La Paloma - Carrie Newcomer

Sit down here in the alley

Where no one can see you cry

Trouble dogs us like a shadow

Though I cannot tell you why

Life is a fine and fleeting moment

Bittersweet and hard as stone

I can’t change what fate has dealt you

But no one should walk alone

Fly Away La Paloma

Take my love when you go

Where no one can harm you

And there’s nothing you need

It’s not as far as we believe

Somewhere a door is opening

While another door is closed

Sunset wraps its shawl of color

From here to Mexico

There’s the sound of wings around you

Like the rustle of a skirt

Gone before you know it

All those tender little birds

Fly Away La Paloma

Take my love when you go

Where no one can harm you

And there’s nothing you need

It’s not as far as we believe

I dreamt I was walking

In an old familiar country

I thought I heard you singing

But I think I was just hungry

It’s so many years behind me

Yet there’s really no escape

No mater where we go

We still take our own landscapes

The full moon bows her head

And the she’s putting on her veil

A whippoorwill is calling

And mourning dove exhale

Smell the night jasmine blooming

Someone’s turning down the sheets

Forever opens up her arms

As the rain washes the streets

Fly Away La Paloma

Take my love when you go

Where no one can harm you

And there’s nothing you need

It’s not as far as we believe

Fly Away La Paloma

La Paloma

Fly Away