Fallen Leaves

I'll be waiting for you till the water has no tide Chokecherry, crabapple watery eyed I'll be talking to you through the blizzarding snow When the ice caps melt, girl, then I'll let you know I was born in the prairies in -35 Struggling for breath but I never felt so alive I've been living in exile on static time I've been covered in stars at the meridian line I'll be thumbing a ride back where the highway hisses Saving money for a myriad of country fair kisses Where jet planes trail over shadowy pines Indian arrowheads and amethyst mines I'll be on the railroad untying your wrists Trying to find a place where nothing exists Now these distant memories are such a long time gone Sometimes I don't even know how my feet carried me along How long, how long have I wasted my time? I'll be waiting here forever for the stars to align I'll be thinking of you in the those dizzying heights While I'm swimming drunk naked under northern lights And I'll follow the Rainy River back to Ontario Canada, oh Canada now what do I owe? I've been hayfevered daydreaming of bringing you home Darling come with me - I won't make it alone And it won't be long before the whole reel has run I've been 36 times around the blistering sun I'll be throwing lit fuses down those old dynamite holes I'll be turning over the engines in the wrought iron cold We'll be scratching out a living out of twenties and tens And I'll be trying to light a fire with a magnifying lens So if you need me I'll be forever gone I'll be making up the words as I go along And when the autumn winds blow through the summer trees Ill be threading yourself through the fallen leaves