the stars Clouds roll in from nebraska dark chords on a big guitar My restlessness is long gone I would stand here like an old jack pine But I'm looking for rexroth's daughter the friend of a friend of mine I can't believe your hands and mouth did all that to me Are so daily naked for all the world to see That thunderstorm in michigan I never will forget We shook right with the thunder & with the pounding rain got wet Where did you turn when you turned from me with your arms across your chest I am looking for rexroth's daughter I saw her in the great northwest Would she have said it was the wrong time if I had found her then I don't want too much a field across the road and a few good friends She used to come & see me but she was always there & gone Even the very longest love does not last too long She'd stand there in my doorway smoothing out her dress & say "this life is a thump-ripe melon--so sweet and such a mess" The murderer who lived next door seemed like such a normal guy-- If you try to follow what they shove at us you run out of tears to cry I heard a man speak quietly I listened for a while He spoke from his heart to my woe & then he bowed & smiled What is real but compassion as we move from birth to death I am looking for rexroth's daughter & I'm running out of breath Spring will come back I know it will & it will do its best So useful so endangered like a lion or a breast I think about my children when I look at any child's face & pray that we will find a way to get with all this amazing grace It's so cold out there tonight so stormy I can hardly see & I'm looking for rexroth's daughter & I guess I always will be