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When I was nineteen I threw my stuff in the car, headed up the Rockies, took a job at this bar, sellin beer to the locals and just barely gettin by all the tips from the rich kids their own daddys dime.
A nostalgic country song about love and heartbreak in the mountain town of Telluride.
Key Takeaways
- Telluride serves as a symbolic backdrop for love and personal growth.
- The song captures the bittersweet nature of fleeting romance.
- Youthful optimism contrasts with the eventual heartbreak.
- Memories of love remain vivid despite the relationship's end.
- The natural setting enhances the emotional tone of the story.
What the video covers
- The narrator recounts moving to Telluride at nineteen to work in a bar and live modestly.
- He meets a woman whose arrival changes his world and brings new life to his days.
- They spend a passionate winter together in a cozy mountain cabin.
- Their time is filled with desire, secrets, laughter, and happiness.
- The relationship ends heartbreakingly, likened to a movie scene.
- The narrator is left alone with a 'frozen heart' in the snowy town.
- Telluride is portrayed as a sleepy, snowy mountain town central to the story.
- The song evokes themes of youthful adventure, love, loss, and memory.
- The emotional highs and lows are tied closely to the setting and seasons.
- The narrator cherishes the memories despite the painful goodbye.
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But from the moment she walked in one night, I knew I'd be alright in
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Telluride, snow fallin down, I was wakin up in that sleepy little town.
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In her eyes my world came so alive, I never will forget the moment she arrived in Telluride.
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We spent that whole winter tangled up by a fire, castin shadows on the cabin wall, drownin in desire, confessing all our secrets and laughin out loud, so high upon that mountain I thought we'd never come down.
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It was a dream we were livin in, I was the happiest I ever been.
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Telluride, snow fallin down, wakin up with her in that sleepy little town.
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In her eyes my world was so alive, I never will forget all those sleepless nights in Telluride.
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Oh... yeah.....
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It ended just like a movie scene and I had to play the part of the lover who stood there and watched her leave me with a frozen heart..
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in Telluride, snow fallin down standin there alone in that sleepy little town,
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in her eyes my world came so alive, I never will forget the day she said goodbye...
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Telluride, snow fallin down I was wakin up in that sleepy little town.
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In her eyes my world came so alive, I never will forget all those sleepless nights in Telluride.....
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oh Telluride.....
Topics:TellurideJosh Gracincountry musiclove storyheartbreakmountain townromancesnownostalgiawinter
